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Staff Software Engineer, Shopper Data Platform

Attentive· Engineering
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Hybrid (United States)$180k - $230kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

The Staff Software Engineer will provide technical leadership for high-scale data systems that ingest, process, and serve user profile data to support segmentation, personalization, and machine learning within Attentive’s Shopper Data Platform.

Responsibilities

  • Set technical direction and architecture for high-scale systems and APIs responsible for the ingestion, processing, storage, and serving of user profiles and attributes.
  • Lead complex, cross-team engineering initiatives across APIs, streaming infrastructure, data processing, and integrations, translating ambiguous product and business needs into scalable technical solutions.
  • Design and evolve foundational platform capabilities that enable teams across the company to safely and efficiently build on user-profile data, including subscription lifecycle management and new data-source integrations.
  • Drive architectural investments that improve the scalability, reliability, data quality, observability, performance, and maintainability of systems processing data at massive scale.
  • Partner with product, data, and ML teams to shape how user attributes and large-scale data processing capabilities support segmentation, personalization, revenue attribution, behavioral analytics, and machine learning.
  • Multiply the effectiveness of other engineers through technical mentorship, design reviews, architectural guidance, and engineering standards while remaining hands-on with foundational and technically challenging work.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant experience designing and operating backend or distributed systems at scale.
  • A track record of technical leadership on complex, multi-team initiatives, taking ambiguous problems from definition through architecture, execution, and successful operation in production.
  • Deep experience with high-scale data ingestion, processing, and streaming architectures, including systems handling large volumes of user, event, or similarly high-cardinality data.
  • Strong programming and software-design skills in Java or similar backend languages, combined with strong distributed-systems fundamentals across scalability, reliability, performance, and observability.
  • Demonstrated ability to make and communicate high-impact architectural decisions, identify systemic technical risks and opportunities, and balance immediate product needs with long-term platform health.
  • Strong communication, influence, and mentorship skills, with a track record of aligning teams around technical strategy and raising the engineering bar without relying on formal authority.

Skills

Required:Java (or similar backend language)Distributed systems

Benefits

  • health & wellness
  • equity
  • perks and benefits (as listed in the job description)
Last updated Aug 27, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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