Attentive is the AI marketing platform for 1:1 personalization redefining the way brands and people connect. Were the only marketing platform that combines powerful technology with human expertise to build authentic customer relationships. By unifying SMS RCS email and push notifications our AI-powered personalization engine delivers bespoke experiences that drive performance revenue and loyalty through real-time behavioral insights.
Recognized as the#1provider in SMS Marketing by G2 Attentive partners with more than 8000 customers across 70 industries. Leading global brands like Crate and Barrel Urban Outfitters and Carters work with us to enable billions of interactions that power tens of billions in revenue for our customers.
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager who can lead a team of backend engineers in building scalable systems that support millions of daily this role you will guide the technical direction of the team foster engineering excellence and collaborate deeply with AI data product and design partners to deliver impactful high quality products.
This role blends technical leadership people management and hands on architectural oversight making it ideal for a manager who enjoys developing engineers while driving execution and innovation.
What Youll Accomplish
- Lead mentor and grow a high performing engineering team responsible for building the backend systems powering onsite customer growth products
- Set the technical vision and roadmap for backend services APIs and data driven systems that power personalized onsite experiences at scale
- Partner closely with AI data and product teams to develop intelligent capabilities that improve performance and user experience
- Ensure the reliability scalability and performance of the systems that support customer growth and real time user interactions
- Drive best practices in design discussions code reviews architecture decision making and operational excellence
- Foster a learning oriented team culture that encourages collaboration curiosity ownership and continuous improvement
- Own delivery of key product initiatives balancing long term platform investments with near term business objectives
- Promote clean maintainable well tested code and high engineering standards across the team
Your Expertise
- 7 years of professional backend software engineering experience including at least two years managing or leading engineers
- Strong proficiency in one or more modern programming languages such as Java or Typescript
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems APIs and microservice architectures at scale
- Hands on familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS and containerization technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes
- Deep understanding of databases messaging systems or streaming technologies such as PostgreSQL Redis or Kafka
- Track record of building reliable scalable high throughput systems that support customer facing products
- Demonstrated ability to coach and develop engineers drive team alignment and create an inclusive collaborative engineering environment
- Strong communication and cross functional partnership skills with the ability to work effectively with AI data product and design teams
- A mindset rooted in ownership curiosity and a passion for building meaningful systems that drive measurable customer impact
What We Use
- Our infrastructure runs primarily in Kubernetes hosted in AWSs EKS
- Infrastructure tooling includes Istio Datadog Terraform CloudFlare and Helm
- Our backend is Java / Spring Boot microservices built with Gradle coupled with things like DynamoDB AirFlow Postgres and Redis hosted via AWS
- Our frontend is built with React and TypeScript and uses best practices like GraphQL Storybook Radix UI Vite esbuild and Playwright
- Our automation is driven by custom and open source machine learning models lots of data and built with Python Metaflow HuggingFace PyTorch TensorFlow and Pandas
For US based applicants:
- The US base salary range for this full-time position is $193000 - $250000 annually equity benefits
- Our salary ranges are determined by role level and location
#LI-MN!
Attentive Company Values
Default to Action - Move swiftly and with purpose
Be One Unstoppable Team - Rally as each others champions
Champion the Customer - Our success is defined by our customers success
Act Like an Owner- Take responsibility for Attentives success
If you do not meet all the requirements listed here we still encourage you to apply! No job description is perfect and we may also have another opportunity that closely matches your skills and experience.
At Attentive we know that our Companys strength lies in the diversity of our employees. Attentive is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities for all employees applicants and covered individuals regardless of protected characteristics. We prioritize and maintain a fair inclusive and equitable workplace free from discrimination harassment and retaliation. Attentive is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities. If you need any assistance or reasonable accommodations please let your recruiter know.
Required Experience:
Manager
Attentive is the AI marketing platform for 1:1 personalization redefining the way brands and people connect. Were the only marketing platform that combines powerful technology with human expertise to build authentic customer relationships. By unifying SMS RCS email and push notifications our AI-powe...
Attentive is the AI marketing platform for 1:1 personalization redefining the way brands and people connect. Were the only marketing platform that combines powerful technology with human expertise to build authentic customer relationships. By unifying SMS RCS email and push notifications our AI-powered personalization engine delivers bespoke experiences that drive performance revenue and loyalty through real-time behavioral insights.
Recognized as the#1provider in SMS Marketing by G2 Attentive partners with more than 8000 customers across 70 industries. Leading global brands like Crate and Barrel Urban Outfitters and Carters work with us to enable billions of interactions that power tens of billions in revenue for our customers.
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager who can lead a team of backend engineers in building scalable systems that support millions of daily this role you will guide the technical direction of the team foster engineering excellence and collaborate deeply with AI data product and design partners to deliver impactful high quality products.
This role blends technical leadership people management and hands on architectural oversight making it ideal for a manager who enjoys developing engineers while driving execution and innovation.
What Youll Accomplish
- Lead mentor and grow a high performing engineering team responsible for building the backend systems powering onsite customer growth products
- Set the technical vision and roadmap for backend services APIs and data driven systems that power personalized onsite experiences at scale
- Partner closely with AI data and product teams to develop intelligent capabilities that improve performance and user experience
- Ensure the reliability scalability and performance of the systems that support customer growth and real time user interactions
- Drive best practices in design discussions code reviews architecture decision making and operational excellence
- Foster a learning oriented team culture that encourages collaboration curiosity ownership and continuous improvement
- Own delivery of key product initiatives balancing long term platform investments with near term business objectives
- Promote clean maintainable well tested code and high engineering standards across the team
Your Expertise
- 7 years of professional backend software engineering experience including at least two years managing or leading engineers
- Strong proficiency in one or more modern programming languages such as Java or Typescript
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems APIs and microservice architectures at scale
- Hands on familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS and containerization technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes
- Deep understanding of databases messaging systems or streaming technologies such as PostgreSQL Redis or Kafka
- Track record of building reliable scalable high throughput systems that support customer facing products
- Demonstrated ability to coach and develop engineers drive team alignment and create an inclusive collaborative engineering environment
- Strong communication and cross functional partnership skills with the ability to work effectively with AI data product and design teams
- A mindset rooted in ownership curiosity and a passion for building meaningful systems that drive measurable customer impact
What We Use
- Our infrastructure runs primarily in Kubernetes hosted in AWSs EKS
- Infrastructure tooling includes Istio Datadog Terraform CloudFlare and Helm
- Our backend is Java / Spring Boot microservices built with Gradle coupled with things like DynamoDB AirFlow Postgres and Redis hosted via AWS
- Our frontend is built with React and TypeScript and uses best practices like GraphQL Storybook Radix UI Vite esbuild and Playwright
- Our automation is driven by custom and open source machine learning models lots of data and built with Python Metaflow HuggingFace PyTorch TensorFlow and Pandas
For US based applicants:
- The US base salary range for this full-time position is $193000 - $250000 annually equity benefits
- Our salary ranges are determined by role level and location
#LI-MN!
Attentive Company Values
Default to Action - Move swiftly and with purpose
Be One Unstoppable Team - Rally as each others champions
Champion the Customer - Our success is defined by our customers success
Act Like an Owner- Take responsibility for Attentives success
If you do not meet all the requirements listed here we still encourage you to apply! No job description is perfect and we may also have another opportunity that closely matches your skills and experience.
At Attentive we know that our Companys strength lies in the diversity of our employees. Attentive is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities for all employees applicants and covered individuals regardless of protected characteristics. We prioritize and maintain a fair inclusive and equitable workplace free from discrimination harassment and retaliation. Attentive is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities. If you need any assistance or reasonable accommodations please let your recruiter know.
Required Experience:
Manager
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