Attentive

Software Engineer II, Developer Experience

Attentive • US
JavaTypeScriptPython Remote
Attentive® is the AI marketing platform for 1:1 personalization redefining the way brands and people connect. We’re 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 #1 provider in SMS Marketing by G2, Attentive partners with more than 8,000 customers across 70+ industries. Leading global brands like Crate and Barrel, Urban Outfitters, and Carter’s work with us to enable billions of interactions that power tens of billions in revenue for our customers.

With a distributed global workforce and employee hubs in New York City, San Francisco, London, and Sydney, Attentive’s team has been consistently recognized for its performance and culture. We’re proud to be included in Deloitte’s Fast 500 (four years running!), LinkedIn’s Top Startups, Forbes’ Cloud 100 (five years running!), and Inc.’s Best Workplaces.

About the Role
Our Developer Experience team builds the tools and workflows that enables engineers at Attentive to build, test and deliver software efficiently and confidently. We focus on the inner-loop of development—the part of the engineering lifecycle before code is merged and deployed. While recent investments have centered on CI/CD and post-merge automation, the next evolution of DevEx is about empowering engineers earlier in their workflow: local development, testing environments, and AI-augmented coding and review tools.

You'll join a small, senior team of platform-minded engineers who are passionate about engineering excellence and eliminating friction across the company. If you like building tools for engineers, this is the place to make an outsized impact.

What You’ll Accomplish

  • Build and improve internal developer tooling that supports local development, testing, and pre-merge workflows
  • Partner closely with engineers across the org to understand friction points and deliver solutions that meaningfully improve their day-to-day productivity
  • Contribute to roadmap areas like AI-assisted workflows, developer guidance tooling, and deeper integration into the coding loop
  • Maintain and evolve TypeScript, Java, and occasional Python-based tooling
  • Uphold and evangelize engineering excellence across documentation, testing, DX standards, and platform reliability.
  • Your Expertise

  • A mid-level Software Engineer (typically 2–4+ years of experience) with a platform, infrastructure, or tooling mindset
  • Experienced with TypeScript and Java
  • Comfortable building and maintaining tooling, SDKs, CLIs, frameworks, or workflow automations rather than customer-facing services
  • Motivated by improving the productivity, efficiency, and happiness of other engineers
  • Strong collaborator who thrives in ambiguous problems and seeks out feedback from internal users
  • Passionate about high-quality engineering practices, including testing, reliability, and clear technical documentation
  • What We Use

  • Our infrastructure runs primarily in Kubernetes hosted in AWS’s 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