Engineering Manager
Attentive
Software Engineering, Other Engineering
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Dec 18, 2024
Attentive® is the AI-powered mobile marketing platform transforming the way brands personalize consumer engagement. Attentive enables marketers to craft tailored journeys for every subscriber, driving higher recurring revenue and maximizing campaign performance. Activating real-time data from multiple channels and advanced AI, the platform personalizes content, tone, and timing to deliver 1:1 messages that truly resonate.
With a top-rated customer success team recognized on G2, Attentive partners with marketers to provide strategic guidance and optimize SMS and email campaigns. Trusted by leading global brands like Neiman Marcus, Samsung, Wayfair, and Dyson, Attentive ensures enterprise-grade compliance and deliverability, supporting trillions of interactions across more than 70 industries. To learn more or request a demo, visit www.attentive.com or follow us on LinkedIn, X (formerly Twitter), or Instagram.
Attentive’s growth has been recognized by Deloitte’s Fast 500, Linkedin’s Top Startups and Forbes Cloud 100 all thanks to the hard work from our global employees!
About the Attentive Team
Have you ever received text message marketing from your favorite brand with an incredible offer? Did you know that effective text message marketing is by far the highest ROI marketing channel? And did you know that customers are increasingly preferring to interact with brands through text? That is what we do at Attentive. We help the world’s largest brands interact with their clients at the right time and with the right message. Our platform powers more than 400 million messages per day, approaching 100 billion per year.
We’re building big things! Check out our tech blog here: https://tech.attentive.com/
Who we are
Attentive engineering helps brands send messages to shoppers where they are — online on their phones. We send millions of messages per day on behalf of our customers, driving engagement and ultimately revenue through text messages and emails that are sent at the perfect time. Leveraging our ability to scale, we guarantee delivery of messages that enhance marketing teams’ efforts in reaching each and every one of their customers.
The automated messaging org builds products that power bespoke, one on one conversations between our brands and their customers. We leverage machine learning models, generative AI, and related backend infrastructure to drive performant, personalized messages at scale. We’re moving quickly in order to take advantage of all of the advances in AI and we’re building innovative products to give our brands the upper hand.
As an engineering manager you will join our product based team in San Francisco to support and lead the development of new products on the Attentive platform so that our brands have access to bleeding edge enhancements that give them the upper hand in marketing their products to their customers. We’re looking for an experienced leader that gets excited about building high quality products with the latest and greatest technology.
What you'll accomplish
- Own one of our high-performing full stack engineering teams, evangelizing a culture of quality and product excellence
- Lead the buildout and enhancements of our AI capabilities, working cross functionally as well as with other engineering teams to bring new Attentive products to market
- Provide technical expertise and guidance on leveraging the latest trends in AI and building products at scale
- Partner with product, design, machine learning, and data science to balance building well designed products and shipping quickly
- Craft the team’s mission and roadmap to align with organizational goals
Your expertise
- 7+ years of industry experience as a software engineer or equivalent building SaaS platforms
- 2+ years managing a high performing team of 6-8 full stack engineers or more
- Experience working on systems at scale including event driven architectures
- Experience working with modern web technologies and frameworks such as React, Java Springboot, AWS, Kubernetes, etc.
- Experience building team roadmaps and setting ambitious goals
- Experience navigating product requirements for B2B customers
- Strong product mindset and demonstrated ability to work with product managers and design partners
- Prior experience with SMS/MMS technologies a plus
Our scale
- 8,000 brands powered by Attentive sent over 2.2 billion text messages over Cyber Week 2023 (Black Friday/Cyber Monday) representing a growth of 31% from 2022
- We sent 32 billion SMS messages in 2023, up 32% YoY. That’s an average of 87 million per day
- Our production cluster contains over 18,000 containers which serve 200+ services
- Our streaming services process over 80 billion events per month
What we use
- We use a wide variety of technology and we’re always looking for the best solutions to solve hard problems
- Our backend is Java / Spring Boot microservices, built with Gradle, coupled with things like DynamoDB, Pulsar, AirFlow, Postgres, Planetscale, 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
You'll get competitive perks and benefits, from health & wellness to equity, to help you bring your best self to work.
For US based applicants:
- The US base salary range for this full-time position is $214,400 - $285,000 annually + equity + benefits
- Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location
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Attentive Company Values
Default to Action - Move swiftly and with purpose
Be One Unstoppable Team - Rally as each other’s champions
Champion the Customer - Our success is defined by our customers' success
Act Like an Owner - Take responsibility for Attentive’s success
Learn more about AWAKE, Attentive’s collective of employee resource groups.
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 Company's 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.
