Senior Software Engineer, Identity

Senior Software Engineer

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!), Inc.'s Best Workplaces, and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's Corporate Equality Index!

About the Role

Our Engineering team creates innovative product experiences that power personalized marketing at massive scale. We develop cutting-edge applications and systems that process 100s of billions of messages and events per year, enabling marketers to connect effectively with hundreds of millions of consumers. Joining our team offers a high-growth career opportunity to work with some of the world's most talented engineers in a high-performance and high-impact culture.

Our Identity team ensures that all the data Attentive captures across multiple sources is associated with the right person, critical to all downstream messaging and personalization. We use multiple strategies to maintain a robust Identity graph and are constantly experimenting to drive our capture and accuracy rates higher.

What You'll Accomplish

• Design, build, and optimize high-scale systems that accurately resolve fragmented customer identities across first-party and third-party data sources
• Develop advanced session enrichment capabilities to enhance anonymous and known user tracking, improving attribution and personalization
• Build core matching algorithms that power real-time identity stitching, device graphing, and unified customer profiles
• Collaborate cross-functionally with data science, product, and analytics teams to create flexible identity models that support a wide range of business use cases.
• Define and enforce data quality, privacy, and security standards for customer and session data across all ingestion and resolution pipelines.
• Continuously monitor, evaluate, and improve the accuracy, speed, and scalability of our identity resolution and tracking systems.

Your Expertise

• 5+ years of professional experience in software development
• Experience maintaining high-scale, real-time data processing systems
• Strong communication skills and a product-oriented mindset. Able to understand the "what" and "why" behind technical work, collaborate effectively with Product and Analytics teams, and translate business needs into scalable solutions

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 $180,000 - $210,000 annually+ equity + benefits
• Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location

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.