As a Senior Software Engineer in Quality Engineering at Attentive, you'll enhance quality initiatives by optimizing test practices, providing visibility into testing metrics, and integrating test patterns into CI workflows. You'll collaborate closely with engineering teams, advocate for best practices, and manage test data effectively.
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 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 Quality Engineering team builds a platform that enables a test-driven culture, making tests simple, fast, and effective for engineers. Our goal is to ensure engineers can confidently verify both individual applications and complex integrations with minimal friction.
In this role, you’ll collaborate with engineering teams across the organization, as well as executive leadership, to standardize and automate testing practices. You'll work closely with platform engineers to enhance test visibility and coverage insights, ensuring engineers have fast, actionable feedback loops integrated seamlessly into their development workflow.
What You'll Accomplish
- Constantly improve the quality of the project you are working on, both via code contributions as well as long-term advocacy for larger-scale changes
- Empower engineers and leadership with clear visibility into test coverage, stability, and effectiveness, enabling data-driven improvements to product quality
- Optimize test strategies to ensure engineers focus on high-value and efficient testing across unit, integration, and UI/E2E layers
- Reduce reliance on shared staging environments by improving test data provisioning, enabling engineers to write more isolated, deterministic tests
- Drive organizational adoption of testing best practices by leading workshops, writing documentation, and collaborating across teams
- Deeply integrate test patterns (JUnit, JMeter, Gradle/Maven) with our Continuous Integration platform to streamline workflows
Your Expertise
- 5+ years of professional experience with strong opinions and expertise in Java testing best practices, with a focus on scalability across multiple teams and services
- Ability to evaluate code quality, quickly assess unfamiliar codebases, and recommend practical automation improvements
- Expertise in test data management, including mocking, test fixtures, and data provisioning tools (WireMock, TestContainers)
- Experience with test observability, including dashboards, flaky test detection, and automated quality reporting
- Ability to balance trade-offs between reliability, coverage, and maintainability when designing testing solutions
- Deep knowledge of Java testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito) and performance testing tools (Gatling, JMeter, VisualVM, JFR, YourKit)
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, Kinesis, 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 PlaywrightOur automation is driven by custom and open source machine learning models, lots of data and built with Python, Metaflow, HuggingFace 🤗, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Pandas
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 $144,840 - $210,000 annually + equity + benefits
- Equity is a substantial part of the total compensation package
- 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.
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