Software Engineer II, Developer Experience

The Developer Experience team at Attentive builds tools and workflows to enhance engineer efficiency in building, testing, and delivering software. This role focuses on improving local development, testing environments, and integrating AI-augmented coding tools. The Software Engineer II will build and maintain internal developer tooling, partner with engineers to address friction points, and contribute to roadmap areas like AI-assisted workflows, ensuring engineering excellence across the company.

Must Have

• Mid-level Software Engineer (typically 2–4+ years of experience)
• Platform, infrastructure, or tooling mindset
• Experienced with TypeScript
• Experienced with Java
• Comfortable building and maintaining tooling, SDKs, CLIs, frameworks, or workflow automations
• 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

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive perks and benefits
• Health & wellness benefits
• Equity

About the Role

Our Developer Experience team builds the tools and workflows that enables engineers 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

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 $132,000 - $180,000 annually + equity + benefits
• Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location

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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.