Job Posting Title:
Product Software Engineer II
Req ID:
Job Description:
Messaging Fleet is responsible for maintaining the Unified Messaging Platform (UMP), a multi-channel (push, email, sms) marketing support system. The platform provides marketing with the tools needed to drive engagement, retention, and legal transactional messaging requirements through segmentation, targeting, scheduling, and a sophisticated decision engine that automates and personalizes messages for every user.
Responsibilities- Design core, backend software components for the Unified Messaging Platform and implement tier-1 microservices in Java.
- Implement asynchronous processes to run in the cloud for various data transformation operations.
- Lead the design & enhancement of critical services in UMP, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability. Research and integrate new technologies into the production environment to optimize core service offerings.
- Work on tech design for various initiatives and projects as per business needs.
- Provide technical guidance to junior team members, covering code quality, system design, and best practices in software development. Actively participate in code reviews, offering constructive feedback to improve code quality, system reliability, and performance.
- Collaborate with your squad, Product Managers, Designers, QA, Operations, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and articulate technical decisions and outcomes.
- Participate in Agile methodology and SCRUM processes such as Sprint Planning, Backlog grooming, Daily Standups, and Retrospectives with the team.
- Provide on-call support for critical services on a rotational basis.
- Own features/functionality and deliver projects end-to-end with high quality and robust architecture.
- Ramp up on new domains and technologies.
Basic Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.
- 3+ years of experience building internet-scale web or services applications.
- Experience in Java, cloud services, and management tools (e.g. Git, SVN, Jira, Basecamp)
- Excellent understanding of software development fundamentals
- Experience with writing unit, integration and functional tests
- Experience with standard CI/CD procedures & tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Spinnaker.
- Proven ability to integrate with service APIs and/or SDKs.
- Experience working in a modern, agile software team with version control & project.
Preferred Qualifications - Knowledge or certification with AWS services, including ECS (Docker), S3, EC2, Lambda, CloudWatch
- Experience with big data technologies & tools like Spark, Databricks, EMR
- Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure as code tooling
- Experience building scalable, fault-tolerant, high-uptime systems
- Creative and inventive problem solving
- Experience mentoring other developers
- Experience with UI frameworks (React/Typescript)
- Knowledge of JavaScript
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The hiring range for this position in New York, NY is $123,000 to $165,000 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.
Job Posting Segment:
PE - Streaming Backend
Job Posting Primary Business:
PE - Streaming Backend - Messaging & Audience Engineering
Primary Job Posting Category:
Product Software Engineering
Employment Type:
Full time
Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:
New York, NY, USA
Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:
Date Posted:
2026-09-22