Staff Software Engineer, Onsite Customer Growth
Attentive · New York, NY
$205,000–$275,000from the description
Jun 30, 2026
New York, NY
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A staff-level backend engineering role focused on the architecture and technical strategy of an onsite customer growth platform. Day-to-day work spans designing distributed services and APIs, tackling cross-cutting reliability and scalability challenges, and partnering with product, ML, and data science teams. The role suits a senior engineer with a track record of shaping platform-wide architecture and developing other engineers.
Staff level · 8+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 650 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 240–850
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,499 (middle half $133,523–$210,499). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (4)
The JD lists Java and TypeScript as interchangeable options ('at least one modern programming language such as Java or TypeScript'); Java is emitted as the primary with TypeScript as an alternative.
Cloud infrastructure and developer tooling (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, relational databases, caching, queues, streaming) are all listed together in the requirements block as a single grouped requirement; each has been extracted as a separate hard-gate skill.
The role is hybrid (Tue–Thu in-office at the New York office), not fully remote.
The Staff seniority designation is well-supported: the JD explicitly titles the role 'Staff Software Engineer' and describes org-wide architectural ownership across multiple teams, which aligns with the Staff band on both the advertised and requirements dimensions.
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