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Senior Software Engineer, Lifecycle & Messaging Platform

$150K–$280K

Mountain View, California, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 11, 2026

Experience
5+ years of backend software engineering.

About the job

Designs and owns a multi-channel messaging platform for Nearby AI’s local services marketplace, including consent enforcement, deliverability, and engagement experimentation.

What you'll do

  • Build and operate messaging infrastructure across email, SMS, push, and in-app, including routing, scheduling, retries, and delivery tracking.
  • Implement consent, preference, suppression, audit, and access-control systems, and own deliverability.
  • Partner with data and machine-learning engineers on event-triggered engagement, frequency management, holdouts, and experimentation.

What they ask for

  • 5+ years of backend software engineering, including ownership of a messaging, notification, or lifecycle platform.
  • Operated a platform at millions of messages per month across at least two of email, SMS, and push.
  • Designed event-driven systems with idempotency, retry, and deduplication guarantees, and carried on-call responsibility.
  • Shipped systems enforcing consent or privacy rules; production experience with a major messaging provider or equivalent; proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, or TypeScript, plus SQL.

Nice to have

  • Lifecycle or growth engineering on a large consumer product; integrations with CRMs, call centers, or partner systems.
  • Deliverability troubleshooting at scale or experience building experimentation infrastructure.

Pay

$150,000 — $280,000 USD annual base pay

Tools

Twilio, SendGrid, Braze, Iterable, Customer.io, Go, Java, Kotlin

AI focus

Partner with data and machine-learning engineers on event-triggered engagement, including frequency management and holdout design.

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First seen Oct 27, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)