Staff Software Engineer - Marketing Tech

About This Role

This Staff Software Engineer role is responsible for defining architectural direction and making high-impact technical decisions for MarTech Systems at PayJoy. The position focuses on platforms that drive global customer acquisition, activation, engagement, and retention.

Responsibilities

• Architect and own PayJoy’s marketing-technology platforms, including attribution pipelines, tracking frameworks, lifecycle automation engines, personalization systems, and CRM/CDP integrations
• Lead medium-to-large, multi-team engineering initiatives end-to-end, including problem definition, architecture design, planning, risk mitigation, execution, testing, deployment, and ongoing monitoring
• Make high-impact technical contributions across complex distributed systems, unblocking teams and elevating system reliability, performance, and scalability
• Define technical direction, standards, and best practices for MarTech systems, driving alignment across Engineering, Product, Marketing, and Data
• Ensure operational excellence by establishing SLOs, improving observability, reducing incidents, managing technical debt, and maintaining high code quality
• Represent MarTech systems in cross-functional forums, communicating architectural trade-offs, risks, timelines, and business impact to senior stakeholders while influencing roadmap decisions

Requirements

• 12+ years of software engineering experience
• Ownership of MarTech platforms, distributed systems, or large-scale data pipelines
• Strong, hands-on experience in MarTech / Growth Engineering (attribution, event tracking, analytics, marketing automation, personalization, CRM/CDP integrations)
• Proven experience with Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) and Adobe Experience Cloud
• Experience with Salesforce and at least one lifecycle marketing platform (Marketo or Braze)
• Ability to design end-to-end architecture, define a technical roadmap, and turn ambiguity into clear, scalable solutions
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures, APIs, event-driven systems, and data modeling (AWS preferred)
• Strong technical leadership as an individual contributor
• Excellent collaboration with Marketing, Product, and Data teams

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent practical experience)
• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with ownership of MarTech platforms, distributed systems, or large-scale data pipelines.

Nice to Have

• Experience integrating CPQ / contract systems (DealHub, Ironclad)
• Experience building in-house personalization engines or CMS
• Exposure to AI/ML models for growth, targeting, or recommendations
• Background in fintech or data- and marketing-heavy environments

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits