Staff Engineer

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The Company

The Company

Marigold is a leading cross-channel marketing platform, with solutions for email, SMS, loyalty, and personalization, helping brands transform their relationships with customers. As the trusted partner behind the world's most recognized brands, including Air New Zealand, Chipotle, Hiscox, KFC, Kraft Heinz, The Atlantic, and more-Marigold delivers relevant brand experiences that cut through the noise and drive real impact. Marigold was born through a merger of industry-leading marketing platforms Cheetah Digital, Sailthru, Selligent, Liveclicker, Emma, and Campaign Monitor, and powers billions of customer interactions annually.

The Role

Staff Engineers float across engineering teams at Sailthru to architect and help execute on the technology roadmap, uplift engineering practices, and solve complex technical challenges. It’s a small group of high performance engineers who can operate effectively deep in the technical space of the product, whilst also operating at a high level talking with stakeholders from product, customer success and other parts of the business.

The role reports into Sailthru’s Principal Engineer but you’ll also work closely with the VP of Engineering in enacting Sailthru’s technical direction and vision. The role is a rare blend of being able to make a high-level impact while staying hands-on with code.

What You’ll Do

• Identify systemic technical challenges and drive their resolution by shaping the technology backlog.
• Plan, coordinate, and motivate teams to improve engineering practices across the organisation.
• Interface with Engineering Managers and other senior leaders and enable the Staff Engineers to engage on department-level aspects of larger initiatives.
• Looks for innovation opportunities between several teams with a willingness to experiment and to boldly confront problems of large complexity and scope.
• Propose technical implementations which support architectural changes that solve scaling and performance problems.
• Align technical initiatives with Sailthru’s commercial strategy, ensuring an optimal balance between innovation and business priorities.
• Plan improvements and features with a long term multi-year view.
• Incorporate modern industry technologies and patterns into technology strategy.
• Mentor and coach engineers, fostering technical growth across R&D.
• Lead and support delivery teams in making strong technical decisions, ensuring best practices in software development.
• Be part of our on call rotation as a second level escalation point for engineering.
• Interact with customers and other external stakeholders and ensure we can effectively enable teams to address customer needs.
• Ensure that teams are aligned on our longer term visions and goals for engineering.

This role requires both big-picture thinking and hands-on execution, ensuring Sailthru’s technology remains cutting-edge while staying grounded in real-world delivery.

Ideal Qualifications

We’re looking for top-of-class engineering talent.

If you're enthusiastic about constructing scalable and resilient software solutions, come be a part of our engineering team.

What We Offer

Seniority level

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Software Development

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