Senior Software Engineer

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, Nike, Wall Street Journal, Park Run, KFC and Kraft Heinz – 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 We're looking for a highly experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our dynamic, fully remote team. You'll work alongside passionate industry leaders in a flexible environment. This role offers the perfect blend of technically challenging work and supportive company culture to stretch your skills, influence engineering practices and help shape the way we build. What You'll Do Develop, Own & Maintain: Build and own robust software solutions using strong Object‑Oriented Programming principles and participate in rotational on‑call duties to ensure the team's systems reliability. Event Streaming: Contribute to big data solutions and message bus systems, particularly Kafka. Cloud Infrastructure: Collaborate on AWS services including EC2, ECS, SNS / SQS, RDS, Elasticsearch… you name it. Database Management: Apply SQL and NoSQL expertise to support scalable data solutions. DevOps Excellence: Work with containerization, infrastructure as code and deployment automation. Architect & Modernise: Set technical direction, facilitate architectural conversations and coach teammates through complexity. Design scalable systems and transform legacy systems with an eye for maintainability and thoughtful abstraction. Collaboration & Document: Work across disciplines and teams to shape roadmap, improve developer experience, and drive learning through code reviews, while championing technical documentation and design records that stand the test of time. Mentor & Motivate: Support other engineers through mentoring and example, encouraging a collaborative and inquisitive team culture. About You Mindset: Team‑first inquisitive problem‑solver with passion for continuous learning. Work Style: Independent and collaborative remote worker who values flexibility. Communication: Skilled in translating complex ideas into actionable strategy through documentation and conversation. Team Enablement: Natural mentor, proactive contributor to team rituals and someone who brings others along on the journey. Technical Mentorship: Model excellence through example while creating space for others to grow and contribute meaningfully. Ideal Qualifications Experience: 9+ years in software development with proven OOP commercial expertise (proficient in at least 2 languages with strong preference for C# and Java), experience with message bus systems (Kafka preferred) and microservices. Technical Skills: Deep acumen in system design, scalable architecture, cloud technologies (AWS preferred) and modern software practices. Strong background in infrastructure, DevOps and cloud technologies such as Docker, Terraform. Database Knowledge: Experience with both SQL and NoSQL systems. Missing a few skills? That's fine. We value curiosity, growth and the drive to contribute. What We Offer Ultimate Flexibility: Unlimited time off policy, flexible hours, fully remote, birthday leave and strong work‑life harmony support. Professional Growth & Learning: Work at scale with cutting‑edge technologies, regular knowledge sharing sessions and mentorship opportunities. Connection & Culture: Regular team and company events, office lunches, showcase opportunities with leadership and genuine relationship building. Support & Benefits: Employee Assistance Program, well‑being app, parental leave, home office setup allowance, salary continuance and life insurance. #J-18808-Ljbffr