About the Role
The Senior Software Engineer is a hands-on technical contributor within 7-Eleven’s Marketing Technology (MarTech) organization, responsible for designing, building, and operating services and integrations that power personalized, cross-channel customer experiences. This role develops and maintains APIs, orchestration and activation services, and platform integrations connecting MarTech's data, decisioning, and content capabilities to various customer channels. As a senior individual contributor, this role sets engineering standards, mentors other engineers, and helps consolidate fragmented capabilities into a cohesive MarTech platform.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, test, and operate backend services, APIs, and integrations supporting personalization, campaign activation, and content delivery across MarTech channels.
- Implement and maintain integrations across the MarTech stack (e.g., Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Contentstack, Databricks/Hightouch, Kafka event streams) to enable real-time, event-driven experiences.
- Contribute to the orchestration/activation layer that consumes models, rules, and audiences and delivers consistent decisions to owned and paid channels.
- Partner with data engineering and data science to operationalize model outputs and customer attributes for use in production decisions.
- Ensure engineering quality through code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and adherence to security, privacy, and compliance requirements.
- Reduce fragmentation and single points of failure by documenting services, standardizing patterns, and consolidating personalization capabilities under MarTech.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers and support estimation, design reviews, and delivery planning.
Requirements
- Bachelors/4 Yr Degree
- 5+ years of relevant work experience
- Cloud certifications (AWS or Azure) preferred.
Skills
- Strong proficiency in one or more backend languages (e.g., Python, Java, Node.js/TypeScript, Go) and RESTful API design.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS or Azure), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with event streaming and real-time data (e.g., Kafka) and integrating with data platforms such as Databricks.
- Working knowledge of MarTech/personalization ecosystems (e.g., Salesforce Marketing Cloud, CDP/identity, headless CMS such as Contentstack).
- Solid understanding of software design, testing, observability, and secure, compliant handling of customer data.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills across product, data, and architecture teams.
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Bachelors/4 Yr Degree
Benefits
- For a general description of all benefits 7-Eleven is offering in the US for the position, please visit this link.
- For a general description of all benefits 7-Eleven is offering in Canada for the position, please visit this link.
About the Company
- 7-Eleven is an iconic family of brands with over 86,000 locations, surpassing every retailer in the world.
- We revolutionize convenience, restaurants and fuel through cutting edge innovation — working hard to be the customer's first choice.
- 7-Eleven empowers our employees to "activate awesome" and make a meaningful impact in their stores and communities every day.
- If you're ready to grow, lead and make a difference, come join our team and help shape the future of convenience.
