Senior Software Engineer

7-Eleven; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

7-Eleven is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and operate backend services and APIs powering personalized experiences across marketing channels.

The role collaborates with product, data engineering, architecture, and data science to turn personalization requirements into production-grade software while maintaining security and compliance.

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in one or more backend languages and RESTful API design.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS or Azure), containerization, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with event streaming and real-time data (Kafka) and data platforms like Databricks.
• Knowledge of MarTech/personalization ecosystems (Salesforce Marketing Cloud, CDP, headless CMS).
• Secure, compliant handling of customer data and strong cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and operate backend services, APIs, and integrations across MarTech channels.
• Implement and maintain integrations across the MarTech stack for real-time experiences.
• Contribute to orchestration/activation layer delivering decisions to channels.
• Collaborate with data engineering/science to operationalize model outputs.

Skills

Python

Java

Node.js/TypeScript

Go

RESTful APIs

Education

Bachelors/4 Yr Degree

Tools

AWS

Azure

Docker/Kubernetes

Databricks

Kafka

Job description

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.

The Senior Software Engineer is a hands-on technical contributor within 7-Eleven's Marketing Technology (MarTech) organization, responsible for designing, building, and operating the services and integrations that power personalized, cross-channel customer experiences. This role develops and maintains the APIs, orchestration and activation services, and platform integrations that connect MarTech's data, decisioning, and content capabilities to owned web, app, in-store, pump, CRM, and paid channels. The Senior Software Engineer partners closely with product, data engineering, architecture, and data science to turn personalization and campaign requirements into reliable, scalable, production-grade software. As a senior individual contributor, this role sets engineering standards, mentors other engineers, and helps consolidate fragmented capabilities into a cohesive, well-governed MarTech platform.

Key Duties And Responsibiliites

• 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.

Education And Experience

EDUCATION: Bachelors/4 Yr Degree

YEARS OF RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE: 5+ years

CERTIFICATIONS / LICENSES: Cloud certifications (AWS or Azure) preferred.

Specific Knowledge And 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.

This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by the individuals assigned to this job. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. Management reserves the right to amend and change the duties and responsibilities of this job to meet business and organizational needs, as necessary.

If an hourly or salary range is included in this ad it represents the range 7-Eleven in good faith believes is the range of compensation for this role at the time of this posting. The Company may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in this state. This range may be modified in the future. No amount is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable under the terms and conditions of the applicable policies and plans. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, long-term incentive compensation, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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