Staff Software Engineer - Growth Platforms & Automation

Quince; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Quince is seeking a Staff Software Engineer - Growth in Palo Alto to build and operate production-grade marketing automation systems at scale, from campaign management pipelines and ads bidding infrastructure to creative generation tooling and experimentation frameworks — and to deliver measurable business outcomes.

You are the kind of engineer who thrives at the intersection of technology and performance marketing, with autonomy, high standards, and a bias toward durable solutions over quick

Qualifications

• Excellent computer science fundamentals.
• 8+ years of industry experience building and shipping high-impact software systems.
• Proven experience in growth engineering, including building and owning performance marketing tools, campaign automation pipelines, or ads optimization systems.
• Experience building and maintaining highly reliable distributed systems that operate at scale.
• Experience partnering with Data Science to drive performance marketing efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Own business critical end-to-end efforts on performance marketing initiatives, collaborating with marketing, product, data science and analytics teams to deliver high-quality tooling and systems.
• Drive technical design and architecture for growth engineering systems, including campaign management, ads bidding optimization, and creative generation pipelines.
• Collaborate across other engineering teams and the data science org to translate business requirements into actionable tasks.
• Define requirements with stakeholders and translate them into milestones.
• Define performance metrics and drive data-driven decisions across the growth stack.
• Identify and resolve systemic engineering gaps — reliability risks, performance bottlenecks, scaling constraints.
• Drive code reviews and contribute to architecture and design, ensuring durable solutions.
• Coordinate with leadership and team members to align on priorities.

Skills

CS fundamentals

8+ years experience

growth engineering

A/B testing

observability

Tools

Marketing automation systems

Ads bidding infrastructure

Creative generation tooling

Experimentation frameworks

Job description

Quince is seeking a Staff Software Engineer - Growth in Palo Alto to build and operate production-grade marketing automation systems at scale, from campaign management pipelines and ads bidding infrastructure to creative generation tooling and experimentation frameworks — and to deliver measurable business outcomes.

You are the kind of engineer who thrives at the intersection of technology and performance marketing, with autonomy, high standards, and a bias toward durable solutions over quick