ActiveCampaign’s category-defining Customer Experience Automation Platform helps over 90,000 businesses in 161 countries meaningfully engage with their customers. The platform gives businesses of all sizes access to hundreds of pre-built automations that combine email marketing, marketing automation, CRM, and machine learning for powerful orchestration, segmentation and personalization across social, email, messaging, chat, and text. Over 70% of ActiveCampaign’s customers use its 300+ integrations including Shopify, Square, Facebook, Eventbrite, and Salesforce. ActiveCampaign scores higher in customer satisfaction than any other solution in both Marketing Automation and CRM All-In-One on G2.com.

As the fastest-growing SaaS company in Chicago, we are scaling rapidly to keep up with market demand. We are growing all of our teams and looking for people who share our values, deliver innovation frequently and join us in our mission to grow our customer base from 90,000 today to millions.

We’re looking for software engineers with experience building high-throughput, data-intensive applications in Java or other JVM languages. Our ideal candidate has built services within a horizontally scalable cloud architecture, but we’ll consider candidates with any experience. We value iteration, customer focus, and humility above all.

Recently, we've used Java in the following ways:

Scheduling, re-scheduling, and executing millions of jobs for our automation system

Reusable queue workers with tunable error recovery, backoff, and rate limiting

Replacing cron scripts with parallel-processed event streams

You can help us extend and scale our marketing platform. This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing organization that truly cares about its people and their personal development.

What your day could consist of:

• Build, test, and ship features confidently and with low friction through a modern GitLab continuous integration / continuous deployment pipeline
• Work closely with your autonomous, cross-functional team
• Teach as much as you learn
• Validate your designs by building performance and load testing tools
• Measure, optimize, and re-architect production systems as they reach their limits
• Work with engineers on other teams to design services and APIs that enable feature work across our engineering organization

What is needed:

• Relentless focus on our customer’s experience
• Experience building and shipping scalable applications in Java or another JVM language
• Experience with event-driven or distributed architectures using queues or pub-sub
• Strong relational database and SQL skills
• Opinions on software testing
• Experience as a mentor or an apprentice
• Fluency in other programming languages and platforms is nice, but not required
• Experience with schemaless distributed data stores like DynamoDB or Cassandra a plus

ActiveCampaign is an employee-first culture. We take care of our employees at work and outside of work. We'll share all the details later on but in summary: comprehensive health and wellness benefits including no premiums for employees on our HSA plan, open time off plan, generous 401(k) matching with no vesting, lunch and endless snacks/ beverages, reimbursed commuting, education budgets, ongoing learning and development, a proactive approach to diversity and inclusion, career pathing and lots of swag.