Senior Software Engineer - Personalization

<h2 style="text-align: left;">About The Opportunity</h2>

<p>Become part of the Contentful Personalization Team and help shape how leading businesses deliver personalized digital user experiences.</p>

<p>As a Senior Software Engineer, you will solve complex customer problems and deliver value through end-to-end personalization solutions. You will work across high-performance backend services, developer-facing frontend tools and SDKs, infrastructure, and observability to help customers deliver personalized content experiences in a performant, reliable, and developer-friendly way.</p>

<p>You will bring a proactive approach to problem-solving, a high sense of ownership, and a continuous improvement mindset. You will use modern AI tools, including agentic coding workflows, thoughtfully to improve how you explore, build, test, and maintain software. You will also contribute actively to the team's Agile ways of working, understanding how planning, refinement, delivery, reviews, retrospectives, and continuous improvement fit together.</p>

<h2 style="text-align: left;">What To Expect?</h2>

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<li>Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services and APIs with a focus on reliability, scalability, and low latency.</li>

<li>Deliver end-to-end solutions across backend services, React-based frontend experiences, and developer-facing SDKs, libraries, and tools.</li>

<li>Implement complex CDN and edge-based caching solutions that allow users to retrieve personalized content in the most performant way.</li>

<li>Solve technical challenges in creative ways, balancing the trade-off between performance and elegant software architecture.</li>

<li>Continuously monitor and optimize system performance through benchmarking, while making sure systems are well instrumented for observability.</li>

<li>Implement defensive codi