Forward Deployment Engineer - Technology agnostic -

Location: Irving, TX - onsite - all 5 days. Hiring manager notes: Back-end vendor API integration work: 5+ yrs back-end (language-agnostic — Node/Spring/Python), 3 yrs point-to-point/third-party API + data integrations, 3 yrs adjacent to data pipelines, 3 yrs major cloud. Everything bolded on the JD is required. Round 2 is a mandatory in-person coding + architecture challenge; 5 days onsite preferred. JD: Job Title: Software Development Engineer Sr. – MarTech Labor Category: IT Bill Rate: $100.00 Hourly NOOT *Overview* 7-Eleven is looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to join the MarTech team! MarTech builds and operates the platforms and capabilities that power how 7-Eleven reaches, engages, and personalizes the experience for millions of customers every day across our owned web and app, in-store and pump screens, CRM, retail media, and paid channels. *About the job:* You’ll be joining a multidisciplinary MarTech organization spanning four connected work streams, Retail Media (RMN), CRM & Campaigns, Personalization & Web, and a shared MarTech Foundation team, alongside product managers, solution architects, software and data engineers, and QA who build the systems that activate marketing across every customer touchpoint. You will be responsible for designing and building the integrations, APIs, and data pipelines that connect 7-Eleven's marketing ecosystem — ad platforms, in-store media vendors, audience tools, and the enterprise data lake — into a unified activation and measurement layer that improves customer experience and drives store revenue. MarTech engineers have a solid technical background but enjoy learning new platforms, vendor APIs, and frameworks. From standing up a net-new ingestion feed to wiring a vendor's proof-of-play data through to reporting, engineers on this team wear many hats to see integrations through to completion. We lean heavily on AI-assisted development to multiply our output, and we expect engineers to do the same. This position is based in Irving, TX (part of the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex). *Key Responsibilities:* * Design, build, and operate integrations between customer and third-party MarTech/ad-tech vendors (retail media, in-store media, audience activation, measurement) * Build and maintain REST/event-driven APIs (read, push, pull) and batch and streaming data feeds into and out of the enterprise data lake and activation platforms * Develop business-friendly interfaces and tooling on top of the orchestration layer so marketers and analysts can operate without engineering involvement * Partner with the data platform, DevOps, and InfoSec teams to land, secure, and govern external data (e.g., cross-account ingestion, data contracts, schema validation) * Translate vendor API contracts and data specs into reliable, well-tested, production-ready services * Leverage AI-assisted development tooling to accelerate delivery without sacrificing quality * Deliver on time with a high bar on reliability, data quality, and engineering craft *Qualifications:* * *5+ years building backend services and APIs (Node.js, Spring/Java, Python, or similar)* * *3 years minimum integrating third-party/vendor APIs and data feeds, including authentication patterns (OAuth, IAM roles, cross-account access)* * *3 years minimum (5 years would be nice) with data pipelines and stores — SQL and NoSQL, batch and streaming (e.g., Kafka/Kinesis, Auto Loader, COPY INTO)* * *3 years minimum with cloud services architXX (S3, IAM, serverless functions, compute); experience with Databricks / lakehouse patterns a strong plus* * Familiarity with containerized tooling and deployments (Docker/Kubernetes) * Ability to communicate complex technical information to all stakeholders, including non-technical business partners * Exceptional troubleshooting skills across distributed, multi-vendor systems *Nice To Have:* * Working knowledge of frontend frameworks (React, Angular, or Vue.js) sufficient to build internal/business-facing tooling * Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science / Engineering / Math, or relevant experience Pay: $100,689.25 - $121,260.17 per year Benefits: * 401(k) matching * Dental insurance * Health insurance * Life insurance * Paid time off * Relocation assistance * Vision insurance Work Location: In person