Thrive Market - Staff Software Engineer, Fullstack
Requirements
• 8+ years building and operating high-traffic, customer-facing systems, including technical leadership across multiple teams • Strong CS fundamentals: object-oriented design, relational database design, and systems reasoning • Fluency at the system and cloud level: eventing (Kafka, SNS, SQS), workflow orchestration (Temporal, Airflow, DAGs), distributed systems tradeoffs, caching, async pipelines, idempotency, backpressure • Comfortable moving between layers and stacks; language is a tool, not an identity. Our stack today is PHP/Magento on the backend and React/Next on the frontend, on AWS. • Working knowledge of AWS (Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, SQS, etc.) and clear reasoning about tradeoffs between relational, document, and wide-column stores • A track record of shipping high-impact, customer-facing features in production at scale • A track record of setting technical direction: proposals written, architectures adopted, migrations landed, standards others follow • Strong written and visual communicator; diagrams, design docs, and proposals are how you think out loud • Influence without authority: has aligned engineers, Product, and leadership across teams on a direction and delivered it • Has measurably leveled up the engineers around them • Concise, high-altitude communicator who defaults to options plus recommendation, not exhaustive detail • Member-first orientation: Customer, Team, and Business, in that order • Observability and monitoring experience (New Relic, Datadog, or similar) to maintain SLA, Apdex, and error rate • Growth, e-commerce, subscription, or membership experience is a plus: funnels, experimentation, attribution and pixels, payments and recurring billing. • BELONG TO A BETTER COMPANY • Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision, life and disability) • Competitive salary (DOE) + equity • 401k Employer Match • 9 Days of Observed Holidays • Flexible Paid Time Off • Subsidized ClassPass Membership with access to fitness classes and wellness and beauty experiences • Ability to work in our beautiful office in Playa Vista • Free Thrive Market membership with exclusive employee discount • Coverage for Life Coaching & Therapy Sessions on our holistic mental health and well-being platform • We're a community of more than 1 Million + members who are united by a singular belief: It should be easy to find better products, support better brands, make better choices, and build a better world in the process. • At Thrive Market, we believe in building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic culture. If you are excited about this role along with our mission and values, we encourage you to apply. • Thrive Market is an EEO/Veterans/Disabled/LGBTQ employer
Responsibilities
• Set technical direction for Member Growth's systems. Own the architecture and its evolution across pods, not just your own. • Find the highest-leverage problems and opportunities in the funnel, the platform, and our ways of working, and put them on the roadmap with a proposal. • Write the proposals. Tech designs and RFCs with architecture diagrams, options, tradeoffs, and a clear recommendation. Make hard decisions easy to understand and easy to make. • Make system-level calls on when to introduce eventing (Kafka, SQS), workflow orchestration (Temporal, Airflow, DAGs), caching, async pipelines, or new services, and when not to. • Design for horizontal scale and low, uniform latency under real Thrive traffic patterns. • Decompose existing services into scalable components where it materially helps. Plan the migration path, not just the end state. • Work cross-team and cross-function. Partner with Frontend Core, Backend Core, Data, and other product teams to align on shared systems, boundaries, and contracts. Represent Member Growth in technical decisions that affect us. • Take a fuzzy, multi-team problem, break it into a plan with clear owners, and see it through. Unblock others. • Build consensus with engineers, Product, and leadership. Disagree clearly. Commit fully. • Tie engineering decisions to outcomes. Instrument what you build. Defend what you ship with data. • Test-driven from the start. Quality, reliability, and observability are first-class, not afterthoughts. • Bring Product and Design options and a recommendation, not a single path. • Define what good looks like in design, code, and operations. Mentor, review, challenge, elevate. Grow the next seniors and staff. • Own the SLAs for the surfaces Member Growth runs and the standards that keep them healthy. • Multiply output with AI tooling, for yourself and the team.
Benefits
• 401k Employer Match • 9 Days of Observed Holidays • Flexible Paid Time Off • Subsidized ClassPass Membership with access to fitness classes and wellness and beauty experiences • Ability to work in our beautiful office in Playa Vista • Free Thrive Market membership with exclusive employee discount • Coverage for Life Coaching & Therapy Sessions on our holistic mental health and well-being platform • We're a community of more than 1 Million + members who are united by a singular belief: It should be easy to find better products, support better brands, make better choices, and build a better world in the process. • At Thrive Market, we believe in building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic culture. If you are excited about this role along with our mission and values, we encourage you to apply. • Thrive Market is an EEO/Veterans/Disabled/LGBTQ employer
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