[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Thrive Market is an online membership-based market focused on making healthy and sustainable living easy and affordable. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack to own the architecture and evolution of systems, collaborating with Product, Design, and Data to deliver impactful features.
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and evolution of your pod's systems end-to-end
- 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; avoid decomposition for its own sake
- Ie 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
- Raise the bar on the team's architectural and systems thinking: mentor, review, challenge, elevate
- Own the SLAs for the surfaces your pod runs
Skills
- 5+ years building and operating high-traffic, customer-facing systems
- Strong CS fundamentals. Strong object-oriented design. Strong relational database design and 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
- Comfort working across multiple languages and stacks; language is a tool, not an identity. Our stack today includes PHP/Magento on the backend and React/Next on the frontend, on AWS; the right hire is comfortable moving between layers
- Working knowledge of AWS (Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, SQS, etc.) and clear reasoning about tradeoffs between relational, document, and wide-column stores
- Track record of shipping high-impact, customer-facing features in production at scale
- Communicates concisely and at the right altitude; defaults to options + recommendation, not exhaustive detail
- Big-picture orientation. Reasons about systems and outcomes; does not get lost in syntax
- Member-first. Prioritizes Customer, Team, and Business consistently
- Observability and monitoring experience (New Relic, Datadog, or similar) to maintain SLA, Apdex, and error rate
Benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision, life and disability)
- 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
- Ability to work in our beautiful office in Playa Vista
- Coverage for Life Coaching & Therapy Sessions on our holistic mental health and well-being platform
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