Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Position Overview

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Thrive Market is seeking a Senior Engineer to join their Product Engineering team. This role involves operating and elevating a pod within the product engineering organization, collaborating with talented engineers to create impactful product features that enhance the e-commerce grocery experience. The Senior Engineer will play a pivotal role in shaping customer journeys, including the cart, checkout, and Autoship features.

Responsibilities

• Develop REST and JSON API services to enable new customer experiences.
• Decompose existing services into scalable microservices as needed.
• Build horizontally scalable services with low uniform latency using appropriate tools (languages, databases, serverless, distributed streaming, etc.).
• Work with Golang, Python, PHP, Java, AWS, and Kafka.
• Implement test-driven development to ensure customer experience, speed, and reliability.
• Incorporate and evangelize meaningful metrics into new services and functionality.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot issues and restore function.
• Innovate game-changing ideas for the Customer in close partnership with the product team.
• Lead discussions around architecture and code design choices.
• Enforce best practices and process adherence.
• Strategically plan and assign tasks to elevate the team's performance.
• Own and strive to achieve SLAs for APIs owned by their pod, focusing on class, Apdex, and error rates.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience developing end-to-end, high-traffic, responsive, cross-platform sites.
• Working knowledge of Linux, Relational & NoSQL databases, and serverless technologies.
• Understanding of tradeoffs between architectural choices and various database technologies (e.g., Relational vs. Document vs. Wide Column).
• Working knowledge of AWS services such as Lambda, S3, Cloudwatch, etc.
• Experience building n-tier applications capable of supporting millions of transactions daily.
• Proven experience shipping high-customer impact use cases through simple and effective solutions in highly trafficked, customer-facing products.
• Understanding of scaling and performance in a microservice architecture.
• Experience using version control systems like Git.
• Ability to consistently prioritize the Customer, Team, and Business.
• Good working knowledge of various AWS services (e.g., Lambda, S3, Cloudwatch).
• Experience using observability and monitoring tools like New Relic to maintain SLAs, Apdex, and error rates.

Company Information

Thrive Market was founded in 2014 with a mission to make healthy and sustainable living easy and affordable for everyone. As an online, membership-based market, they deliver high-quality healthy and sustainable products at member-only prices, while matching every paid membership with a free one for someone in need. They leverage innovative technology and member-first thinking to help their 1,600,000+ members find better products, support better brands, and build a better world. Thrive Market is a Certified B Corporation, a Public Benefit Corporation, and a Climate Neutral Certified company.

Benefits

• 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 services.