Engineering Manager, Product Engineering

Summary

Join Thrive Market's Product Engineering team as an Engineering Manager to lead a pod of talented software engineers. You will guide your team in developing impactful product features, enhancing the customer experience, and driving revenue growth. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, owning service-level objectives (SLOs), and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. You will leverage your expertise in building scalable and high-performing applications using technologies like AWS, Python, and other relevant tools. Thrive Market offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including comprehensive health insurance, flexible PTO, and a supportive work environment.

Requirements

• 5+ years leading teams
• 10+ years developing end-to-end high-traffic responsive consumer sites
• Experience in building n-tier customer-facing applications that support millions of transactions per day
• Experience working with multiple AWS services, including EKS, Lambda, S3, Cloudwatch, etc
• Strong understanding of tradeoffs between architecture choices, implementation patterns, and database technologies
• Strong understanding of scaling and performance in a microservice architecture
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools like New Relic to maintain SLOs around performance and error rates
• Working knowledge of Linux, Relational & NoSQL databases, Serverless

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a global team of software engineers. Support, mentor, and guide engineers on your team
• Level up your team by strategically planning and assigning tasks and challenging them to raise the bar
• Lead a cross-functional “pod” to drive end-to-end customer experiences, in partnership with product management, analytics, and user experience
• Work closely with the product team to innovate game-changing ideas for our members
• Own the SLOs around APIs for your pod. Work across teams to troubleshoot issues and improve outcomes
• Encourage your team to improve continually, by prioritizing working smarter over working harder
• Develop REST and JSON API services that enable new customer experiences. Build services that scale horizontally and provide low uniform latency as demand increases, leveraging the right tool for the right job (languages, databases, serverless, distributed streaming, etc.)Work with Python, PHP, Java, Golang, AWS, Kafka
• Encourage and enforce development best practices, including test-driven development from the get-go, to maintain customer experience and build speed and reliability into the development process. Incorporate meaningful metrics into new services and functionality your team builds
• Drive discussions around architecture and design. Decompose existing services into scalable microservices where needed

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision, life and disability)
• Competitive salary (DOE) + equity
• 401k plan
• 9 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 co-working space at WeWork in Playa Vista and other locations
• Free Thrive Market membership with exclusive employee discount
• Coverage for Life Coaching & Therapy Sessions on our holistic mental health and well-being platform