Thrive Market is hiring a
Manager Software Engineering

Summary

Thrive Market, a mission-driven online marketplace offering healthy and sustainable products, is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead their Backend teams in creating exceptional customer experiences. The role involves leading a global team of backend developers, architecting scalable APIs, and driving end-to-end customer experiences.

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 backend developers
• Support, mentor, and guide engineers on your team
• Level up your team by strategically planning & assigning tasks, challenging them to raise the bar
• Lead a cross-functional ‘pod’ to drive end-to-end customer experiences
• 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 continually improve, 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.)

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