Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Summary

Join Thrive Market's Product Engineering team as a Senior Engineer to lead a pod in crafting innovative e-commerce grocery solutions. Collaborate with talented engineers to build impactful product features that enhance the customer experience and drive revenue. Develop REST and JSON API services, decompose existing services into microservices, and build scalable, low-latency services using various technologies. Employ test-driven development, incorporate meaningful metrics, and troubleshoot issues. Work closely with the product team to innovate and improve customer experience. Lead and mentor the team, enforcing best practices and achieving service level agreements. Thrive Market offers a comprehensive benefits package including competitive salary, health benefits, 401k matching, paid time off, and more.

Requirements

• 5+ years developing end-to-end high-traffic responsive cross-platform sites
• Working knowledge of Linux, Relational & NoSQL databases, serverless
• Understand tradeoffs between architecture choices, and various database technologies i.e. Relational Vs Document Vs Wide Column
• Working knowledge with different AWS services - Lambda, S3, cloudwatch, etc
• Experience in building n-tier applications that can support millions of transactions per day
• Shipped multiple high-customer impact use cases through simple and effective solutions, in a highly trafficked customer-facing product
• Understand scaling and performance in a microservice architecture
• Experience using version control such as Git
• Able to prioritize Customer, Team, and Business ahead of everything else consistently
• Good working knowledge of various AWS services such as lambda, s3, Cloudwatch, etc
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools like New Relic effectively to maintain SLA, Apdex, and error rate in check

Responsibilities

• Develop REST and JSON API services that enable new customer experiences
• Decompose existing services into scalable microservices where needed
• Build services that scale horizontally and provide low uniform latency as demand increases, leveraging the right tools (languages, databases, serverless, distributed streaming, etc)
• Working with Golang, Python, PHP, Java, AWS, Kafka
• Test-driven development from the get-go, to protect customer experience and build speed and reliability into the development process
• Incorporate meaningful metrics into new services and functionality you build and evangelize them
• Work with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot issues and restore function
• Work closely with the product team and innovate game-changing ideas for the Customer
• Create discussions around architecture and code design choices where appropriate
• Able to enforce best practices and process enforcement
• Level up the team by strategically planning & assigning tasks, challenging them to raise the bar
• Own the SLA(s) around APIs owned by their pod, know what’s in class, and strive with the team to achieve by raising the bar

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 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