Senior Product Engineer, Backend

ABOUT THRIVE MARKET    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, we deliver the highest quality healthy, and sustainable products at member-only prices, while matching every paid membership with a free one for someone in need. Every day, we leverage innovative technology and member-first thinking to help our over 1,600,000+ members find better products, support better brands, and build a better world in the process. We are also a Certified B Corporation, a Public Benefit Corporation, and a Climate Neutral Certified company.   Join us as we bring healthy and sustainable living to millions of Americans in the years to come.

THE ROLE 

At Thrive Market, our Product Engineering team collaborates closely with Product Managers and Feature teams to craft innovative solutions that elevate our e-commerce grocery experience. This team is pivotal in shaping the customer journeys, including but not limited to building intuitive cart and checkout experiences to optimizing our Autoship feature, akin to Amazon's Subscribe & Save.    We are seeking a Senior Engineer to operate and elevate a pod in our product engineering organization. In this role, you'll work with talented engineers to create impactful product features that delight our members and drive revenue. Your work will heavily influence how our customers shop, save, and return to Thrive Market, making grocery shopping seamless and rewarding.

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 CustomerCreate 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

QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years developing end-to-end high-traffic responsive cross-platform sites
• Experience with Java or Python, and PHP
• 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 GitAble 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

BELONG TO A BETTER COMPANY

• 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 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

We're a community of more than 1 Million + members who are united by a singular belief: It should be easy to find better products, support better brands, make better choices, and build a better world in the process.   At Thrive Market, we believe in building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic culture. If you ar