Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack

About the role

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 1,700,000+ 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.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and evolution of your pod's systems end-to-end.
• Make system-level calls on when to introduce eventing (Kafka, SQS), workflow orchestration (Temporal, Airflow, DAGs), caching, async pipelines, or new services, and when not to.
• Design for horizontal scale and low, uniform latency under real Thrive traffic patterns.
• Decompose existing services into scalable components where it materially helps; avoid decomposition for its own sake.
• Bring Product and Design options and a recommendation, not a single path.
• Raise the bar on the team's architectural and systems thinking: mentor, review, challenge, elevate.
• Own the SLAs for the surfaces your pod runs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating high-traffic, customer-facing systems.
• Strong CS fundamentals.
• Strong object-oriented design.
• Strong relational database design and reasoning.
• Fluency at the system and cloud level: eventing (Kafka, SNS, SQS), workflow orchestration (Temporal, Airflow, DAGs), distributed systems tradeoffs, caching, async pipelines, idempotency, backpressure.
• Comfort working across multiple languages and stacks; language is a tool, not an identity. Our stack today includes PHP/Magento on the backend and React/Next on the frontend, on AWS; the right hire is comfortable moving between layers.
• Working knowledge of AWS (Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, SQS, etc.) and clear reasoning about tradeoffs between relational, document, and wide-column stores.
• Track record of shipping high-impact, customer-facing features in production at scale.
• Communicates concisely and at the right altitude; defaults to options + recommendation, not exhaustive detail.
• Big-picture orientation. Reasons about systems and outcomes; does not get lost in syntax.
• Member-first. Prioritizes Customer, Team, and Business consistently.
• Observability and monitoring experience (New Relic, Datadog, or similar) to maintain SLA, Apdex, and error rate.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision, life and disability)
• Competitive salary (DOE) + equity
• 401k Employer Match
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Subsidized ClassPass Membership with access to fitness classes and wellness and beauty experiences
• Free Thrive Market membership with exclusive employee discount
• Coverage for Life Coaching & Therapy Sessions on our holistic mental health and well-being platform

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $160,000 - $190,000/Per Year. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on several factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and geographic location. Total Compensation includes Base Salary, Stock Options, Health & Wellness Benefits, Flexible PTO, and more!

Schedule

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