ABOUT THRIVE MARKET

Thrive Market was founded in 2014 with a mission to make healthy 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 1,000,000+ members find better products, support better brands, and build a better world in the process. We recently reached a significant milestone by becoming a Certified B Corporation, making us the largest grocer to earn this coveted qualification.

Director of Engineering, Platform

Our website and award winning mobile applications see millions of unique visitors every month. Our customer growth makes us the fastest growing e-commerce company in Los Angeles. If moving fast and problem solving at scale excites you; if you thrive in a dynamic environment, and if you have a track record of technical expertise and management responsibility then Thrive Market would be a great next challenge in your career!

We are looking for a Director of Engineering to lead our Platform & Product teams. This is a core team of engineers that builds and maintains the technical infrastructure that help Thrive Market solve customer problems at scale. Specifically responsible for Thrive Market’s Core E-Commerce Platform which are driven by underlying microservices, and involve use of containerization and modern architecture (Kafka, SQS, Lambdas, Kubernetes) all hosted on AWS. 

You will be empowered to be autonomous and drive critical initiatives that help drive the mission forward while continuing to evolve our platform. You’ll be the most integral part of our team building our next-generation Platform on Service-Mesh Kubernetes. You’ll solve mission critical technical problems - calling our platform to support hundreds-of-thousands of subscribers and tens-of- thousands of orders per day. All while maintaining sub-second latencies, scale, and 24/7 uptime!

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Partner with Thrive Market’s SVP of Engineering and CTO, as well as other technology leaders to ensure successful collaboration and alignment of your team’s work within the broader technology program.
• Recruit, develop, and retain top engineering talent, empowering your team and supporting career development.
• Foster an atmosphere of accountability and continuous improvement, serving as a coach, mentor and technical advisor. 
• Work hand-in-hand with peers to provide a complete, integrated technology platform that follows high code standards when it comes to test-ability, performance, scalability, automation and code coverage. 
• Diagnose and resolve systemic obstacles that prevent your team from delivering high-quality software at a good velocity.
• Create and execute on strategies to continually foster and build trust and transparency between teams, and drive clear direction, proactive communication and healthy collaboration between all groups involved with Platform Engineering initiatives. 
• Lead the charge in order to improve high availability, data privacy and disaster recovery initiatives. 
• Own the tools and infrastructure (CI/CD, orchestration, automation) to empower and accelerate development, and lead the charge in modernizing our software stack.
• Develop and manage relationships, and maintain healthy collaboration with key external technology partners and 3rd party vendors.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 10+ years in senior infrastructure or platform role at a large scale e-commerce or similar company and will be hands-on when needed. 
• 5+ years hiring and managing teams of technical professionals.
• Strong people manager/supervisor, mentor and collaborator, and have excellent people management and leadership skills. 
• Proven track record of delivering successfully on a portfolio of projects with multiple stakeholders. 
• Compelling communicator with a proven ability to influence others.
• Articulate ideas effectively when presenting to large groups, other executives and business leaders. 
• Must be willing to make key strategic decisions, communicate the thinking behind those decisions and then drive the adoption throughout our studio.
• Passionate about building and developing good engineering practices and processes, like test driven development, continuous integration and build/test/release automation.
• Highly proficient in PHP, Java, Python or other high-level languages.
• Experience with e-commerce engines like Magento/Shopify is a plus.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders and partners in product management, design, data analytics, and QA to maximize the teams’ success.

BELONG TO A BETTER COMMUNITY

• Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision, life and disability)
• Dog-Friendly Office
• Competitive salary (DOE) + equity
• 401k plan
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Stocked kitchen in our Thrive Market Home Office with Thrive Market products
• Yoga, meditation and other weekly events for mindfulness
• Coverage for Life Coaching & Therapy Sessions on our holistic mental health and well-being platform
• Free Thrive Market membership and discount on private label products
• Casual atmosphere and great people to work with




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.




Feeling intimidated or hesitant about applying because you don’t meet every requirement? Studies prove that women and people of color are less likely to apply for jobs if they do not meet every single qualification. At Thrive Market, we believe in building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic culture. If you are excited about this role along with our mission and values, we sincerely encourage you to apply anyways! As the great Los Angeles King Wayne Gretzky said, “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” Take the shot! 




Thrive Market is an EOE/Veterans/Disabled/LGBTQ employer




At Thrive Market, our goal is to be a diverse and inclusive workplace that is representative, at all job levels, of the members we serve and the communities we operate in. We’re proud to be an inclusive company and an Equal Opportunity Employer and we prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. If you’re thinking about joining our team, we expect that you would agree!




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