Senior Software Engineer (Platform)
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.
THE ROLE
The platform team at Thrive consistently innovates and builds highly performant and scalable services to help our product teams unlock delightful customer experiences. You will be empowered to be autonomous and drive critical initiatives that help drive the mission forward while continuing to evolve the platform.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop REST, JSON API services that enable new customer experiences
- Decompose existing service 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 on game-changing ideas for the Customer
- Create discussions around architecture and code design choices where appropriate
QUALIFICATIONS
- 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, various database technologies i.e. Relational Vs Document Vs Wide Column
- 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 on a consistent basis
BELONG TO A BETTER COMPANY
- 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!
If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please email us at [email protected] and we’ll be happy to assist you.
© Thrive Market 2022 All rights reserved
#LI-DR1
Ensure your Thrive Market job offer is legitimate and don’t fall victim to fraud. Thrive Market never seeks payment from job applicants. Thrive Market recruiters will only reach out to applicants from an @thrivemarket.com email address. For added security, where possible, apply through our company website at www.thrivemarketjobs.com