Thrive Market

Senior Product Engineer Backend

Posted Yesterday

2 Locations

In-Office or Remote

160K-190K Annually

Senior level

Consumer Web • eCommerce • Food • Healthtech • Natural Language Processing • Social Impact

Healthy Living Made Easy

The Role

The Senior Product Engineer Backend will develop scalable API services optimize e-commerce experiences and collaborate on architecture and code design to enhance customer satisfaction.

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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 1600000+ 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 are excited about this role along with our mission and values we encourage you to apply.

Thrive Market is an EEO/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.

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.thrivemarket.com.

JOB INFORMATION:

Compensation Description - The base salary range for this position is $160000 - $190000/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!

Top Skills

AWS

Java

Kafka

Linux

NoSQL

PHP

Python

Relational Databases

Serverless

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The Company

HQ: Los Angeles CA

1000 Employees

Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

Thrive Market was founded in 2014 with a mission to make healthy and sustainable living easy and affordable for everyone. We're an online grocery store that delivers the highest-quality organic and sustainable products at member-exclusive low prices. What's more every paid annual membership sponsors a free one-year membership for a family in financial need. Every day we leverage innovative technology and member-first thinking to help our more than 1.5 million members find healthy products support brands making an impact and build a better food future in the process. In 2020 we became a Certified B Corporation making us the largest grocer in the U.S. to earn this coveted qualification.

Why Work With Us

Thrive Market was born out of a mission to deliver better products better brands and a healthier lifestyle to families throughout the United States. Our team is energetic talented and collaborative working together to reach our goal of providing our members with a best-in-class marketplace.