Manager, Software Engineering (Platform)

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.

Every day, we help our 1.4M+ Members find better products, support better brands, and build a better world in the process.

We are a profitable, half-billion-dollar revenue business proving that mission-focused companies can succeed. We are also a Certified B Corporation, recently became a Public Benefit Corporation, and are a Climate Neutral Certified company.

Join us as we bring healthy and sustainable living to millions of Americans in the years to come.

At Thrive Market, our Platform team builds highly-performant and scalable services that empower our product teams to create exceptional customer experiences.

Here you will find the autonomy to drive critical initiatives that advance our mission and propel our platform to new heights of excellence.

We are currently looking for a Software Engineering Manager to join our Platform Engineering group. In this role, you will lead a dynamic group of passionate engineers on one of our Backend teams, primarily focusing on crafting a world-class e-commerce experience for our members.

You will take charge of architecting scalable, agile, and resilient e-commerce APIs and shaping a platform that delivers joy to shoppers with every interaction.

Have you got what it takes to succeed The following information should be read carefully by all candidates.

RESPONSIBILITES :

• Lead and grow a global team of backend developers.
• Support, mentor, and guide engineers on your team.
• Level up your team by strategically planning & assigning tasks, challenging them to raise the bar.
• Lead a cross-functional pod to drive end-to-end customer experiences, in partnership with front-end engineers, product management, analytics, and user experience.
• Work closely with the product team to innovate game-changing ideas for our members.
• Own the SLOs around APIs for your pod. Work across teams to troubleshoot issues and improve outcomes.
• Encourage your team to continually improve, by prioritizing working smarter over working harder.
• Develop REST and JSON API services that enable new customer experiences.
• Build services that scale horizontally and provide low uniform latency as demand increases, leveraging the right tool for the right job (languages, databases, serverless, distributed streaming, etc.)
• Work with Python, PHP, Java, Golang, AWS, and Kafka.
• Encourage and enforce development best practices, including test-driven development from the get-go, to maintain customer experience and build speed and reliability into the development process.
• Incorporate meaningful metrics into new services and functionality your team builds.
• Drive discussions around architecture and design. Decompose existing services into scalable microservices where needed.

QUALIFICATIONS :

• 5+ years leading teams.
• 10+ years developing end-to-end high-traffic responsive consumer sites.
• Experience in building n-tier customer-facing applications that support millions of transactions per day.
• Experience working with multiple AWS services, including EKS, Lambda, S3, Cloudwatch, etc.
• Strong understanding of tradeoffs between architecture choices, implementation patterns, and database technologies.
• Strong understanding of scaling and performance in a microservice architecture.
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools like New Relic to maintain SLOs around performance and error rates.
• Working knowledge of Linux, Relational & NoSQL databases, Serverless.

BELONG TO A BETTER COMPANY :

• Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision, life, and disability).
• Competitive salary (DOE) + equity.
• 401k plan.
• 9 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 co-working space at WeWork in Playa Vista and other locations.
• 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.

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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.

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JOB INFORMATION :

• Compensation Description - The base salary range for this position is $190,000 - $240,000 / Per Year.
• Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on several factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, experience, and geographic location.
• Total Compensation includes Base Salary, Stock Options, Health and Wellness Benefits, Flexible PTO, and more!

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