Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the design and advancement of your pod's systems from start to finish.

• Make system-level decisions on when to implement eventing (Kafka, SQS), workflow orchestration (Temporal, Airflow, DAGs), caching, asynchronous pipelines, or new services, and when to refrain from doing so.

• Architect solutions for horizontal scalability and consistent, low latency under actual Thrive traffic conditions.

• Break down existing services into scalable components when it provides significant benefits; avoid decomposition merely for its own sake.

• Focus on engineering decisions that lead to outcomes. Measure what you develop; substantiate your releases with data.

• Adopt test-driven development from the outset. Ensure quality, reliability, and observability are prioritized, not treated as afterthoughts.

• Present Product and Design alternatives along with a recommendation, rather than proposing a single solution.

• Elevate the team's architectural and systems thinking: mentor, evaluate, challenge, and uplift.

• Be accountable for the service level agreements (SLAs) related to the surfaces your pod manages.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in building and managing high-traffic, customer-facing systems.

• Strong foundation in computer science principles. Proficient in object-oriented design and relational database design and reasoning.

• Fluent in system and cloud technologies: eventing (Kafka, SNS, SQS), workflow orchestration (Temporal, Airflow, DAGs), distributed systems trade-offs, caching, asynchronous pipelines, idempotency, and backpressure.

• Comfortable working across various programming languages and technology stacks; view language as a tool rather than an identity. Our current stack includes PHP/Magento on the backend and React/Next on the frontend on AWS; the ideal candidate should be adept at navigating between these layers.

• Familiar with AWS (Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, SQS, etc.) and able to reason clearly about the trade-offs among relational, document, and wide-column databases.

• Proven history of delivering impactful, customer-facing features in a production environment at scale.

• Communicates clearly and appropriately; tends to provide options along with recommendations rather than excessive details.

• Maintains a big-picture perspective. Analyzes systems and outcomes without getting bogged down in syntax.

• Member-focused. Consistently prioritizes Customer, Team, and Business needs.

• Experience with observability and monitoring tools (New Relic, Datadog, or similar) to ensure SLA adherence, Apdex, and error rate management.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits package (medical, dental, vision, life, and disability).

• Competitive salary (based on experience) plus equity.

• 401k Employer Match.

• 9 Observed Holidays.

• Flexible Paid Time Off.

• Subsidized ClassPass Membership providing access to fitness classes and wellness and beauty services.

• Opportunity to work in our stunning office located in Playa Vista.

• Free Thrive Market membership with exclusive employee discounts.

• Coverage for Life Coaching and Therapy Sessions through our holistic mental health and well-being platform.