Job Description

The Product Engineering team at Thrive Market collaborates with Product Managers and Feature teams to build innovative solutions for the e-commerce grocery experience. The Staff Engineer will own a pod, working with engineers to create impactful product features that delight members and drive revenue. The role heavily influences customer shopping, saving, and returning to Thrive Market.

Responsibilities

• Develop REST and JSON API services for new customer experiences
• Decompose existing services into scalable microservices
• Build horizontally scalable services with low latency
• Work with Golang, Python, PHP, Java, AWS, Kafka
• Implement test-driven development
• Incorporate meaningful metrics into new services
• Troubleshoot issues and restore functionality with cross-functional teams
• Collaborate with product team and innovate game-changing ideas
• Discuss architecture and code design choices
• Enforce best practices and process enforcement
• Strategically plan and assign tasks to level up the team
• Own the SLA(s) around APIs owned by their pod

Requirements

• 7+ years developing high-traffic, responsive, cross-platform sites
• Working knowledge of Linux, Relational & NoSQL databases, serverless
• Understanding of architecture tradeoffs and database technologies
• Working knowledge of AWS services (Lambda, S3, Cloudwatch)
• Experience building n-tier applications supporting millions of transactions
• Shipped multiple high-customer impact use cases
• Understanding of scaling and performance in microservice architecture
• Experience with version control (Git)
• Prioritize Customer, Team, and Business
• Good working knowledge of various AWS services
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools

Benefits

• No benefits