Software Engineer

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 1,700,000+ 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. ABOUT THRIVE MARKET At Thrive Market, Product Engineering builds the systems members touch every day, from the home page through checkout, account, and renewal. You'll work closely with Product, Design, and Data to ship features that drive real outcomes for our members and the business. We are not looking for a programmer or a language specialist, we are looking for an engineer. Someone with strong CS fundamentals, great OO, great relational data modeling, and a systems mindset. Someone who reaches for architecture, patterns, and platforms before they reach for syntax, and who picks the right tool for the job rather than the one they know best. Communication is concise and high-level; orientation is big-picture without losing the details that matter. RESPONSIBILITIES: Own the architecture and evolution of your pod's systems end-to-end. Make system-level calls on when to introduce eventing (Kafka, SQS), workflow orchestration (Temporal, Airflow, DAGs), caching, async pipelines, or new services, and when not to. Design for horizontal scale and low, uniform latency under real Thrive traffic patterns. Decompose existing services into scalable components where it materially helps; avoid decomposition for its own sake. ie engineering decisions to outcomes. Instrument what you build; defend what you ship with data. Test-driven from the start. Quality, reliability, and observability are first-class, not afterthoughts. Bring Product and Design options and a recommendation, not a single path. Raise the bar on the team's architectural and systems thinking: mentor, review, challenge, elevate. Own the SLAs for the surfaces your pod runs. QUALIFICATIONS 5+ years building and operating high-traffic, customer-facing systems. Strong CS fundamentals. Strong object-oriented design. Strong relational database design and reasoning. Fluency at the system and cloud level: eventing (Kafka, SNS, SQS), workflow orchestration (Temporal, Airflow, DAGs), distributed systems tradeoffs, caching, async pipelines, idempotency, backpressure. Comfort working across multiple languages and stacks; language is a tool, not an identity. Our stack today includes PHP/Magento on the backend and React/Next on the frontend, on AWS; the right hire is comfortable moving between layers. Working knowledge of AWS (Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, SQS, etc.) and clear reasoning about tradeoffs between relational, document, and wide-column stores. Track record of shipping high-impact, customer-facing features in production at scale. Communicates concisely and at the right altitude; defaults to options + recommendation, not exhaustive detail. Big-picture orientation. Reasons about systems and outcomes; does not get lost in syntax. Member-first. Prioritizes Customer, Team, and Business consistently. Observability and monitoring experience (New Relic, Datadog, or similar) to maintain SLA, Apdex, and error rate. 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 View email address on click.appcast.io 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 . © Thrive Market 2026 All rights reserved. JOB INFORMATION: Compensation Description - The base salary range for this position is $160,000 - $190,000/Per Year. Compensationmay 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!