Engineering Manager, Product Engineering

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.

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 journey, from building intuitive cart and checkout experiences to optimizing our Autoship feature, akin to Amazon's Subscribe & Save. 

We seek an engineering manager to lead a pod in our product engineering organization. In this role, you'll guide a group of talented engineers in creating 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.

• Lead and grow a global team of software engineers. Support, mentor, and guide engineers on your team
• Level up your team by strategically planning and assigning tasks and challenging them to raise the bar
• Lead a cross-functional “pod” to drive end-to-end customer experiences, in partnership with 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 improve continually, 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, 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 and experience, and geographic location.
• Total Compensation includes Base Salary, Stock Options, Health and Wellness Benefits, Flexible PTO, and more!

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