Senior Product Engineer, Backend

Role overview

As a Senior Product Engineer (Backend) on Thrive Market’s Product Engineering team, you’ll collaborate with Product Managers and feature teams to build and evolve backend services that improve the customer e-commerce grocery experience (e.g., cart/checkout and Autoship).

Responsibilities

• Develop REST and JSON API services that power new customer experiences.
• Decompose existing services into scalable microservices when needed.
• Build services that scale horizontally with low, uniform latency as demand grows, using appropriate tools (languages, databases, serverless, distributed streaming, etc.).
• Work with Golang, Python, PHP, Java, AWS, and Kafka.
• Practice test-driven development to improve reliability, protect customer experience, and increase development speed.
• Add meaningful metrics to new services and evangelize them.
• Partner cross-functionally to troubleshoot issues and restore system functionality.
• Work with product teams to develop and discuss impactful ideas and solutions.
• Contribute to architecture and code design discussions; enforce best practices.
• Level up the team by planning and assigning work strategically and raising the bar.
• Own API SLAs for your pod and help drive improvements in class.

Requirements

• 5+ years developing end-to-end, high-traffic, responsive, cross-platform experiences.
• Experience with Java or Python, and PHP.
• Working knowledge of Linux and relational + NoSQL databases.
• Ability to understand architecture tradeoffs (e.g., relational vs document vs wide-column).
• Experience with AWS services including Lambda, S3, CloudWatch.
• Experience building n-tier applications capable of supporting millions of transactions per day.
• Shipped multiple high-customer-impact use cases for a highly trafficked, customer-facing product.
• Experience scaling and performing in a microservice architecture.
• Proficiency with Git.
• Strong prioritization of Customer, Team, and Business needs.
• Experience with observability/monitoring tools such as New Relic to maintain SLA, Apdex, and error rate.

Nice-to-haves / additional signals

• Strong backend ownership mindset aligned to pod-based engineering and API reliability.