Staff Software Engineer, Fullstack

Thrive Market

. Set technical direction for Member Growth's systems and own architecture evolution across pods .

Posted 10/5/2026full-timeRemote • California • United StatesLead💰 $160,000 - $225,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing scalable, high-traffic systems with a focus on architecture evolution, technical leadership, and cross-team collaboration. Proficient in applying strong CS fundamentals and cloud technologies to drive impactful customer-facing features and maintain operational standards.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Technical Direction SettingHigh-Traffic System DesignEventing and Workflow OrchestrationAWS ProficiencyObservability and Monitoring

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Hard Skills

Object-Oriented DesignRelational Database DesignDistributed Systems TradeoffsCachingAsync PipelinesIdempotencyBackpressureTechnical Design DocumentationTest-Driven DevelopmentSystem Instrumentation

Soft Skills

Strong Written CommunicationConcise CommunicationInfluence Without AuthorityMentoring EngineersBuilding Consensus

Tools & Technologies

AWS LambdaAWS S3AWS CloudWatchKafkaSNSSQSTemporalAirflowNew RelicDatadog

Industry Keywords

E-CommerceSubscriptionMembershipFunnel OptimizationExperimentationAttributionPaymentsRecurring Billing

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowAWSCloudDistributed SystemsKafkaMagentoPHPReact

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Set technical direction for Member Growth's systems and own architecture evolution across pods
Identify high-leverage funnel, platform, and workflow problems and add them to the roadmap with proposals
Write technical designs and RFCs with architecture diagrams, options, tradeoffs, and recommendations
Make system-level decisions about eventing, workflow orchestration, caching, async pipelines, and new services
Design for horizontal scale and low, uniform latency under real traffic patterns
Decompose services into scalable components and plan migration paths
Partner with Frontend Core, Backend Core, Data, and product teams on shared systems, boundaries, and contracts
Break down ambiguous multi-team problems into plans with clear owners and drive them to completion
Build consensus with engineers, Product, and leadership
Instrument systems, tie engineering decisions to outcomes, and defend shipped work with data
Apply test-driven development and prioritize quality, reliability, and observability
Present Product and Design with options and recommendations
Define engineering standards; mentor, review, challenge, and elevate engineers
Own SLAs and operational standards for Member Growth surfaces
Multiply team output through AI tooling

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years building and operating high-traffic, customer-facing systems, including technical leadership across multiple teams
Strong CS fundamentals: object-oriented design, relational database design, and systems 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
Comfortable moving between layers and stacks; language is a tool, not an identity
Working knowledge of AWS (Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, SQS, etc.) and clear reasoning about tradeoffs between relational, document, and wide-column stores
A track record of shipping high-impact, customer-facing features in production at scale
A track record of setting technical direction: proposals written, architectures adopted, migrations landed, standards others follow
Strong written and visual communicator; diagrams, design docs, and proposals are how you think out loud
Influence without authority across engineers, Product, and leadership
Experience measurably leveling up engineers
Concise, high-altitude communication; options plus recommendation, not exhaustive detail
Member-first orientation: Customer, Team, and Business, in that order
Observability and monitoring experience (New Relic, Datadog, or similar) to maintain SLA, Apdex, and error rate
Growth, e-commerce, subscription, or membership experience is a plus: funnels, experimentation, attribution and pixels, payments and recurring billing
Stack experience with PHP/Magento, React/Next, and AWS is relevant to the current environment

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision, life and disability)
Competitive salary + 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