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Staff Software Engineer, Fullstack

Playa Vista, CA · Remote · Lead / Staff / Principal

$160,000 – $225,000

Listed on Thrive Market’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

Thrive Market seeks a Staff Software Engineer to own the technical architecture for their Member Growth systems and drive high-leverage improvements across a high-traffic e-commerce platform. This role suits someone with deep systems thinking and a track record of setting technical direction across teams, who leads through clear communication and data rather than seniority alone.

Our summary, not Thrive Market’s wording. The full posting is on their site.

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What they ask for

Required

8+ years building and operating high-traffic customer-facing systems with technical leadership across multiple teams
Strong object-oriented design and relational database design fundamentals
Systems reasoning with knowledge of eventing, workflow orchestration, distributed systems, caching, async pipelines, and idempotency
Proficiency moving across technology layers and stacks, treating language as a tool
Working knowledge of AWS services and understanding of relational, document, and wide-column database tradeoffs
Track record of shipping high-impact customer-facing features at scale in production
Track record of setting technical direction through proposals, architectures, migrations, and standards
Strong written and visual communication skills including diagrams and design documents
Ability to influence across teams without formal authority
Demonstrated ability to level up engineers around you
Experience with observability and monitoring tools to maintain SLAs and error rates

Nice to have

Growth, e-commerce, subscription, or membership experience including funnels, experimentation, attribution, payments, and recurring billing