Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack

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.

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