RESPONSIBILITIES
Set technical direction for Member Growth's systems. Own the architecture and its evolution across pods, not just your own.
Find the highest-leverage problems and opportunities in the funnel, the platform, and our ways of working, and put them on the roadmap with a proposal.
Write the proposals. Tech designs and RFCs with architecture diagrams, options, tradeoffs, and a clear recommendation. Make hard decisions easy to understand and easy to make.
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. Plan the migration path, not just the end state.
Work cross-team and cross-function. Partner with Frontend Core, Backend Core, Data, and other product teams to align on shared systems, boundaries, and contracts. Represent Member Growth in technical decisions that affect us.
Take a fuzzy, multi-team problem, break it into a plan with clear owners, and see it through. Unblock others.
Build consensus with engineers, Product, and leadership. Disagree clearly. Commit fully.
Tie 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.
Define what good looks like in design, code, and operations. Mentor, review, challenge, elevate. Grow the next seniors and staff.
Own the SLAs for the surfaces Member Growth runs and the standards that keep them healthy.
Multiply output with AI tooling, for yourself and the team.
QUALIFICATIONS
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. Our stack today is PHP/Magento on the backend and React/Next on the frontend, on AWS.
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: has aligned engineers, Product, and leadership across teams on a direction and delivered it
Has measurably leveled up the engineers around them
Concise, high-altitude communicator who defaults to 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.
BELONG TO A BETTER COMPANY
Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision, life and disability)
Competitive salary (DOE) + 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
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JOB INFORMATION
Compensation Description - The base salary range for this position is $160,000 - $225,000/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 & Wellness Benefits, Flexible PTO, and more!
