• Develop and integrate composition layer APIs using GraphQL and AWS AppSync. • Work on Node.js modules to build the composition layer component. • Optimize applications for performance, scalability, and user experience. • Ensure best practices in CI/CD pipelines for continuous deployment and integration. • Implement secure and scalable solutions leveraging AWS services. • Maintain code quality using version control systems like Git. • Troubleshoot and debug applications as needed. • Work in an agile team environment and participate in code reviews.

• Own the architecture and long-term technical roadmap for major areas of our technology stack • Lead and drive the design of complex, scalable systems that meet business needs today and tomorrow • Reduce complexity — consistently find ways to get more done with less by simplifying services, processes, and codebases • Mentor technical leads and senior engineers; multiply team effectiveness through cross-functional facilitation and inclusive decision-making • Act as a technical evangelist — collaborate with executives and stakeholders to align technical and business strategies • Drive innovation in cost-effectiveness, scalability, and engineering productivity across the division • Proactively identify and mitigate technical debt; introduce improvements that raise the quality and velocity of the whole team

• Take ownership of high-visibility, high-impact initiatives with autonomy and accountability. • Work across domains to build features end to end, gaining exposure to the full spectrum of Alpaca’s infrastructure. • Stay deeply connected to the needs of our partners, building tools that streamline workflows and reduce manual effort. • Play a key role in helping our partners succeed providing world-class customer support. • Drive architectural design conversations, helping shape scalable, intuitive, and reliable systems. • Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful solutions. • Opportunity to contribute to API design and product features within our ecosystem • A unique opportunity to mentor other developers and contribute to the overall technical strategy of our company.

Role Description At Thrive Market, Product Engineering builds the systems members touch every day, from the home page through checkout, account, and renewal. You'll work closely with Product, Design, and Data to ship features that drive real outcomes for our members and the business. We are not looking for a programmer or a language specialist, we are looking for an engineer. Someone with strong CS fundamentals, great OO, great relational data modeling, and a systems mindset. Someone who reaches for architecture, patterns, and platforms before they reach for syntax, and who picks the right tool for the job rather than the one they know best. Communication is concise and high-level; orientation is big-picture without losing the details that matter. - 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. - 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. - 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. Benefits - 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