Founded by Arianna Huffington in 2016, Thrive Global is a leading behavior change technology company with the mission to improve productivity and health outcomes – one Microstep at a time. Thrive helps individuals and organizations improve well-being, performance and mental resilience with its AI-powered behavior change technology platform. Thrive’s Microsteps – small, science-backed steps to improve health and productivity – have been adopted by employees at more than 200 organizations in over 160 countries, from frontline and call center workers to executives at multinational companies. For more information, visit www.thriveglobal.com.

As a Senior Backend Software Engineer, you will be an integral part of the teams that designs, builds, and innovates our Backend Platform. You will design, build, and innovate our libraries, tools and systems that enable Thrive’s product teams to deliver a world class product.

This position offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on our product's reach and effectiveness, by empowering fellow engineers to improve the health & productivity of our users through science-backed behavior change.

We need a kind and caring team player who takes responsibility for organizational outcomes and is ready to collaborate with Business, Product, and Technology partners.

If you’re not sure that you’re 100% qualified, but this sounds like a role you would Thrive in – we want you to apply! We believe skills are transferable and passion for our mission goes a long way.

How You'll Contribute:

• Building the libraries, frameworks and systems that support Thrive’s microservice architecture

• Working closely with application teams to design the systems for new features using those frameworks

• Building tools and automation that help Engineers at Thrive iterate quickly and safely

• Partner with team leadership to plan for and adopt new backend technologies and tackle technical challenges presented by new features

• Working closely with other platform teams to provide a cohesive platform experience

• Answering questions and supporting application teams in their use of the platform tools

• Help improve the way your team works, and be an active participant in on-call & supporting the teams products

• Take part in peer reviews, collaborative design sessions, production issue troubleshooting, business requirement gathering and other organizational processes.

Must Haves:

• Production development experience in Kotlin, Java, or Scala

• 5 or more years of software engineering experience; B2C platform or service experience is a plus

• Experience building, running, and debugging scalable and reliable microservice-based applications

• Strong understanding of systems and network design and their impact on application architecture

• Ability to work well in a team setting, communicate effectively with other team members, and provide mentorship.

• Relational database-driven RESTful and/or GraphQL API application architecture and design experience

• Experience working with a cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP)

What We Offer:

• Being part of a mission-driven company that’s truly making a difference in the lives of people around the world

• Ability to develop within the company and shape our growth strategy

• A human-centric culture with a range of wellness perks and benefits

• A competitive compensation package

• Medical, dental and vision coverage + 401k program with company match

• Generous paid time-off programs

Compensation for this role depends on level, and will likely fall in the $122,000-$209,000 range. We provide a competitive mix of salary, performance bonus, and equity.

Thrive is deeply committed to creating a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment so that all employees can bring their whole selves to work.

Thrive is proud to ensure equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, genetics, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, family or parental status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

Thrive is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. Please inform Thrive’s Recruiting team if you need any assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process.