Thrive Mobile is seeking a Senior Backend / Infrastructure Engineer to take ownership of the systems that enhance their member experience. This role involves designing resilient APIs, managing ...
Thrive Mobile
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Thrive Mobile is seeking a Senior Backend / Infrastructure Engineer to take ownership of the systems that enhance their member experience. This role involves designing resilient APIs, managing ...
Senior Frontend Engineer
Manhattan, NY · On-site
$134K - $185K/yr
Thrive Mobile is looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to own the web surfaces that members and operators interact with every day. This role involves contributing to three Next.js applications and ...
Senior Frontend Engineer
Manhattan, NY · On-site
$134K - $185K/yr
Thrive Mobile is looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to own the web surfaces that members and operators interact with every day. This role involves contributing to three Next.js applications and ...
Full-time
Re-posted 16 days ago
Job description
Job Summary:
Thrive Mobile is seeking a Senior Backend / Infrastructure Engineer to take ownership of the systems that enhance their member experience. This role involves designing resilient APIs, managing production infrastructure on AWS, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate company goals into reliable systems.
Responsibilities:
• Contribute hands-on across our backend and infrastructure while establishing long-term engineering foundations.
• Own development across our core backend technologies:
• JavaScript/TypeScript services deployed on AWS (Lambda, ECS/Fargate, API Gateway)
• Supabase, Postgres, and Snowflake for storage, APIs, and analytics workflows
• Integration layers with health plan partners, Auth0, Zoho CRM, Sanity CMS, and wireless provisioning systems
• Harden operational workflows currently running on low-code tools (n8n, SQL scripts) into production services with proper observability, tests, and rollback paths.
• Drive architecture for the systems behind our three strategic pillars: Data-Driven Personalization at Scale, "Do It for Me" AI Enablement, and the Unified Member Hub.
• Lead end-to-end integrations across our vendor surface, including migrations when we outgrow a dependency.
• Author architecture decision records and runbooks as you go — we believe institutional knowledge belongs in the repo, not in people's heads.
• Partner with product, design, and operations to turn goals into actionable roadmaps.
• Work alongside compliance and member experience to ensure we deliver secure, dependable service to members managing real health conditions on Medicaid and Medicare.
• Drive architectural decisions that balance innovation with a simple, maintainable, startup-friendly stack.
• Set the bar for API design, testing discipline, observability, and on-call practices as the team grows.
• Improve reliability, security, and developer workflows across our systems.
• Identify opportunities to streamline processes and ship features faster without compromising reliability.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 5–8+ years building and owning production backend systems through design, launch, and the phase where the bill for early decisions comes due.
• Strong API design fundamentals — REST and event-driven. You have opinions about versioning, idempotency, error shapes, pagination, and backward compatibility, and you can defend them without reaching for a framework's docs.
• Proficiency with JavaScript/TypeScript, Python or Kotlin backend services
• AWS infrastructure and cloud services (Lambda, ECS/Fargate, API Gateway, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager, IAM)
• Postgres and Supabase for backend data storage and APIs
• Snowflake or similar cloud data warehousing platforms
• Integration experience — you've built against underdocumented vendor APIs, handled webhook retries in production, and know that 'the docs say it returns JSON' is not a guarantee.
• Observability as a default, not a phase-two — structured logging, distributed tracing, and alerts that page humans only when humans should be paged.
• Strong understanding of data modeling and data engineering concepts — you know when to normalize, when to denormalize, and why 'just add a JSONB column' is sometimes right and often wrong.
• Ownership-first mindset — you treat the systems you build as yours. You see it, you own it, you ship it.
• Ability to balance speed and long-term architectural thinking — ship behind flags, plan the rollback, and don't stall deploys out of fear.
• Radical transparency and no hoarding — decisions, trade-offs, and 'I tried this and it didn't work' notes all belong in the repo.
• Data-driven problem solver with strong reasoning and clarity in decision-making.
• Excellent communicator with both technical and non-technical teammates.
• Scrappy, resourceful, and motivated to build quickly.
• Curious, humble, and eager to learn.
• Passionate about serving underserved communities and improving healthcare access through technology.
• Member first, always — every technical decision gets filtered through the question: does this make a member's next interaction with us easier or harder?
Preferred:
• NestJS specifically (our current backend framework)
• Terraform or similar IaC
• Sanity CMS
• Auth0
• healthcare or regulated-data environments (HIPAA, SOC 2)
• experience deploying AI agents or LLM-powered workflows
Company:
Thrive Mobile is the world's first healthcare-focused mobile company. Founded in 2022, the company is headquartered in Nashville, USA, with a team of 11-50 employees. The company is currently Early Stage.
Thrive Mobile is seeking a Senior Backend / Infrastructure Engineer to take ownership of the systems that enhance their member experience. This role involves designing resilient APIs, managing production infrastructure on AWS, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate company goals into reliable systems.
Responsibilities:
• Contribute hands-on across our backend and infrastructure while establishing long-term engineering foundations.
• Own development across our core backend technologies:
• JavaScript/TypeScript services deployed on AWS (Lambda, ECS/Fargate, API Gateway)
• Supabase, Postgres, and Snowflake for storage, APIs, and analytics workflows
• Integration layers with health plan partners, Auth0, Zoho CRM, Sanity CMS, and wireless provisioning systems
• Harden operational workflows currently running on low-code tools (n8n, SQL scripts) into production services with proper observability, tests, and rollback paths.
• Drive architecture for the systems behind our three strategic pillars: Data-Driven Personalization at Scale, "Do It for Me" AI Enablement, and the Unified Member Hub.
• Lead end-to-end integrations across our vendor surface, including migrations when we outgrow a dependency.
• Author architecture decision records and runbooks as you go — we believe institutional knowledge belongs in the repo, not in people's heads.
• Partner with product, design, and operations to turn goals into actionable roadmaps.
• Work alongside compliance and member experience to ensure we deliver secure, dependable service to members managing real health conditions on Medicaid and Medicare.
• Drive architectural decisions that balance innovation with a simple, maintainable, startup-friendly stack.
• Set the bar for API design, testing discipline, observability, and on-call practices as the team grows.
• Improve reliability, security, and developer workflows across our systems.
• Identify opportunities to streamline processes and ship features faster without compromising reliability.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 5–8+ years building and owning production backend systems through design, launch, and the phase where the bill for early decisions comes due.
• Strong API design fundamentals — REST and event-driven. You have opinions about versioning, idempotency, error shapes, pagination, and backward compatibility, and you can defend them without reaching for a framework's docs.
• Proficiency with JavaScript/TypeScript, Python or Kotlin backend services
• AWS infrastructure and cloud services (Lambda, ECS/Fargate, API Gateway, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager, IAM)
• Postgres and Supabase for backend data storage and APIs
• Snowflake or similar cloud data warehousing platforms
• Integration experience — you've built against underdocumented vendor APIs, handled webhook retries in production, and know that 'the docs say it returns JSON' is not a guarantee.
• Observability as a default, not a phase-two — structured logging, distributed tracing, and alerts that page humans only when humans should be paged.
• Strong understanding of data modeling and data engineering concepts — you know when to normalize, when to denormalize, and why 'just add a JSONB column' is sometimes right and often wrong.
• Ownership-first mindset — you treat the systems you build as yours. You see it, you own it, you ship it.
• Ability to balance speed and long-term architectural thinking — ship behind flags, plan the rollback, and don't stall deploys out of fear.
• Radical transparency and no hoarding — decisions, trade-offs, and 'I tried this and it didn't work' notes all belong in the repo.
• Data-driven problem solver with strong reasoning and clarity in decision-making.
• Excellent communicator with both technical and non-technical teammates.
• Scrappy, resourceful, and motivated to build quickly.
• Curious, humble, and eager to learn.
• Passionate about serving underserved communities and improving healthcare access through technology.
• Member first, always — every technical decision gets filtered through the question: does this make a member's next interaction with us easier or harder?
Preferred:
• NestJS specifically (our current backend framework)
• Terraform or similar IaC
• Sanity CMS
• Auth0
• healthcare or regulated-data environments (HIPAA, SOC 2)
• experience deploying AI agents or LLM-powered workflows
Company:
Thrive Mobile is the world's first healthcare-focused mobile company. Founded in 2022, the company is headquartered in Nashville, USA, with a team of 11-50 employees. The company is currently Early Stage.