Software Engineer

About ThriveCart

ThriveCart is a powerful platform used by over 50,000 people worldwide to generate over $5B in sales. Included within the ThriveCart platform is a learning management system (LMS), affiliate management, cart and checkout functionality, making it a top solution for creators, coaches, consultants, and other businesses.

We integrate with everything you use and have a simple, clean UI with numerous features that allow customers to build income from existing traffic and we are the highest-converting cart for online businesses. Our business is growing, profitable, and backed by LTV SaaS Growth Funds, and we are looking to expand our footprint amongst online businesses.

Location

Remote ( Europe / LATAM)

Job Overview

Full-ownership software engineer responsible for building a new system in TypeScript that will replace our existing PHP system, while maintaining the current PHP system throughout the transition. This is not a hand-off role — you take a problem from requirement to production and own it there. You'll work across both stacks, make technical decisions, and be accountable for what you ship.

We expect you to use AI coding tools as a core part of how you work. Not occasionally — daily. Your velocity, code quality, and problem-solving should reflect effective AI tool use. What we care about is judgment: understanding what you ship, making the right decisions, and knowing when to push back on AI output.

This description applies across experience levels (L1–L4). Interview depth and expectations are calibrated to your level.

Tasks

What You'll Own

Features from requirements to production: you break them down, build them, ship them, monitor them

Technical decisions within your scope, with clear trade-off reasoning

Quality of your code and the areas you touch

Responding to incidents and dev-escalations in your domain

Building the new TypeScript system that will replace the legacy PHP platform

Maintaining and supporting the existing PHP system throughout the transition

What Your Work Will Entail

1. Feature Development

Take feature requests, break them into tasks, estimate, and deliver independently

Build the new TypeScript-based system designed to replace our existing PHP platform

Maintain and support the current PHP system in parallel, until the new system is fully migrated

Write clean, tested, production-ready code that meets team standards

Make technical decisions for features and explain trade-offs clearly

Monitor your features in production — logs, metrics, alerts

Leave the codebase better than you found it (refactor, document, reduce debt)

2. Production Ownership & Incident Response

Respond to dev-escalations with urgency — investigate issues, communicate findings, contribute to resolution

Participate in incident response: at all levels, you are expected to show up, help investigate, and support resolution

L4+: Drive incident response for your domain — coordinate investigation, delegate tasks, communicate status to stakeholders, and ensure post-mortems happen

Write runbooks and keep documentation current as you build

Share on-call rotation after ramp-up period

3. Code Quality & Testing

Write unit and integration tests as part of feature work, not as an afterthought

Participate actively in code reviews — give thoughtful feedback, act on feedback you receive

Identify edge cases and risks during planning, not after deployment

4. AI-Augmented Development (Expected, Not Optional)

Use AI coding tools daily: code generation, debugging, test writing, exploring unfamiliar parts of the codebase, code review acceleration

Your output should be measurably faster because of AI tools

You understand everything you ship — AI is an accelerator, not a replacement for judgment

L3+: Help teammates develop effective AI workflows; contribute to team standards for AI tool use

L4+: Set team standards for AI tool usage — evaluate what delivers real value, ensure quality isn't sacrificed for speed

5. Collaboration

Work closely with Product, Design, QA, and other engineers

Contribute meaningfully to sprint planning and technical discussions

L3+: Mentor L1/L2 engineers through code reviews, pairing, and sharing knowledge

What You Bring To This Role

Technical Environment

Primary stack: TypeScript/Node.js for the new system you'll build, and PHP 7.4/8+ with Laravel for the existing system you'll maintain during the transition.

Infrastructure: MariaDB, Redis, AWS (EC2, RDS, CloudWatch, SQS, S3), Docker, GitHub Actions CI/CD

This role requires active, hands-on TypeScript experience and past professional experience with PHP. Hands-on experience integrating payment platforms such as Stripe and PayPal is required .

Expectations by Level

L1: Works on well-scoped tickets with guidance. Learning the codebase and practices. Uses AI tools to learn faster and ship more.

L2: Independently owns features. Minimal guidance needed on implementation. Noticeably faster because of AI tool usage.

L3: Leads small projects. Mentors L1/L2. Improves the codebase proactively. Teaches effective AI workflows.

L4: Technical authority for a domain. Drives cross-team projects. Sets team AI standards. Drives incident response.

Success Metrics

Early on, you'll ship your first feature to production, understand the core architecture, and get your local development environment set up. From there, you'll be independently shipping features end-to-end and contributing to code reviews. As you grow further, you'll contribute meaningfully to technical discussions and handle dev-escalations in your area.

On-Call

Shared rotation (~1 week/month after ramp-up). Critical: 15 min. High: 1 hour.

Our Values are

Commit to Excellence

Find a Way

Help Each Other

Keep Growing

Data First

Our team and product are growing rapidly- we achieved YoY growth of 64% from 2022-2023, and we’re just getting started. We believe in open communication, clear goal setting, and that people do best when they have a growth mindset and want to get things done. Our team comes from diverse backgrounds and companies like Shopify, Salesforce, and BigCommerce, and we are running like an independent SaaS company within a PE fund.

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