\nAbout BLEN\nBLENers are passionate about using technology to solve real-world problems. For over 20 years, we've been helping government agencies and businesses transform their digital experience. We bring fresh perspectives to every project, from modernizing legacy systems to building cloud-native applications to experimenting with technology that’s just around the corner. We value building long and enduring partnerships to solve complex challenges by putting humans at the center of all the experiences. Our team thrives on turning tricky problems into solutions that are practical, accessible and performant.\n\n\nAbout this position\nAs a Senior Software Developer II - Full Stack at BLEN, you will take on a highly strategic role in designing, architecting, and developing scalable, robust digital solutions. This role demands a combination of deep technical expertise in both front-end and back-end technologies and the ability to collaborate closely with tech leads and sometimes take on tech lead responsibilities. You will be expected to think strategically, mentor team members, and deliver high-impact solutions while embracing ownership and accountability. In addition, this position requires a strong background in cloud services, system architecture, AI toolings, and an eagerness to innovate by building prototypes and transforming proof of concepts into production-ready features\n\n\n\nWhat we would like from you\n* Technical Leadership and Strategy\n* Collaborate closely with the tech lead, taking responsibility for the system's architecture and development strategy\n* Step in as the acting Tech Lead when required, making key technical decisions that ensure alignment with overall product and business goals\n* Design and implement scalable, efficient, and maintainable systems and architectures\n* Work on building prototypes and proof of concepts that later become major production features\n\n\n\n* Software Development and Problem-Solving\n* Leverage extensive full-stack development experience to lead high-complexity, outcome-driven projects\n* Proactively diagnose and solve architectural and technical issues, driving quality improvements in existing systems\n* Work hands-on with modern tech stacks, including advanced usage of cloud platforms, ensuring scalable system designs\n* Actively contribute to the development and deployment of AI-driven solutions and applications\n\n\n\n* Mentorship and Team Development\n* Mentor and support junior engineers, focusing on transferring skills in system design, cloud services, and AI technologies\n* Provide technical guidance across teams, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation\n* Engage in technical interviews, assessing candidates' skills and cultural fit\n\n\n\n* Communication and Stakeholder Engagement\n* Present design documents, architecture diagrams, and technical solutions to clients, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams\n* Communicate technical strategies and developments effectively across the team and external partners\n\n\n\n* Process Improvement and Innovation\n* Drive improvements in software development processes and practices, with a focus on high performance and scalability\n* Champion best practices in system design, architecture, cloud services, and AI development\n* Stay up to date with emerging technologies and trends in AI and cloud computing, applying this knowledge to drive innovation in the organization\n\n\n\nBasic qualifications\n* Essential Requirements\n* 10+ years of engineering experience, with a proven track record of designing and developing scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems and architectures\n* Extensive experience with full stack development using Python, React, Next.js, Node.js, Java or Ruby on Rails\n* Hands-on experience with Python and AI toolings, including familiarity with large language models (LLMs) and other modern AI frameworks\n* Strong expertise in containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes, ensuring systems are scalable and maintainable in a cloud-native environment\n* Experience working with both relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, and NoSQL databases like Firestore, MongoDB, ensuring effective database design, optimization, and scalability\n* Hands-on experience integrating external APIs and third-party services into applications\n* Strong cloud services management and configuration skills with AWS, Azure, or GCP, leveraging these platforms for high availability, scalability, and security\n* Proficiency in version control systems (e.g., Git), and experience managing large, complex codebases\n* Robust problem-solving skills, particularly in diagnosing and resolving complex system issues related to distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and application performance\n* \n\n* Preferred Skills and Experience\n* Prior experience leading engineering teams or acting as a Tech Lead\n* Experience building AI applications and their underlying infrastructure\n* Familiarity with DevOps tools and best practices\n* Ability to obtain a Public Trust Clearance\n\n\n\nRequirement\n* Must be a US Citizen or legal resident and able to work domestically\n* Must be located in the United States\n* Must be able to attain low-level security clearance\n\n\n\nPerks\n* Work from anywhere.\n* Competitive pay.\n* A contribution to your health benefit.\n* The chance to work on high-visibility projects and make a significant impact.\n\n\n\nGet to know us\n* We are a small, creative and highly technical team.\n* Our heroes are the scrappy folks that dare to dream and do great things. We love people that care more about doing the right thing than taking a shortcut.\n* We believe in finishing projects and floor our clients by how much we cared about their project.\n* We believe in integrity and because we're small, we are very selective of our partners and clients.\n* We do not use phrases like 'human resource' because you are NOT a resource. You are a team member and we will treat you like one.\n\n\n\nWhat you should expect from us\n* We will treat you fairly.\n* We give you space to grow both personally and professionally.\n* We will hear your ideas even when we disagree -- especially when we disagree.\n* We will be equitable with our success and be honest with our challenges.\n* We will always tell you the truth. Even when the truth is difficult.\n\n\n\nBLEN's hiring process\n* Resume Review: Our team evaluates your resume and online profiles (LinkedIn, GitHub, etc.) to assess qualification fit.\n* Role-Specific Assessment (depending on role, due in 24 - 48 hours): Complete a take-home assignment or live coding session to demonstrate technical skills. For this role, this will be the assessment: https://github.com/blencorp/blen-fullstack-engineer-take-home\n* Hiring Manager Screen (30 mins): Dive deeper into your experience and the role with the hiring manager.\n* Virtual Interviews (2 rounds, 30-45 min each): Technical and competency-based interviews aligned with Blen's values, conducted via Google Meet.\n* Decision & Offer: Post-interview, the hiring team decides. If selected, your recruiter will extend an offer and assist with logistics.\n\n\n\n\n\n$135,000 - $170,000 a yearThe salary range represents the compensation we expect to offer candidates who can perform the core responsibilities with minimal additional training. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as skill set, level of experience, and scope of responsibility. Our recruitment team is available to discuss your specific salary requirements and to provide more information about how we determine compensation. We are committed to fair and transparent pay practices and encourage open dialogue about our compensation structure throughout the application process. We look forward to learning more about your qualifications and how they align with our framework.\nEqual Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities\nThe contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c).\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Python, Docker, DevOps, Java, Cloud, Ruby and Senior jobs that are similar:\n\n $52,500 — $95,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWashington, DC

\nABOUT THRIVE MARKET \n\n\nThrive Market was founded in 2014 with a mission to make healthy and sustainable living easy and affordable for everyone. As an online, membership-based market, we deliver the highest quality healthy, and sustainable products at member-only prices. Every day, we help our 1.4M+ Members find better products, support better brands, and build a better world in the process. We are a profitable, half-billion-dollar revenue business proving that mission-focused companies can succeed. We are also a Certified B Corporation, recently became a Public Benefit Corporation, and are a Climate Neutral Certified company. Join us as we bring healthy and sustainable living to millions of Americans in the years to come.\n\n\nTHE ROLE  \n\n\nAt Thrive Market, our Platform team is in a constant state of innovation, crafting highly-performant and scalable services that empower our product teams to create exceptional customer experiences. Here, you will find the autonomy to drive critical initiatives that not only advance our mission but also propel our platform to new heights of excellence. We are seeking an experienced, hands-on DevOps Manager to lead our DevOps team. This person will drive our cloud infrastructure and the continuous delivery of our applications/services. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software development, cloud infrastructure, and service operations, with a passion for empowering developers, streamlining processes, and automating away toil. \n\n\nIf you have read The Phoenix Project, Accelerate, The DevOps Handbook, and/or the Google SRE book, you will fit right in.\n\n\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES: \n* Team Leadership:\n* Manage, mentor, and grow a team of DevOps engineers. \n* Foster a collaborative and high-performance culture of continuous improvement within the team. \n* Level up the team through cross-training and strategic task assignments, continually challenging them to raise the bar. \n* Conduct regular performance reviews and provide feedback. \n* Work closely with development, QA, and IT teams to ensure smooth and reliable operation of software and systems. \n* Facilitate communication between teams and stakeholders. \n\n\n\n* Continuous Delivery:\n* Implement and manage continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for the company. \n* Identify and remove bottlenecks in the software delivery process. \n* Promote best practices for software deployment. \n\n\n\n* Infrastructure Management:\n* Architect, improve, and administer AWS cloud infrastructure and services. \n* Leverage AWS-managed services wherever possible. \n* Create automated orchestration and deployment solutions using Puppet, Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes. \n* Write and support scripts and automation using Python, Ruby, Bash, JavaScript, and Java. \n* Manage and optimize large-scale, cloud-hosted MySQL, Postgres, Redis, and Elasticsearch DBs.\n* Lead efforts for disaster recovery, capacity expansion, and system upgrades. \n* Oversee the provisioning, configuration, and monitoring of infrastructure. \n* Ensure system reliability, availability, and performance. \n\n\n\n* Automation: \n* Encourage DevOps engineers and application developers to streamline processes and automate their work whenever possible. \n* Develop and maintain automation for infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment. \n* Advocate for and implement automation in all aspects of the software lifecycle.\n\n\n\n* Security and Compliance: \n* Conduct security audits, vulnerability assessments, and system hardening initiatives, including maintaining PCI and SOX compliance. \n* Ensure that systems and processes adhere to industry best practices for security and compliance. \n\n\n\n* Monitoring and Incident Management:\n* Implement and manage monitoring tools to ensure system health and performance. \n* Lead incident response efforts and post-incident reviews to learn from failures and mitigate and prevent future occurrences. \n\n\n\n* Project Management: \n* Manage JIRA ticket creation, grooming, ticket/epic management, and documentation and keep it up to date.\n\n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS:\n* Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).\n* 8+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, system administration, or software development.\n* 2+ years of experience in a leadership or managerial role. \n* Experience in a startup environment and larger, scaled organizations is a plus!\n* Extensive experience building and maintaining complex cloud infrastructure on AWS. AWS Certified - AWS Solutions Architect or similar is a plus. \n* Extensive experience in a DevOps/SRE/Systems Engineering role, with strong experience developing applications in one of the following: Python, Ruby, Groovy, Go. \n* Strong experience in managing Linux-based infrastructure, preferably Debian/Ubuntu.\n* Deep knowledge and experience with Docker and Kubernetes.\n* Experience using and maintaining IaC/config management systems and deployment tools, including Terraform, Puppet, and Ansible.\n* Experience troubleshooting production problems and leading multiple teams to resolve large-scale production issues.\n* Proficiency with continuous integration and deployments using Jenkins, Concourse, and GitLab CI; knowledge of A/B, in-place, rolling, and phased deployment methodologies.\n* Understanding of monitoring and systems tools likeLogstash, Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic, etc.\n* Good understanding of networking fundamentals and protocols.\n* Basic understanding of storage architectures and design.\n* Good critical thinking and problem-solving skills.\n* Sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on the organization's success.\n* Effective interpersonal and communication skills - we work cohesively and want to bring in folks who seek to drive unity.\n* Ability to independently lead the team and execute projects promptly. \n* Proficiency with Atlassian Jira and Confluence for project management and documentation is a plus.\n* Curious, hungry, proactive, results-oriented, and data-driven; thrives in fast-paced, team-oriented environments.\n\n\n\nBELONG TO A BETTER COMPANY:\n* Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision, life and disability)\n* Competitive salary (DOE) + equity\n* 401k plan\n* 9 Days of Observed Holiday\n* Flexible Paid Time Off\n* Subsidized ClassPass Membership with access to fitness classes and wellness and beauty experiences\n* Ability to work in our beautiful co-working space at WeWork in Playa Vista and other locations\n* Free Thrive Market membership with exclusive employee discount\n* Coverage for Life Coaching & Therapy Sessions on our holistic mental health and well-being platform\n\n\nWe're a community of more than 1 Million + members who are united by a singular belief: It should be easy to find better products, support better brands, make better choices, and build a better world in the process.\nAt Thrive Market, we believe in building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic culture. If you are excited about this role along with our mission and values, we encourage you to apply.\nThrive Market is an EEO/Veterans/Disabled/LGBTQ employer\nAt Thrive Market, our goal is to be a diverse and inclusive workplace that is representative, at all job levels, of the members we serve and the communities we operate in. We’re proud to be an inclusive company and an Equal Opportunity Employer and we prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates are critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. If you’re thinking about joining our team, we expect that you would agree!\nIf you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please email us at [email protected] and we’ll be happy to assist you.\nEnsure your Thrive Market job offer is legitimate and don't fall victim to fraud. Thrive Market never seeks payment from job applicants. Thrive Market recruiters will only reach out to applicants from an @thrivemarket.com email address. For added security, where possible, apply through our company website at www.thrivemarket.com.\n© Thrive Market 2024 All rights reserved.\n\nJOB INFORMATION:\n* Compensation Description - The base salary range for this position is $175,000 - $225,000/Per Year. \n* Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on several factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and geographic location. \n* Total Compensation includes Base Salary, Stock Options, Health & Wellness Benefits, Flexible PTO, and more! \n\n\n\n\n\n#LI-DR1 \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Docker, DevOps and Cloud jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $100,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nLos Angeles or Remote