Staff Software Developer

Who Are We?

Thanx is a leading loyalty and guest engagement platform for restaurants. Thanx helps regional and national restaurant brands grow customer lifetime value with easy-to-use lifecycle marketing automations and innovative customer loyalty tools focused on access, status, and personalization over rote discounts. Thanx’s proprietary credit card tokenization technology dramatically increases the volume and accuracy of purchase data which sits at the core of our CRM suite of tools and our app and web-based ordering experiences deliver industry-leading conversion and repeat purchasing. We were named to Nation’s Restaurant News “2020 Power List” as one of the 50 most influential innovators in food-service.

Thanx has gained the investment of prominent venture and growth equity luminaries, having raised more than $30M from elite investors such as M33 Growth, Ribbit Capital, and Sequoia Capital. Core to our success is a culture that has attracted some of the best talent from across the country; we are proud of incredibly strong employee tenure, track record of internal promotions, and impressive alumni network. We credit our cultural “core behaviors” with these accomplishments: Find A Way, Focus on What Matters, Say “Thanx” Genuinely, Welcome Diverse Perspectives, and Empathy Over Ego.

What You’ll Do:

• Architect and Develop Robust Software Solutions: Establish key architectural patterns or technology patterns that result in significant productivity gains for all of engineering and build well crafted, scalable, maintainable, and resilient software across the entire stack.
• Owns best practices, patterns, and go-to technology: Apply leverage across the entire platform through a complete understanding of the entire platform business logic and a deep understanding of its architecture. Enhance it’s software quality, stability and resilience.
• Collaborate and Share Expertise: Engage proactively in pull requests and spike documents, actively sharing insights and expertise to foster a collaborative team environment and drive continuous improvement.
• Tech Debt Management: Collaborate with the team to systematically identify and mitigate technical debt, ensuring a sustainable and optimized software development process over time.
• Learn and Grow: Stay updated on emerging technologies, tools, and best practices in software development. Look 3-6 months ahead and ensure that the business does not run into technology bottlenecks. Level up all engineers in the organization through mentorship.

Who You Are:

• 10+ years experience as a developer working in large-scale, high throughput platforms with modern web frameworks, such as RoR, Django, or similar
• You’ve worked with modern front-end technologies, such as React, Angular, Typescript or similar.
• Proven experience in planning and leading large projects involving multiple stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills. You must be able to collaborate effectively with teams in a remote environment, and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.

What We Use: 

• Frontend: React, React Native, Redux, Typescript
• Backend: Ruby on Rails, Golang, gRPC
• Infrastructure: AWS, Fargate, Terraform, Docker
• Data: Fivetran, Snowflake, dbt, Looker
• Development: CircleCI, Github, Datadog, Sentry

Compensation Range:

$200,000 - $250,000

Bonus Points:

• Direct experience with Ruby on Rails, React & React Native
• B.Sc or higher in Computer Science
• Experience with deploying infrastructure as code with SDKs like AWS CDK or Terraform
• Experience with Snowflake, Fivetran and DBT
• You have worked with geographically distributed teams
• Experience working at an early stage startup

Ready to change your life? Apply now!

We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Thanx will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in a manner consistent with local requirements.