Lead Software Engineer (Editor Team)

Requisitos

• **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:** We're building a best-in-class editor for ecommerce conversion, and we need someone to lead that team through it, not just staff it
• This is a hybrid role: half technical team lead, half AI-native product thinker
• You won't just write code faster with AI tools
• You'll understand how AI behaves inside a page builder — what it should generate, suggest, or automate for someone building a landing page or funnel to convert better — and you'll propose and build those features yourself
• You'll also run the team: unblock engineers, make the calls when priorities conflict, and be the person who ships when no one else can
• This is not a hand-off role, and it's not a pure IC role either
• You're accountable for the team's output and for your own. **What You'll Own:** * Technical direction for the editor, including how AI shows up inside the product (generation, layout suggestions, content assist, personalization — whatever we decide moves conversion) * The team's delivery: sprint output, unblocking, code review quality, and stepping in to build when the team is stretched * Incident response and production health for the editor * Ramping and mentoring the rest of the team, including their AI tool usage **What Your Work Will Entail:** 1
• Team Leadership &amp
• Delivery * Own sprint planning, task breakdown, and prioritization for the Editor 2.0 team * Unblock engineers daily — technical blockers, ambiguous requirements, cross-team dependencies * Personally pick up critical-path work when the team is short-handed — this role carries load, it doesn't just delegate it * Run point on code review standards and technical decisions for the team's scope 2
• AI-Native Product Judgment * Understand how AI features behave inside a visual page/funnel builder — not just "use * Copilot to write code faster," but "what should an AI content-suggestion feature do when a merchant drops a new block into their page, and does it actually help them convert" * Propose concrete features: what AI should generate, what it should leave alone, where it fails silently vs. loudly * Push back on AI-feature ideas that sound good in a slide but won't survive contact with real page-building workflows or move conversion 3
• Code Quality &amp
• 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 * Use AI coding tools daily — this is a baseline expectation, not a differentiator * Set the standard for the team: what AI-assisted workflows actually save time vs. add cleanup work * You understand everything you or the team ships — AI accelerates, it doesn't absolve you of the review **What You Bring To This Role:** Technical Environment 1
• 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. 2
• Infrastructure: MariaDB, Redis, AWS (EC2, RDS, CloudWatch, SQS, S3), Docker, GitHub Actions CI/CD * 6+ years professional software engineering experience, with at least 1-2 years in a lead or de facto lead capacity — owned technical direction for a team, not just senior IC work * Hands-on experience in PHY * Hands-on experience building consumer-facing web products at scale — page builders, website/funnel editors, or similarly complex WYSIWYG/visual editing tools strongly preferred * Demonstrated track record shipping AI-powered product features, not just using AI coding tools * Experience working directly with a PM on roadmap and feature definition, not just executing tickets * Comfortable being the primary escalation point for production issues on their product area **Success Metrics:** First 30 days * Ships their first meaningful feature to production and is running point on the team's sprint cadence * Has proposed at least one concrete AI-feature idea grounded in real conversion data, not just intuition Ongoing / steady-state * Team ships against roadmap without the lead becoming the single point of failure — work continues if they're out for a week * At least one AI-native feature they drove goes from idea → shipped, with a measurable lift in conversion (or a clear, honest read on why it didn't move the number) * Engineers on the team are visibly leveling up their own AI-assisted workflows because of this person's standards, not just their own output **What This Role Is Not** * Not a pure people-manager role — this person writes code and ships features * Not a "prompt AI tools all day" role — the AI fluency is table stakes, the differentiator is product judgment about AI inside the product * Not a role for someone who needs a fully-scoped ticket queue — they should be generating the roadmap items together with the product manager, not just executing them **Learn More About ThriveCart:** **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