LTV SaaS Growth Fund
- Senior Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer
Engineering · Austin, United States
Job description
About ThriveCart:
ThriveCart is a leading affiliate management, sales and checkout solution used by over 30,000 SMEs globally. ThriveCart is one of the largest GMV producers worldwide, boasting billions in annual transactions. 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 Fund VIII, and we are looking to expand our footprint amongst online businesses.
Location:
Our management team is based in Austin, TX, and you will be expected to be in the office at least 1 day/week on Tuesdays to be with your team.
About You:
- You enjoy solving hard problems, unraveling technical mazes, and figuring out solutions.
- You've worked with cloud-based SaaS solutions for SMBs
- Your preferred coding languages are PHP, Javascript, and MySQL
- For cloud platforms, your go-to is AWS, preferably with payment-based APIs
- Startups are your thing- you enjoy seeing your work having a huge impact and seeing a product develop over time.
- Collaborating in the office is exciting for you, but so is having a global team of developers and other colleagues.
- Entrepreneurial spirit or previous experience in early startups. You think outside of the box and are resourceful and fiscally responsible
- Possess strong communication skills to set expectations and provide progress with stakeholders
What your Work Will Entail:
- Providing solutions to technical challenges and issues that affect multiple technical areas simultaneously
- Working collaboratively with the existing development team to implement features, functionality and bug fixes
- Developing and shipping code to solve unique business needs across multiple areas of the platform
- Working closely with the support team to investigate and fix issues customers may be experiencing
- Being on hand to monitor the platform's performance and diagnose and debug service issues or outages
- Collaborating with CTO, product, and leadership teams on prioritization and workload.
What You Bring To This Role:
- Demonstrable experience working in PHP, JavaScript (Node.js +cross-browser frontend), MySQL, HTML & CSS/SCSS
- A solid understanding of cloud-based architecture (especially within AWS- Lambda, SQS, EC2, RDS, and more)
- Experience integrating payment-related APIs (Stripe, PayPal, Braintree, etc.)
- Comfortable working with PHP and Node-based SDKs (AWS SDK, Slack SDK, etc.)
- Used Ansible for server provisioning/maintenance
- Exposure to Vue
- Development work with membership platforms (ie: Wishlist, MemberPress) and page building tools
- Solid track record of experimenting at speed and at scale.
- Experience working across multiple time zones
About LTV SaaS Growth Fund:
LTV SaaS Fund is a U.S. investment fund primarily focused on SaaS and software investments in privately held businesses. LTV SaaS Fund seeks short and long-term investment opportunities, with a return rate at approximately 174% over a 3-5 year term. We invest in a wide selection of businesses, maintaining a core focus on SaaS businesses and recurring marketplace apps to manage risk while maintaining a diversified investment base. The core area of our investment projects is in the U.S., with offices in New York and San Francisco. Yet, the investment scope of LTV SaaS Fund does not stop, there. We are represented across three continents, securing the best acquisition candidates and in-house expertise to deliver consistent growth at scale.