Job Description

Build the products and platform that power customer-first monetisation

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Thanks is building a customer-first monetisation platform that delivers sustainable growth - for advertisers, publishers, and customers. We're operating at scale today and entering a phase where execution quality, speed, and sound technical judgment matter more than ever.

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We're hiring a Senior Engineer to design and ship meaningful product improvements across our platform. You'll independently drive work end-to-end, bring clarity to complex decisions, and consistently deliver at pace in a high-trust, high-impact environment.

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This role is hands‐on, product‐minded, and execution-focused.

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What You'll Do

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- Ship impactful features end-to-end: Design, build, test, and deploy frontend and backend functionality across our TypeScript / Node / React stack
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- Design thoughtful solutions: Independently design technical solutions within our architecture, clearly communicating trade-offs while balancing speed, scalability, and long-term impact
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- Own meaningful surface area: Take responsibility for a subsystem or domain area, ensuring quality, maintainability, and steady improvement over time
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- Bring product thinking into engineering: Challenge scope when needed, contribute to sequencing decisions, and ensure we're solving the right problems in the right way
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- Maintain high engineering standards: Write clean, well-tested code, participate actively in code reviews, and contribute to a culture of contextual quality
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- Support production reliability: Troubleshoot issues, resolve bugs, and ensure performance and stability across live systems
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- Collaborate openly: Communicate clearly about progress, risks, and trade-offs, contributing to a high-trust,



feedback-oriented engineering culture
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Requirements

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What we're looking for

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- Strong experience building production systems using TypeScript, Node.js, and React
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- Ability to independently design scalable solutions and clearly communicate technical trade-offs
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- Strong software design fundamentals and system thinking
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- Comfort owning features from problem definition through to production
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- Pragmatic judgment - you balance ideal architecture with shipping value
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- Comfort operating in ambiguity and actively creating structure where it's missing
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- High emotional intelligence and strong communication skills
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- Solid internal drive - you take pride in your craft and care deeply about the quality and impact of what you ship
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- Uses AI thoughtfully to augment problem solving and delivery - accelerating exploration, debugging, and implementation while maintaining high standards for quality, correctness, and ownership
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- A genuine ownership mindset - you take responsibility for outcomes and follow through
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Nice to have

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- Experience building and scaling production systems in product-led startup or scale-up environments
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- Exposure to adtech, marketplaces, or performance-driven platforms
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- Familiarity with Cloudflare (Workers, Queues, KV)
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- Exposure to data systems such as ClickHouse or similar OLAP platforms
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- Understanding of experimentation frameworks
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- Experience contributing to architectural discussions in growing systems
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Our stack

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- Backend - Node.js, TypeScript, Turborepo
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- Frontend - React, Next.js, React Native
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- Infrastructure - Cloudflare (Workers, Queues, KV)
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- Data - Prisma, PlanetScale, ClickHouse
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- Testing & CI - Vitest, Playwright, GitHub Actions
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- Observability - Datadog, Sentry, OpenTelemetry
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- Experimentation - Statsig
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Benefits

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Why Thanks?

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At Thanks, we're building a customer‐first monetisation platform that delivers growth without compromise - for advertisers, publishers, and customers alike. We power growth for the world's leading brands, delivering tens of millions of high‐value "thanks" moments every month.

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What makes this role different:

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- Real ownership: You'll drive meaningful product work end-to-end, with trust and autonomy.
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- Impact you can see: Your work directly influences performance, reliability, and growth.
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- High standards, low ego: We value thoughtful decisions, clear communication, and strong follow-through.
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- Attractive compensation: Including worthwhile equity.
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- Flexibility with intent: We're Sydney‐headquartered and value in‐person collaboration, ideally a couple of days per week. That said, we care more about leadership, impact, and outcomes than rigid rules - and we're open to exceptional candidates across Australia's east coast.
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We're building something deliberately - not copying what already exists. If you're excited by product‐led engineering and solving complex problems at pace, we'd love to hear from you.

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Let's build something extraordinary.

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📌 Senior Software Engineer (New South Wales)
🏢 Thanks
📍 New South Wales