Job Description

Are you a Senior Full Stack Engineer, who is  passionate about mentoring and leading impactful technical projects? We’re looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to join our team at Thinkific.

As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, you will work across our application stack to ensure business milestones are met while also investigating, assessing, and fixing defects within the product. You’ll lead medium to large feature projects from conception to completion, working closely with our Engineering, Product Management, and Product Design teams. Reporting to the Engineering Manager, by ensuring seamless delivery of platform features, your contributions will directly impact the quality and efficiency of our platform

Your goal will be to lead feature projects to successful completion and mentor other engineers. Here’s how you’ll accomplish this:

• Lead medium to large feature projects in our agile environment, from conception to completion, working with stakeholders  to take projects through shaping, scoping, and execution while mitigating project risks as a team
• Author code that is reliable, well-rounded and shows a thorough understanding of our best practices to other team members
• Effectively diagnose  and troubleshoot problems within the Thinkific platform
• Participate in architectural design, review, and implementation of production-quality features
• Actively help others to coordinate and design architecture that is fit for the coding area while identifying common patterns that will reduce technical debt and enable efficiency and quality
• Participate in effort and complexity estimation for new/proposed product features and tasks
• Share knowledge with others through mentorship, clear documentation, code reviews, pair programming, and training sessions. Contribute to collaborative and enriching code reviews in an environment of continuous improvement
• Work with your team to conduct new technology research; bring fresh ideas and concepts to bear on product development
• Foster an open, collaborative, and inclusive environment

The person we have in mind likely:

• Has 7+ years of experience working in a full stack development role and at least 1+ years of experience in a SaaS environment
• Has advanced knowledge of modern server-side programming languages (Ruby, Python, Node, etc.)
• Deep familiarity with object-oriented programming paradigm
• Is knowledgeable and experienced with modern web frameworks (Ruby on Rails, Django, etc.)
• Has experience with ES6 and at least one modern JavaScript libraries/framework such as React, Svelte, Angular, Vue, etc.
• Demonstrates a practical understanding of Web APIs, HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Showcases the ability to design and implement RESTful and GraphQL services
• Has experience with MVC-style web application architecture and web server technologies like WebSockets, Nginx, etc.
• Has experience with relational databases, SQL and engines like PostgreSQL, MySQ
• Loves to learn and grow. They’ve found (and keep looking for) ways to level up their skills in this field, whether that’s through formal education, gaining professional experience, or maybe even building their own business
• Has experience working in code bases of different ages and demands. Can surface multiple solutions that consider the context of the project

These things would also be nice, but we think you could learn them on the job:

• Has intermediate to advanced knowledge of front-end languages and frameworks (Javascript, Ember.js, Riot.js, Angular, etc.)
• Has senior to advanced knowledge of back-end languages and frameworks. After a few months on the job, able to produce Ruby on Rails code at a senior level with minimal guidance other than peer debates and reviews.
• Feels experienced and knowledgeable with NoSQL and key-value database systems handling data at scale.

Please note: the majority of this team is located in the PST timezone. Some adherence to PST working hours would be expected.

The recruitment compensation range for this position is $119,000 – $171,00 CAD. Your specific compensation within this range is determined based on your job-related skills, knowledge, experience, and our internal equity assessment.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging & Accessibility

This is just our initial idea of who we’re looking for! At Thinkific, we know that people have unique career journeys. If your experience is close to what we’ve described but you feel that you might be missing a few of the requirements, please still apply! We believe in equal opportunity and are committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging across every facet of our business.We’re also committed to providing a comfortable and accessible interview experience for every candidate. If there are any accommodations our team can make throughout our hiring process (big or small), please let us know