Full Stack Engineer

Summary

Join Thinkific as a Staff Full Stack Engineer and become one of our "power implementers." You will collaborate with other engineers and architects to shape the technical direction of your domain, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to the overall technical strategy. Responsibilities include owning a technical domain, contributing to technical strategy, collaborating with stakeholders to define software project requirements, advocating for engineering best practices, leading technical discussions, and participating in on-call rotations. The ideal candidate has 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a technical leadership position, and expertise in backend and frontend technologies. Thinkific offers a competitive compensation package, flexible paid time off, comprehensive health benefits, flexible work options, a learning and growth fund, and a supportive work environment.

Requirements

• Has experience working in a staff engineering role
• Has 7+ years of experience working as a software engineer, with 2+ years in a technical leadership position
• Is an expert in architectural approaches related to the technical domain
• Backend: Event-driven architecture, domain-driven design, and multi-tenant systems
• Frontend: Component libraries and frameworks, design systems, accessibility, internationalization & globalization
• Understands and is proficient in multiple related languages
• Backend: Ruby, Golang, or Node and also has expert-level knowledge of relational and non-relational database technologies such as Postgres, Redis, ElasticSearch, DynamoDB
• Frontend: React, Next.js, Node, TypeScript, GraphQL, HTML, CSS
• Is experienced with asynchronous job processing, using queuing technologies such as SNS, SQS, and Sidekiq
• Love 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
• Combines strong product thinking with adaptability, ownership, and collaborative leadership. They know when to lead, when to listen, and how to elevate the team around them

Responsibilities

• Own a technical domain within our system and be accountable for operations and SLOs related to performance, reliability, security, as well as ongoing architectural evolution and maintenance of this domain and related documentation as it aligns with overall technical strategy and guiding principles
• Contribute to the overall technical strategy, helping the business make technical decisions by providing high level technical estimates, options, and feasibility opinions, and creating and reviewing proposals for new technologies, patterns and implementations
• Collaborate with engineering managers, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to define requirements and specifications for software projects
• Advocate for engineering best practices by sharing knowledge, teaching others new skills, and contributing to improving engineering standards, tooling, and processes
• Lead technical discussions, mentor other engineers to grow and improve the overall team's productivity
• Be a core implementer for your team, role modeling with clean, efficient, and maintainable code in accordance with best practices, coding and testing standards and be responsible for upholding these standards within your team
• Participate in on-call rotations, troubleshooting production issues to maintain service reliability

Preferred Qualifications

• Backend: Experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and streaming technologies such as Kafka, Spark, Kinesis
• An understanding of how to work with infrastructure as code technologies, such as Terraform
• Experience with containers and orchestration via Docker and Kubernetes
• Frontend: Experience with compliance to accessibility standards such as WCAG

Benefits

• A competitive compensation package including base salary, equity, team-wide bonuses, and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
• Flexible Paid Time Off to maintain mental and physical health. Our team is encouraged to take a minimum 4 weeks of vacation, plus Thinker Holidays (extended long weekends in the summer) and time off for the December holiday season
• Health Benefits and Wellness: Comprehensive benefits starting on Day 1 include health, vision, and dental coverage for you and your family, $3,000 for mental health care, a short-term health plan, and an additional health or personal spending account. Plus, family friendly benefits include generous parental leave top-ups for up to 32 weeks, as well as fertility coverage and personalized return to work options
• Flexible Work . Choose to work from home from anywhere in Canada, at our Vancouver HQ, a co-working space, or anywhere there’s wifi for a change of scenery
• Learning & Growth. An annual $1500 USD Learn and Grow fund for conferences, seminars, or courses, plus training, mentorship, coaching, and internal promotion opportunities
• A home office setup so you’re ready to succeed with a company-owned Macbook Pro and a budget to order a desk, chair, or any accessories to help you work comfortably and productively