Thinkific is a software platform that gives anyone the ability to easily create and sell online courses, build vibrant communities, and monetize memberships. We believe in impactful and innovative work: our team of 260+ Thinkers is building and expanding an incredible product that empowers Creator Educators and businesses around the globe while working collaboratively to learn, grow, and succeed together. Join us to see how we’re building one of the best workplaces in Canadian tech!
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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.
What you can expect if you join Thinkific:
👏 An amazing team of talented, passionate, and kind Thinkers. Together, we’ve built an amazing, award-winning culture—we’re a Certified Great Place to Work and one of Canada's Top Small & Medium Employers!
🚀 The chance to build, improve, and innovate on a platform that’s driving positive impact for thousands of businesses and millions of students around the world.
💸 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.
🍦Eats and Treats. $50 CAD per month to treat yourself with snacks, lunch, or groceries to cook at home.
💙 A place where you can bring your whole self to work. We know that different perspectives lead to amazing ideas, more innovation, and, ultimately, our success as a company. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds, experiences, beliefs, identities, and statuses. Whoever you are—we can't wait to meet you!
The Thinkific Vancouver office operates on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations of the Coast Salish People. We encourage everyone to learn more about the original caretakers of the land that you currently occupy.
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What We Do
Thinkific makes it easy for thousands of independent experts and companies to quickly create and deliver stunning online courses on their own sites.
At Thinkific, we are passionate about helping our customers grow their businesses through education.
Our team cares deeply about doing meaningful, innovative work: we're developing an incredible product that empowers course creators around the globe, while working collaboratively to learn and pursue success together.
Join our team: http://thinkific.com/resources/careers
Our product includes:
- Support for countless file types, including video, PDF, audio, HTML, quizzes, surveys, and outside resources such as Typeform, Articulate, Storyline and more, to deliver a media-rich student experience
- Full e-commerce and student enrollment/tracking functionality, with comprehensive internal reporting
- Robust integrations with industry-leading tools such as Segment.io provides access to data from over 100+ systems
- and much more!
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