Senior Full Stack Engineer

Thinkific is a learning commerce platform. We unite community, courses, and content with commerce, so experts and businesses can create transformative learning experiences to grow their revenue. We build products that create impact and raise the bar on what’s possible through online learning.

Our team of 300+ Thinkers supports learning 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 North American tech!

We believe every candidate should have a fair, inclusive, and overall great experience when exploring a new role with Thinkific. Our hiring team is here to guide you through each step, so you always know what to expect!

Are you a Senior Full Stack Engineer who thrives on solving complex problems, building impactful products, and working alongside a collaborative team? We’re looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to join us at Thinkific.

As a
Senior Full Stack Engineer
, you’ll work across our application stack to help us meet business goals while investigating, assessing, and fixing product issues along the way. As a Senior Engineer, you’ll also play a key role in mentoring others and supporting the growth of your teammates. In this role, you will work closely with our Engineering, Product Management, and Product Design teams to help translate business requirements and specifications into delivered platform features that create real value for our users.

Your goal will be to lead medium-to-large feature projects from conception to completion in our agile environment. Here’s how you’ll accomplish this:

• Author code that is reliable, well-rounded, and sets a high standard for the team
• Effectively diagnose and troubleshoot problems within the Thinkific platform
• Participate in architectural design, review, and implementation of scalable, production-quality features
• Contribute to scalable, well-aligned architecture while identifying patterns that reduce technical debt, improve efficiency, and support long-term code quality
• Participate in effort and complexity estimation for new product features and tasks
• Share knowledge with others through mentorship, clear documentation, code reviews, pair programming, and training sessions
• Work with your team to research and advocate for new technologies that can elevate our product and processes

• Has 5+ years of experience working in a full-stack development role, and at least 1+ years of experience working in a SaaS environment
• Has hands-on professional experience working with Ruby on Rails
• Is knowledgeable and experienced with modern web frameworks and libraries, particularly Next.js and React
• Has advanced knowledge of server-side languages and frameworks (Ruby, Node, etc.)
• Showcases the ability to design and implement Graph
  
  QL APIs
• Has experience with relational databases, SQL, and engines like PostgreSQL
• Adaptable and a proven problem solver
• Has experience in instrumenting and monitoring applications with tools like New Relic or Data Dog etc.
• 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

• Experience building real-time AI web applications
• Knowledge and experience with cloud-based server infrastructures, particularly Cloudflare

We’re committed to fair and transparent pay that reflects both where you’re at and where you can grow. This role has a salary range of $120,000-$150,000-$180,000 in Canada, designed to capture the full journey from developing skills to excelling in the position. Most new hires start between the minimum and midpoint, which aligns with being fully capable in the role. Salaries above the midpoint are typically reserved for team members who have demonstrated strong, consistent performance, deep expertise, and a significant positive impact within the role.

For high-demand or hard-to-fill positions like this one, we may hire above midpoint for candidates who bring…