Full Stack Engineer

Position: Staff Full Stack Engineer
Thinkific is a software platform that enables entrepreneurs to create, market, sell, and deliver  their own online courses. Our mission is no less than to revolutionize the way people learn and earn online by giving them the tools they need to turn their expertise into a sustainable business that impacts both them and their audience. O ur team of 275+ Thinkers supports customers around the globe while working collaboratively to learn, grow, and succeed together.

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We’re looking for a  Staff Full Stack Engineer  to join us  a Staff Engineer at Thinkific, you are one of our “power implementers”. You’ll work closely with other Staff Engineers, Principal Engineers and our Lead Architect to shape the technical direction of your domain, while also investing time to coach and mentor other engineers on the team.
We’re reimagining learning as a shared, collaborative journey, not just a solo experience. The Communities team is building tools that empower creators to foster meaningful connection, engagement, and ongoing growth within their learning spaces.
You’ll be joining at a pivotal moment, helping bring this vision to life as we shape the future of how people learn and grow together.
Your goal will be to help guide and execute on projects related to your technical domain. Here’s how you’ll accomplish this:
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.
The person we have in mind likely:
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, Elastic Search, DynamoDB
Frontend:
React, Next.js, Node, Type Script, Graph

QL, 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,…