We’re looking for a Staff Full Stack Engineer to join us at Thinkific. As 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 would 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, 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.

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

• 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

The recruitment compensation range for this position is $144,000.00 - $204,000.00. 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.