Senior Full Stack Engineer, Payments

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. 

You would be joining the TCommerce team, responsible for building the leading Commerce platform for Creators by giving them the tools they need to turn their expertise into successful businesses.

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 of our Payments initiatives 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
• Contribute to the technical strategy, providing high level technical estimates, options, and feasibility opinions, creating proposals for new technologies, patterns and implementations. 
• 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
• Advocate for Engineering best practices by sharing knowledge, teaching others new skills, and contributing to improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes, additionally, you will bring new ideas and design patterns;
• 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 5+ 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 front-end and server-side programming languages (JavaScript/Typescript, NodeJS, React/Ruby/Rails)
• Experience working in Payments domain, In-depth understanding of payment gateways, processors such as Stripe, PayPal.
• Experience with implementing and integrating various payment methods (credit/debit cards, digital wallets, bank transfers).
• Has experience with ES6 and at least one modern JavaScript libraries/framework such as React and NodeJS
• Showcases the ability to design and implement RESTful and GraphQL services
• Has experience with asynchronous job processing, using queuing technologies such as SNS, SQS, and Sidekiq
• Has experience with relational databases, SQL and engines like PostgreSQL, MySQL
• 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

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

• 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

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 - $161,00 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.   

Last updated on Aug 20, 2024