Backend Software Engineering Lead

7 days ago

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Thinkific Full time

About the Role:

Thinkific is a leading online learning platform that empowers creators to build and sell online courses, communities, and memberships. We're seeking a highly skilled Senior Backend Software Engineer to join our TCommerce team, responsible for all payments initiatives at Thinkific.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Drive and deliver major engineering initiatives with long-term impact on our Payments products and architecture.
  • Contribute to the 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 improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
  • Lead team discussions, mentor other engineers to grow and improve the team's productivity.
  • Role model with clean, efficient, and maintainable code in accordance with best practices and coding standards.
  • Create complex architectural frameworks for components and features of new software programs.
  • Think critically to overcome challenges that arise during the development and implementation of a project.
  • Communicate with senior leaders and executives to determine the organization's unique software needs, presenting progress reports to senior leaders.
  • Participate in our on-call rotations for troubleshooting production issues.

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of experience working in a senior engineering role, and is an expert in backend architectural approaches such as event-driven architecture, domain-driven design, and multi-tenant systems.
  • 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).
  • Familiarity with industry standards and compliance requirements such as PCI-DSS, PSD2.
  • Knowledge of fraud detection and prevention mechanisms in payment systems.
  • Understanding of tax handling, reconciliation, settlements, and chargebacks processes.
  • Understands and is proficient in multiple backend languages, such as Ruby, Golang, or Node and also has expert-level knowledge of relational and non-relational database technologies such as Postgres, Redis, ElasticSearch, DynamoDB.
  • Is experienced with asynchronous job processing, using queuing technologies such as SNS, SQS, and Sidekiq.
  • 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.

Nice to Have:

  • 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.

About Thinkific:

Thinkific is a software platform that empowers creators to build and sell online courses, communities, and memberships. We believe in impactful and innovative work, and our team of talented Thinkers is building and expanding an incredible product that empowers Creator Educators and businesses around the globe.

What We Offer:

  • An amazing team of talented, passionate, and kind Thinkers.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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