Senior Backend Software Engineer

1 month ago

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Thinkific Full time

Senior Backend Software Engineer

Thinkific is seeking an experienced Senior Backend Software Engineer to join our TCommerce team and lead the development of our Payments platform.

As a Senior Backend Software Engineer, you will work closely with our cross-functional team to design, develop, and maintain our payment systems, ensuring they are scalable, secure, and reliable.

  • 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, additionally, you will bring new ideas and design patterns to strategic and technical planning initiatives.
  • 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.
  • Creating complex architectural frameworks for components and features of new software programs.
  • Thinking 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.

Preferred Requirements:

  • 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.

Why Choose Thinkific:

At Thinkific, we believe everyone should have a fair, inclusive, and overall great experience when exploring a new role with us. That's why we're committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging across every facet of our business. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds, experiences, beliefs, identities, and statuses.

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.

What We Offer:

  • An amazing team of talented, passionate, and kind Thinkers. Together, we've built an amazing, award-winning culture —we're a Certified Great Place to Work and one of Canada's Top Small & Medium Employers.
  • 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. Our team is encouraged to take a minimum 4 weeks of vacation, plus Thinker Holidays (extended long weekends in the summer) and time off for the December holiday season.
  • 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. Plus, family-friendly benefits include generous parental leave top-ups for up to 32 weeks, as well as fertility coverage and personalized return to work options.
  • 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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