Principal Engineer (Full Stack) – Thinkific / Thinktific

Are you an experienced Technical Lead or Architect who is all about solving complex problems, challenging the status quo, and mentoring other engineers? We’re looking for a Principal Engineer (Full Stack) to join us at Thinkific!

As a Principal Engineer (Full Stack) working with our Multiple Learning Products team at Thinkific, you’ll act as a force multiplier, making our Engineering team better by advocating for best practices and helping fellow Engineers find ways to level up their skills. Reporting into the Senior Manager, Engineering for our Learn division, you’ll speak to the technical aspects of the product, connect planned work for multiple learning products to business strategy, and most importantly, influence others around you towards these goals.

Your goal will be to help drive the technical strategy for creating multiple learning products at Thinkific. Here’s how you’ll accomplish this:

• Be the technical leader for Multiple Learning Products by researching and creating prototypes, providing high-level technical estimates, sharing technical options, and advising on feasibility options while considering the product as a whole
• Create a shared understanding and buy-in for initiatives for new ideas by creating and maintaining relationships with stakeholders across the Product and Engineering organizations
• Perform as an individual contributor on major technical roadmap items while mentoring and delegating to others when appropriate for projects, starting with determining how our platform handles multiple user roles with the overall goal of moving our roadmap of creating multiple learning products forward.
• Review technical proposals for other Engineers and help other Engineers on the team level up by mentoring them and helping them solve complex problems
• Play an active role in our hiring process to help us continue to scale our Engineering team, from interviewing candidates to conducting assignment reviews

The person we have in mind likely:

• Has 3+ years of experience in a Senior Engineer, Technical Lead, or Architect role, and is an expert in at least 1 programming language, preferably Ruby or Javascript
• Displays an expert-level knowledge of software design and architecture, and has experience with writing technical specifications
• Understands the needs of customers and users and is comfortable interacting with customers on a regular basis
• 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:

• Previous experience in a SaaS environment using a shared code and infrastructure model
• Experience architecting cloud-native solutions
• Expert-level knowledge of one or more web frameworks
• Business  analysis and requirements gathering experience

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’re also committed to providing a comfortable and accessible interview process for every candidate. If there are any accommodations our team can make throughout our hiring process (big or small), please let us know.