Senior Front End Engineer, Thinkific
CA$120-160k
+ Employee Share Purchase Plan + Team-wide bonuses
Online course creation platform
Be an early applicant
Online course creation platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
CA$120-160k
+ Employee Share Purchase Plan + Team-wide bonuses
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make it simple for entrepreneurs and established businesses – our Creator Educators - to scale and generate revenue by teaching what they know.
Role
Who you are
- Has 5+ years of experience in a front-end development role, including 1+ year in a Senior role
- Possesses deep knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern frameworks like React, Vue, or Angular
- Has hands-on experience scaling or maintaining a Design System
- Is passionate about building inclusive, accessible user experiences, and has a strong understanding of accessibility principles and WCAG compliance
- Has experience implementing pixel-perfect designs with stylistic consistency across products
- Is familiar with front-end testing frameworks and test-driven development
- Demonstrates excellent communication skills and a highly collaborative, feedback-driven mindset
- Enjoys participating in the UX and Design process, and thinking critically to create and maintain components for the design system
- Has a strong sense of ownership and attention to detail—you're someone who thrives in autonomous environments
- 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
Desirable
- Experience working with React Server Side rendering frameworks (e.g: Next.js or Remix)
- Experience working with Typescript
- Experience working with CSS-in-JS technologies (Vanilla-extract, Styled-components, Emotion)
- Experience working with front-end monorepo
- Is comfortable consuming GraphQL APIs
- Is comfortable working with Design Tokens and Figma
- Has contributed to open-source projects or talked at conferences and/or meetups
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Front End Engineer to join us at Thinkific
- As a Senior Front End Engineer, you’ll work closely with Designers and Engineers to create responsive, accessible, and user-friendly web interfaces across Thinkific’s platform
- You’ll play a key role in building and maintaining our Design System, ensuring consistency and high standards in everything we ship
- Reporting to our Director, Engineering, you’ll support product teams with best practices, documentation, and guidance to ensure our components are easy to use, scale, and maintain
- Your goal will be to help scale Thinkific’s Design System while improving the accessibility, usability, and performance of our front-end interfaces
- Develop and maintain reusable, accessible components for our Design System
- Write clear documentation and implementation guidelines for developers and designers
- Support product teams in leveraging the Design System effectively across Thinkific’s platform
- Test and validate components with assistive technology users
- Participate in and lead code reviews to uphold best practices and code quality
- Assist in migrating existing UI to React, aligning with design patterns and accessibility requirements
- Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure UX and accessibility goals are met across our product
Our take
As the world becomes increasingly globalized, the competition for jobs is fiercer than ever. Whilst traditional educational institutions are failing to deliver the skills of tomorrow, Thinkific provides a way for the new wave of instructors to meet this educational demand, with its all-in-one course creation platform.
Course creators on Thinkific have unparalleled ownership over their content and course, whilst also having access to a suite of tools to help operate, promote, and monetize those courses. Its customization tools also mean creators can create a strong brand for their knowledge business, with a range of integrations ensuring Thinkific remains a one-stop shop for all their needs.
Its latest updates enhance its capabilities for building engaging customer education programs. New features like advanced customization and CORM integration offer users powerful tools for creating interactive and personalized learning experiences. With continuous innovations, Thinkific remains dedicated to supporting course creators and enterprises, providing them with the flexibility and resources needed to excel in the competitive educational market.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-20% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2020
$22m
EARLY VC
Nov 2019
$2.4m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $24.4m
Company benefits
- Open vacation policy: We're big proponents of sand, sun, and taking time to recharge. As long as you're getting your work done and keeping your team supported, take vacation when you need it. We encourage Thinkers to take at least 4 weeks vacation each year
- Flexible work environments: Whether you’re working from Thinkific HQ or working from home, set your own hours to find a rhythm that works for you and your team. Finding the time for workouts, laundry, daycare dropoffs, or appointments is easier than ever.
- Learning opportunities and personal development: Interested in a course, conference, or career coaching? We’ve got you covered with our $1500 Learn and Grow fund to support your personal and professional growth, on top of regular lunch & learns, internal courses and workshops, and a coaching program. Our people leaders will work with you to ensure you’re taking advantage of the learning opportunities you want and need
- Competitive benefits package: Our benefits kick in on your first day at Thinkific and include coverage for health, vision, dental, prescriptions, and up to $3000 for your mental health. Our Employee and Family Assistance Program will also take care of you and your family, providing everything to support your well-being
- Parental leave: We care about helping you grow your career AND your family. Family is important to us, and our paid parental leave gives you a little extra help while you're beginning this new adventure. Learn more about our family leave benefits here
- We actually hang out: Thinkers are some of the kindest (and most fun!) people out there. We're into boat parties, hackathons, company retreats, and celebrating everything from Canada Day to Brazilian Carnival. Wherever you’re based, you’ll have opportunities to connect with your team both virtually and IRL
- The bow-wow benefits: Office dogs. Plural. Meet them on Instagram at @dogsofthinkific
Company HQ
Strathcona, Vancouver, BC
Leadership
Greg Smith
(CEO)Spent 3 years working as a Lawyer before co-founding Moving Media Group, working as the Director of Sales. They now hold the position of CEO at Alpha Score Seminars, as well as being Co-Founder and CEO at Thinkific.
Miranda Lievers
(Advisor)Spent 7 years at Telus in progressive leadership roles launching high-speed internet across Canada. Co-founded Blue Olive Photography Inc. before co-founding Thinkific.
Matt Smith
(CSO)Over a decade of experience in Product, Technology and Growth roles. Founded Alpha Score Seminars before working as CTO of Healthism. Previously worked as CTO of Thinkific before launching successful Instagram-scheduling software startup, Later.com. Returned to Thinkific in 2021 as CSO.
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