Data Engineer

Thinkific

1d•Remote

About The Position

Thinkific is a learning commerce platform that helps learning businesses turn knowledge into impact. By bringing together community, courses, and content with commerce, we power transformative learning experiences that help businesses grow their revenue—and reach millions of learners around the world. We’re a team of 300+ Thinkers building products that matter. Every role at Thinkific contributes to raising the bar for online learning, supporting learning businesses, and creating real-world impact. You’ll work alongside curious, collaborative teammates who care deeply about what they build and who they build it for. We’re committed to a fair, inclusive, and human hiring experience. Our team is here to guide you every step of the way, so you always know what to expect! Are you a data engineer who loves writing code, or a full-stack developer with a knack for data? Either way, we'd love to talk. We're looking for an Intermediate Data Engineer to join us at Thinkific As an Intermediate Data Engineer on our Data team, you'll be closely collaborating with engineering teams, designers, and stakeholders across the company to solve data problems that span the full stack — from pipelines and infrastructure to customer-facing data products. You'll be part of a small, dynamic team — the problems you'll work on won't always come with a neat brief, and we need someone who takes ownership and runs with it. Reporting to a Principal Data Engineer, your work will directly impact both internal decision-making and customer success. Your goal will be to help shape our data products and infrastructure to have a top-line impact on our company goals.

Requirements

Has 3–5 years of experience working across data engineering, full-stack development, analytics, or some combination — we care more about range than a specific title
Has solid data engineering experience — you've built and maintained pipelines, worked with warehouses, and understand data modeling and quality
Has full-stack development experience — you've shipped production code that users interact with, not just internal tooling
Has hands-on experience with dbt and BigQuery or similar stacks (Snowflake, Databricks, etc.)
Is self-motivated and resourceful — you ship things, communicate clearly across technical and non-technical teams, and are always looking to level up
Is comfortable working across the stack and across disciplines; you don't need to be an expert everywhere, but you're not afraid to jump in

Nice To Haves

Experience with LLM/agent development — building AI-powered data products, automated workflows, or integrating LLMs into data pipelines and analytics
Experience with GCP and Terraform
Any exposure to ML
Experience white-labeling a BI tool or embedding analytics into a customer-facing product
Experience building or maintaining event tracking systems
Familiarity with modern data stack tools beyond dbt/BigQuery (Airflow, Dagster, etc.)
Experience working in startup-style environments or autonomous teams within larger orgs
Experience working in a SaaS environment

Responsibilities

Take ownership of undefined problems — dig in, scope the work, and ship solutions, whether that's a pipeline, a dashboard, a tracking implementation, or something we haven't thought of yet
Ship customer-facing analytics dashboards and features — this is production code, not just SQL and charts
Work directly with engineering teams to implement tracking services across our products
Interface with teams across the company who need data solutions, translating fuzzy requirements into concrete deliverables
Raise the bar on technical quality across the data team — through architecture decisions, reducing tech debt, code reviews, and bringing software development best practices to a high-performing data team
Work with your team to conduct new technology research; bring fresh ideas and concepts to bear on how we integrate AI into our data workflows

Benefits

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 Most Admired Corporate Cultures by Waterstone!
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 $900/year 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.
3 Paid Volunteer Days each year to give back to your community and support the causes you care about.
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 $2,000 CAD 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.
A place where you can bring your whole self to work. We know that different perspectives lead to amazing ideas, more innovation, and, ultimately, our success as a company. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds, experiences, beliefs, identities, and statuses. Whoever you are—we can't wait to meet you!