Senior Lead/Staff Mobile Software Engineer

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Shopify

Washington, DC
Full Time
3y ago

Company Description

Shopify’s mission is to make commerce better for everyone. From building a new product feature for our commerce platform, to helping a merchant troubleshoot an issue over the phone, we want to empower our ecosystem through our work.

Having a unified vision, a north star, is vitally important to ensure that we are all headed in the same direction. No matter the size or experience, we want to power every merchant’s experience. This is why we're all here.

Shopify is now permanently remote and we're working towards a future that is digital by default. That location you see above? Consider it merely an example of hundreds of potential locations across North America where Shopify is hiring. Learn more here: https://www.shopify.com/careers/work-anywhere

Job Description

At Shopify, Senior Lead Engineers (also referred to as Senior Staff Engineers) use their expertise and passion to multiply the overall output of their development team. As a senior technical leader, you’ll help drive the product vision to its implementation. You and the team will design and build technically innovative solutions that empower all teams at Shopify to build powerful and resilient distributed cloud software. Merchants that depend on Shopify for a highly scalable, performant, and reliable platform benefit directly from the work you do. You will maintain a high bar for quality and lead and mentor other engineers. And of course, you’ll be hands-on in the code and contribute technically. Here are just some of the stories from the teams who build and scale Shopify.

What does Mobile Development mean at Shopify?
Our Mobile Engineers work along with designers and product managers to build and launch new features for our apps. You’ll work on large-scale apps that are ever-changing, enabling entrepreneurship for hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs. Our Android engineers use Kotlin and our iOS engineers use Swift. Our teams are increasingly working with React Native so openness to cross-platform mobile development is a plus! 

Qualifications

What you’ll do as a Senior Lead Mobile Software Engineer at Shopify:

  • Learn and grow constantly to feed your passion for self-improvement and make those around you better

  • Design and build highly available, resilient and scalable platform primitives & API

  • Work through problems with your team, roll up your sleeves, form an opinion and advocate for engineering-specific roadmap items

  • Collaborate with other Shopify leaders, executives and external partners to provide the best commerce experience for our merchants
     

Experience and skills that are important for success in this role:

  • A proven track record of strong technical mentorship

  • Experience building large scale, high throughput distributed systems and scaling web services, particularly those using and analyzing large amounts of data

  • High level of fluency with and experience using technologies and frameworks like (but not limited to) some of our most-used languages - Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, Java/JEE, Node.js, React or React Native, Kotlin, Swift - or deep experience with any object-oriented language and relevant transferrable technologies

  • A passion for efficiency and collaboration, with a history of establishing great relationships with UX and Product Management teams across time zones

  • A commitment and drive for quality, technical excellence and results

  • Curiosity and passion to constantly learn new things; Shopify changes fast, and we need the people who work here to be able to change and learn fast too

  • Proficiency in systems thinking and systems design concepts like transactions, atomicity, idempotency, etc.

  • Raise the quality and speed (team efficiency) bar and move the platform into a position of maximum leverage

  • Use the right tool for the job, fix problems are the right level of abstraction and optimize to meet both functional and non-functional goals

Additional Information

We know that looking for a new role can be both exciting and time-consuming, and we truly appreciate your effort. Jane is an actual real live person (👋🏻) and is looking forward to learning more about you through your application. And remember, we want to know what you're really interested in building and why you want to build it at Shopify, so please give us as much detail on this as you'd like in the answers on the next page. 👍 📖

Shopify is now permanently remote, and working towards a future that is digital by default. Learn more about what this can mean for you: https://www.shopify.com/careers/work-anywhere

Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity & inclusion enables us to truly make commerce better for everyone. We encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities, and/or people with intersectional identities. Please take a look at our Sustainability Reports to learn more about Shopify’s commitments to our communities, and our planet: https://www.shopify.com/about/environment#SustainabilityReports

At Shopify, we understand that experience comes in many forms. We’re dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team - so if your experience is this close to what we’re looking for, please consider applying.

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Interested, but not ready to apply? 

Join the Shopify Talent Community to learn more about us, while you polish up your resume: https://www.shopify.com/careers/2021

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