Senior Software Engineer, Shop – Backend, Mobile, or Frontend Development

Shop and Shopify are now permanently remote and we're working towards a future that is digital by design. 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

Shopify has focused the last decade on solving complex problems for entrepreneurs by making commerce seamless and accessible. Now, we want to do the same for customers through Shop.

Shop is on a mission to change how we shop. From the fastest checkout experience in Shop Pay to all-in-one order tracking and easy ways to find and shop local brands in app, Shop is making shopping better one step at a time for both shoppers and the merchants they buy from. Having launched less than a year ago, Shop is already one of the top 5 apps in North America and we're just getting started.

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team as we turn Shop into one of the most beloved products and brands in the world. We want shoppers to be able to develop meaningful connections with the brands they love, and we believe that Shop is the answer to helping foster those relationships with the powerhouse of Shopify merchants we love and support.

What types of Senior Software Engineers might be interested in joining?

Back End Development

Back End Engineers with a passion for solving tough problems with performant code work on teams that ship on quality instead of on time. Our teams deploy new code many times a day, and our production scale is massive. We’re talking over 1 million online stores, and hundreds of millions of requests a day. Thousands of entrepreneurs will see your work within seconds – a difficult but incredibly rewarding responsibility. Shopify is the largest Ruby on Rails application in the world and we're a big part of the Rails community. We’re constantly improving our codebase to make it even better.

Mobile Development (React Native, Android & iOS)

Our Mobile Engineers work along with designers and product managers to build and launch new features for our apps. You’ll work on our large-scale app that serves millions of shoppers. Our teams are working with React Native so openness to cross-platform mobile development is a must!

You’ll work across disciplines and are excited about building human-centred experiences. 

Front End Development

Our Frontend Engineers will be on the forefront of bridging the gap between web and app. You’ll use modern technologies and frameworks like Typescript, React, GraphQL and Apollo, and the latest web standards in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, and Ruby on Rails, to develop large front-end web applications that scale and perform well on all devices. And you will develop our app experience through React Native. 

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

• Collaborating with other designers and engineers
• Creating beautiful and fast code that improves our code base in meaningful ways
• Using test-driven development to write well-tested code
• Fixing bugs fast and taking your time to solve hard problems well
• Contributing back to the open source community
   

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

• Experience using technologies and frameworks like (but not limited to) some of our most-used languages and frameworks — Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, Java/JEE, Node.js, PHP, Python, React or React Native, Javascript, AngularJS, CSS3 — is an asset, but not required. Don’t have experience with many of them? No problem — deep experience with any object-oriented language and willingness to learn our tech stack goes a long way

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

• Experience with working in a cross-discipline environment with designers and other engineers to produce and vet ideas through prototyping early concepts

• Bonus Points: You’ve mentored teammates on new ways to deepen their technical craft

Shop and Shopify are 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

We know that looking for a new role can be both exciting and time-consuming, and we truly appreciate your effort. Jenn 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. 👍 📖

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 Shop and 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