Remote - Tech Lead Software Engineer - Backend Mobile or Frontend Development

Company: Shopify
Location: Allen
Posted on: June 23, 2022

Job Description:

Job Description
At Shopify, Tech Lead Engineers (also referred to as Staff Engineers) use their expertise and passion to multiply the overall output of their development team. As a technical leader, youll help drive your teams 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, youll be hands-on in the code andcontribute technically. Here are just from the teams who build and scale Shopify.Intrigued? Were recruiting Tech Lead Software Engineersto join teams in any one of these disciplines. Based on your experience and interests, let us know which one you identify with most in your application!

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. Were talking millions of 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. Were 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. Youll 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 so openness to cross-platform mobile development is a plus!

Front End Development
Our Front End Engineers collaborate closely with software engineering teams, designers, product managers, and marketers to not only build incredible merchant-facing products and marketing campaigns, but also engineer-facing tools. Youll use the latest web standards in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and modern technologies and frameworks like Typescript, React, GraphQL, Apollo and Ruby on Rails, to develop large front-end web applications and websites that scale and perform well on all devices. Youll work across disciplines and are excited about building human-centered experiences. Front End Development exists across all of Shopify, from Product to Marketing, working closely with the teams that create performant experiences and communicate Shopifys impact on commerce to a global audience. You may also collaborate with our Data and SEO teams, helping us make data informed decisions and driving additional new merchant acquisition. You might focus on creating thoughtful interfaces for our users, shaping our design language, and contributing to our shared component libraries in a maintainable and scalable way.
Qualifications
What youll do as a Tech Lead Software Engineerat 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 experiences for our merchantsExperience and skills that are important for success in this role:
  • A proven track record of success in leading software development teams strong technical mentorship is a must
  • Deep 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, PHP, Python, React or React Native, Golang, Kubernetes - or deep experience with any object-oriented language and relevant transferrable technologies
  • Experience with relational databases and SQL
  • A passion for efficiency and collaboration, with a history of establishing great relationships across UX, Product Management, Product Marketing, Data, and SEO teams distributed across multiple 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
    Additional Information
    As there are multiple positions, this posting will remain live until all positions have been filled. Successful candidates can expect to hear back from us within 2 weeks of application.We know that looking for a new role can be both exciting and time-consuming, and we truly appreciate your effort.And remember, we want to know what youre really interested in building and why you want to build it at Shopify, so please give us as much detail on this as youd like in the answers on the next page.PandoLogic. Keywords: Senior Software Engineer, Location: Allen, TX - 75013 , PL: 538530218Required
    Preferred

    Job Industries

    • Customer Service

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