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ID #16728260
State District of Columbia
City Washington
Job type Full-time
Salary USD TBD TBD
Source Shopify
Showed 2021-07-13
Date 2021-07-13
Deadline 2021-09-11
Category Et cetera
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Senior Lead/Staff Backend Software Engineer, Shop (Remote, Americas)

District of Columbia, Washington, 20001 Washington USA

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Job Description

At Shop, 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 with impact across multiple teams. You will work with your team to design and build technically innovative solutions that empower all teams at Shop to build great products for buyers and sellers. You will build highly scalable, performant, and reliable products that 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.

What does Back End Development mean at Shop?

On the Back End development side, we’re looking for engineers with a passion for solving tough problems with performant code to power Shop and Shopify APIs and data processing pipelines. Our teams deploy new code many times a day across Shop and Shopify backend systems, we are mindful of the impact our code has on performance, and our production scale is large. With billions of requests a day, we’re serving many millions of buyers and over 1 million sellers who will see your work within seconds – an important and incredibly rewarding responsibility. While Shop has its own services we have plenty of interactions and integrations with the Shopify core codebases. There is no red tape and we leverage this fact whenever it supports our goal of building high-quality products faster. Shopify is the largest Ruby on Rails application in the world and we're a big part of the Rails community.

Qualifications

What you’ll do as a Senior Lead Backend Software Engineer at Shop:

  • 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 Shop and Shopify leaders, executives, and external partners to provide the best commerce experience for buyers and sellers.

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

  • A proven track record of strong technical mentorship and influencing the technical direction for sizeable technical organizations
  • 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
  • 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; Shop and Shopify change 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 want to build and why you want to build it at Shop, so please give us as much detail on this as you'd like in the answers on the next page. ? ?

Shopify and Shop 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

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, 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.

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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