Senior Software Engineer - Cloud and GraphQL

About The Role

We are not here to play zero-sum games. Shopify Engineering is focused on building the best product for our Merchants. You will enable entrepreneurship and create new value for the world.

We’re looking for experienced and curious software engineers to help build the future of commerce.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the entire commerce stack, delivering merchant and buyer-facing applications, creating complex financial solutions, improving open source communities, and building internal tools to improve developer experience.
• Develop, enhance, or apply technical patterns to improve your team's capacity for delivering high-quality code.
• Construct and maintain critical system components that are integral to a product's functionality.
• Create alignment with senior stakeholders on the technical direction for ambiguous problem areas.
• Contribute to work estimates, prioritization, and alignment with Product Management to ensure projects are well defined.
• Tackle ambiguous or poorly defined problems, providing technical direction and fostering alignment with the team.
• Mentor other developers one to one, and one to many, contributing to a culture of continuous learning and growth.
• Collaborate effectively with peers across disciplines like Product, UX, Ops, and Data.

Requirements

• Proficiency with multiple programming languages and frameworks, likely with deep mastery in a specific language/framework.
• Professional experience with modern web/cloud development practices, and familiarity or eagerness to learn modern tools like React/Typescript/GraphQL.
• A proven track record of constructing and maintaining critical system components that are integral to a product's functionality.
• Successfully created alignment with senior stakeholders on the technical direction for ambiguous problem areas.
• Balanced trade-offs to ship effective solutions that match up with long-term goals and the team’s engineering principles and patterns.

About You

• You care deeply about what you do and about making commerce better for everyone.
• You excel by seeking professional and personal hypergrowth.
• You keep up with an unrelenting pace (the week, not the quarter).
• You are resilient and resourceful in face of ambiguity and thrive on (rather than endure) change.
• You bring critical thought and opinion.
• You embrace differences and disagreement to get things done and move forward.

Why Shopify?

Craft has always been the heart of Shopify. We’re a company, founded by crafters, focused on a mission to make commerce better for everyone. This is why we want careers at Shopify to reflect the incredible journey of getting better at your craft and applying it to push our mission forward. Shopifolk generally follow one of two career tracks:

• The crafter track is designed for individual contributors, whose primary purpose is getting things done. Crafters hone their skills and gain experience primarily through project contributions, but they may also act as player coaches to their peers or lead small, focused teams of peer crafters executing on specific areas of the business or product.

• The manager track is designed for people leaders, the stewards of the organization. The tool of a manager is their team, and this is how a manager makes the majority of their impact. They assemble, lead, and aim the team to ensure the team’s crafters achieve Shopify’s mission goals.

Still interested? Great! To match you with your ideal role, we’ll take the time to get to know you and the skills you bring to the table. If you’re applying to a specific role, we’ll respond within 10 business days. If we don’t have an immediate opening, don’t worry! We’ll give you an update and keep you in mind for future roles. Just do us a favor and try not to submit more than one or two applications. Only submit additional applications if you really match the criteria for multiple roles.