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**Company Description**\n\nShopify’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.\n\nHaving 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.\n\nShopify 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\n\n**Job Description**\n\nAt 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.\n\nIntrigued? We’re recruiting Senior Lead Software Engineers to 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!

\n\n**Back End Development**\n\nBack 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.\n\n**Mobile Development (React Native, Android & iOS)**\n\nOur 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! \n\n**Front End Development**\n\nOur 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. You’ll 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. You’ll 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 Shopify’s 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.\n\n**Qualifications\nWhat you’ll do as a Senior Lead Engineer at Shopify:**\n\n* Learn and grow constantly to feed your passion for self-improvement and make those around you better\n* Design and build highly available, resilient and scalable platform primitives & API\n* Work through problems with your team, roll up your sleeves, form an opinion and advocate for engineering-specific roadmap items\n* Collaborate with other Shopify leaders, executives and external partners to provide the best commerce experience for our merchants\n \n\n**Experience and skills that are important for success in this role:**\n\n* A proven track record of strong technical mentorship\n* Experience building large scale, high throughput distributed systems and scaling web services, particularly those using and analyzing large amounts of data\n* 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\n* A passion for efficiency and collaboration, with a history of establishing great relationships with UX and Product Management teams across time zones\n* A commitment and drive for quality, technical excellence and results\n* 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\n* Proficiency in systems thinking and systems design concepts like transactions, atomicity, idempotency, etc.\n* Raise the quality and speed (team efficiency) bar and move the platform into a position of maximum leverage\n* 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\n\n**Additional information**\n\nWe 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. 👍 📖\n\nAt Shopify, we are committed to building and fostering an environment where our employees feel included, valued, and heard. Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion enables us to truly make commerce better for everyone. We strongly 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 2019 Sustainability Report to learn more about Shopify's commitments.\n\n#LI-KO3 #LI-REMOTE #LI-AH1\n \n\nInterested, but not ready to apply? \n\nJoin the Shopify Talent Community to learn more about us, while you polish up your resume: https://www.shopify.com/careers/2021 \n\nPlease mention the words **SCENE MAID NOODLE** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xOTc=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Location\nunited states, canada

\nHOMER is looking for a collaborative and results driven Senior Web Engineer to join our energetic, growing team. This is a remote role, but must be able to work East Coast hours. You will have a profound impact on a company that touches the lives of children, parents, and teachers across the globe with one of the most celebrated reading and learn-to-read platforms in the industry. We are looking to create world class digital learning experience available. Your work will help build a beautiful, personalized experience to meet every child's specific needs as they learn to read, love to read, and read to learn. Overall success in this position means you have helped the children using our products find the lessons, stories, and other content that best fit their age and interests.\n\nHOMER is a venture-backed, high-growth business that offers competitive compensation including equity and full benefits in a creative, flexible environment that invests in professional development\n\nAs Senior Engineer on our growing Web and Android team, you will be responsible for improving and maintaining several websites and web apps and contribute to the backend infrastructure that supports them as well as potentially developing games, lessons, and other interactive educational content consumed by a growing number of cross platform web and mobile apps. You are a maker at heart and have experience in and temperament for mentoring others on your team and across engineering. You will focus on elegant and effective technical solutions that enable Homer’s vision described above. As you grow, you will participate in growing our technology platform to support the needs of rapidly growing user-base. Above all, you should care about delivering quality software in a sustainable and timely manner.\n\n\nYour responsibilities will include:\n\n\n* Make direct technical contributions (writing, debugging, reviewing and deploying code) using Javascript, React framework, Node and other languages as necessary.\n\n* Provide technical guidance and feedback to your team members on a team distributed in several time-zones using agile project management methodologies.\n\n* Collaborate effectively with your stakeholders (product owners, animators, illustrators, UX designers, engineers, data scientists and others) to define and refine requirements.\n\n* Lead technical design of applications and participate in larger system design efforts.\n\n\n\n\nYou must have:\n\n\n* Demonstrable expertise designing and building websites and web apps and other systems using Javascript, React and Node.\n\n* Sound Computer Science fundamentals (Bachelor’s degree in CS or related fields preferred).\n\n* Strong interpersonal and communication skills.\n\n* At least 5 years of relevant work experience (or Undergraduate degree in Computer Science and 3 years of relevant work experience).\n\n\n\n\nWe are also looking for:\n\n\n* Knowledge of full stack engineering especially how scalable frontend and backend systems interoperate.\n\n* Knowledge of deployment technologies in cloud hosted environments like AWS.\n\n* Knowledge and experience with GraphQL.\n\n* Experience developing web or mobile 2D games, interactive apps, or animation systems.\n\n* Ability and openness to switch programming languages as necessary.\n\n\n\n\nWe like people who are:\n\n\n* Results oriented, hands-on and passionate about our industry (education) and our consumers (children, parents and educators).\n\n* Collaborative, and thrive in startup environments.\n\n\n\n\nWhat you’ll get:\n\n\n* HOMER offers competitive compensation including equity and full benefits\n\n* Smart, passionate, and engaged co-workers\n\n* Excellent top-tier Medical/Dental/Vision benefits\n\n* A chance to have a big impact\n\n* A chance to bring a love of reading and learning to children globally\n\n\n\n\nHOMER is an equal opportunity employer and enthusiastically encourages people from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences to apply. HOMER does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), gender, national origin, citizenship, age, mental or physical disability, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation or any other basis prohibited by law. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Senior, Engineer, Web Developer, React, Cloud, Node, Mobile, Android and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

Hi there!\nWe’re looking for a FullStack Developer to build the next generation learning platform for kids.\n\nInterested in helping kids to learn more and better? Read on..\n\nRegardless of how well you feel you fit our description, we encourage you to apply if you are motivated by building an EdTech Platform, mobile apps and API.\nApply now: https://explain.breezy.hr/p/8b171ccaba1f01-fullstack-developer?s=remoteok\n\n\nAbout Explain\nExplain is a fresh startup that is creating the next generation of online learning for kids and parents who wants the best possible learning experience. We do that by revolutionizing homework and learning assistance over the internet using the latest scientific research and modern technology.\n\nWe believe that every kid should receive the right amount of teaching, in and outside schools.\nWe empower kids and their families to get access to the best way to learn in this era.\nWe want to build the right tools that will impact lots of young people.\nWe believe in small teams and being able to move fast using Lean Startup Methodology.\n\nEveryone working at Explain believe in a safe, welcoming and inclusive environment.\n\nAbout you\nYou’ve got a strong background working in our stack (React, ReactNative, ES6, Node.js, etc.).\nYou have a history of shipping high-quality production code.\nYou have designed and implemented distributed systems and you know how to create the infrastructure to scale them.\nYou know how to set your direction and make things happen. You are proactive about pushing yourself to the limits of your ability. You are never happy with the status quo.\n\nYou enjoy learning and exploring new areas that you might not have experience with yet.\n\nYou are ok working with a distributed team and you have excellent communication skills.\n\nLast but not least, you are friendly and respectful. You strive to approach things in a positive and optimistic way and avoid criticizing or condemning team members or users.\n\nWe care about each one of our teammates.\n\n\n\nThings you might do\nExplain is a small, fast-growing, and remote-first company, so you’ll likely get experience on many different projects across the organization. That said, here some things you’ll probably do:\n\nPlan and build product features. That is: Code.\nDive into the code; fixing bugs and improving developer experience.\nParticipate in code reviews, learning and spreading technical knowledge throughout Explain\nCollaborate with the team to set the technical roadmaps that will achieve business goals through engineering best practices.\nDo support with the customers. Everyone does support.\nWrite prototypes for our testable hypotheses.\nIdentify talented candidates and help with the recruiting process of your next teammates.\nGive back to the community via open source and blog posts.\nImplement system to improve developer efficiency, improve resilience to failure of our platform and build tools that will improve the life of our DevOps.\nTalking about DevOps: There will be some DevOps work here.\nShip code.\n\n\nHelpful Skills and Experience\nKnowledge of, and passion for mobile app best practices\nStrong experience with developing in most of: Javascript, NodeJS, ES6, React, React Native, Redux, GraphQL and WebPack\nSolid understanding of RESTful services.\nKnowledge of both relational databases and NOSQL DB\nThoughtfulness about product design, with good user experience instincts\nStrong verbal and written English communication skills\nBonus points\nKnowledge about the Lean Startup and Agile Methodologies\nAWS Technologies and other cloud platform like Microsoft Azure and Heroku.\nKnowledge of Firebase\nPractical experience with Machine Learning and AI, using tools like TensorFlow and OpenAI\nKnowledge with Docker and Kubernetes.\nYou are interested in Open Source and have your own projects.\nKnowledge about testability; interest in unit testing\n\n\nHow to Apply\nTo jump-start the process we ask a few questions we normally would ask at the start of the interview. This helps speed up the process and lets us get to know you a bit better right out of the gate.\n\nAfter you apply, you are going to hear back from us, even if we don’t seem like a good fit.\nApply now: https://explain.breezy.hr/p/8b171ccaba1f01-fullstack-developer?s=remoteok\n\n\nBenefits\nThe Whole Package\nLocation: Planet Earth (Mars coming soon.). This is a fully remote position!\n\nCompensation\nCompetitive salary\nGreat healthcare plan *\nRetirement plan with company match *\n2 annual company retreats to awesome places\nPaid leave for new parents\nFlexibility in time and work location.\nPick your own equipment. We'll set you up with whatever laptop + monitor combo you want plus any software you need.\nFlexible vacation policy. We require you to take at least 2 weeks off each year. We see most employees take 4-5 weeks off per year.\n* While we take care of our international folks as best we can, currently, healthcare and retirement plans are only available to Norway-based employees.\n\nExplain is an equal opportunity employer. We're excited to work with talented and empathetic people no matter their race, color, gender, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, physical disability, or age. \n\nPlease mention the words **KIND PALM RENT** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xOTc=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, React, Firebase, NoSQL, Node, Mobile, Android, Full Stack, iOS, GraphQL, Swift, Docker, Developer, Digital Nomad, DevOps, English, Cloud and Microsoft jobs that are similar:\n\n $67,500 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 🏔 Company retreats\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n