**Software Development Manager – Backend, Mobile, or Front End Development (Remote, Americas)**\n\n**Company Description**\n\nShopify is now permanently remote and working towards a future that is digital by default. [Learn more](https://www.shopify.com/careers/work-anywhere) about what this can mean for you.\n\nShopify is the leading cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform. Merchants can use the software to design, set up, and manage their stores across multiple sales channels, including web, mobile, social media, marketplaces, and brick-and-mortar locations. The platform also provides merchants with a powerful back-office and a single view of their business. Shopify was engineered for reliability and scale, making enterprise-level technology available to businesses of all sizes. Shopify powers over 1,000,000 businesses in over 175 countries — and here’s how we’ve been helping more merchants survive, thrive, and navigate the impacts of COVID-19.\n\nShopify is on a fast-moving mission to make the best products for merchants, buyers, and partners around the globe. Here are just some of the stories from the engineering teams who build and scale Shopify.\n \nIntrigued? That’s great! We’re recruiting Software Development Managers to lead 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**Job Description**\n\n**Back End Development**\n\nAt Shopify, Back End Developers 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 Developers 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 developers use Kotlin and our iOS developers 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 Developers (encompassing web and UX) work closely with software engineering teams, designers and product managers to not only build incredible merchant-facing products, but also developer-facing tools. 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.You’ll work across disciplines and are excited about building human-centered experiences. You’ll work closely with the teams that create compelling content, build awareness of Shopify, and communicate stories about Shopify's role in commerce to a global audience. Or, you might focus on creating thoughtful product interfaces for our users, shape our design language, and contribute to our shared component libraries in a maintainable and scalable way.\n\n**You’ll be working on things like:**\n\n* Managing teams and helping them prioritize, build and ship the most impactful features to our merchants and community of developers.\n* As a member of the product area leadership, build a composite roadmap that reflects the priorities in the different areas and continuously rebalance the teams to react to changes in the surrounding conditions.\n* Work on problems with your teams, roll up your sleeves, form an opinion and advocate for engineering-specific roadmap items.\n* Work with product, UX and other disciplines to discover the best solutions for our merchants.\n* Grow a team, both through internal development and external hiring.\n\n**Qualifications\nQualities you likely have to be well suited to this role:**\n\n* Proven team leadership skills. Your management skills and technical depth allows you to develop and mentor others as well as build credibility with your team while executing broader engineering strategies.\n* Proven software development background in one of the disciplines listed above: Backend, Mobile, UX, or Web Development. You feel comfortable diving into the code and interacting with developers at all levels of seniority.\n* Familiarity with distributed and highly available systems at scale.\n* Experience designing and developing APIs.\n* You are comfortable working with senior stakeholders (Director level and up), both technical and non technical.\n* You have successfully built and grown teams of engineers during your career.\n* A commitment and drive for quality, technical excellence and results.\n\n**Additional information**\n\n**Here's how to apply:**\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.\n\n \n\nPlease mention the words **CHECK CLAY TRUTH** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMjI=). 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

\nFavly is a mobile application that connects people with trusted businesses through the power of personal referrals.\n\n\nWe believe in strengthening communities by promoting good, local business. Favly was born out of the conviction that our favorite, most trusted way of doing business is by sharing personal referrals.\n\n\n\nVice President of Technology\n\nReporting to the VP/General Manager, your role is to ensure the successful execution of the company’s business mission through the development and deployment of Favly’s mobile app and web presence. You are instrumental in helping to scale a very dynamic and growing organization. You have deep technology knowledge, specifically as it relates to mobile development, and are able to evaluate and identify appropriate technology platforms for the delivery of our product. You will build and manage a top caliber development and quality assurance team, and oversee development, QA and project management. You are able to work in a fast paced environment overseeing development and deployment, while keeping releases on time. Serving on the Executive Team, you co-own company strategy and leadership, and have analytical mind and solve problems quickly.\n\n\nEssential Duties & Responsibilities\n\n\n* Create and articulate the company’s product vision and product road map\n\n* Recruit, develop and retain top engineering talent\n\n* Lead the engineering process, determining when to use native, when to use web, or when to use a combination\n\n* Lead the delivery of high-quality, on-time mobile product improvements and features ensuring high customer satisfaction\n\n* Lead execution of technology partnerships, relationships, etc.\n\n* Identify competitive services and opportunities for innovation\n\n* Identify technology trends and evolving social behavior that influence the business\n\n* Anticipate and address major technology changes\n\n* Work with product team to identify requirements and features feasibility\n\n* Develop proprietary tools based on business needs\n\n* Identify and prioritize development initiatives\n\n* Set and meet aggressive timetables\n\n* Direct development and execution of enterprise-wide information security plan\n\n* Direct and execute an enterprise-wide disaster recovery and business continuity plan\n\n* Build and manage internal and external teams\n\n* Oversee infrastructure development and deployment; build an infrastructure that can scale to millions of registered and active users\n\n* Develop and own technology budget\n\n* Define organization’s software development methodology\n\n* Establish a specification conformance and testing regimen\n\n* Establish and supervise QA process, including integration and system testing\n\n* Select, deploy and monitor performance profiling tools and procedures\n\n* Evaluate and select web application hosting providers\n\n* Establish an application deployment process\n\n* Monitor app performance and review any app failures in staging or production\n\n* Analyze server workload, including traffic and utilization trends\n\n* Establish and monitor an analytics regime that measures performance to goals\n\n* Review and approve proposed development releases\n\n* Evaluate search engine optimization\n\n* Ensure the ongoing maintenance and updating of information systems and infrastructure, including hardware, software, and ASP applications\n\n\n\n\n\nDesired Skills & Experience\n\n\n* Experience developing cross-platform mobile applications\n\n* Expertise in agile development\n\n* Expertise in HTML5/CSS/JavaScript\n\n* Experience with JavaScript frameworks and libraries like Angular, Ember, React, Node\n\n* Expertise in iOS or Android native development, or wrappers like PhoneGap\n\n* Experience with automated testing and test driven development\n\n* Experience with social login from Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, etc.\n\n* Strong Objective-C skills and inside-and-out knowledge of the iOS SDK\n\n* Strong Java skills with extensive knowledge of the Android SDK\n\n* Experience using and creating scalable web-based RESTful APIs\n\n* Object Oriented PHP skills at all scales\n\n* Experience in integrating 3rd party interfaces\n\n* Experience in a startup environment\n\n* Ability to manage engineering teams (QA, Dev, Ops)\n\n* Ability to keep remote teams on track\n\n* Proficiency with web programming languages (PHP, C#, Java, Ruby, Python)\n\n* Proficiency with front-end web technologies (XML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax)\n\n* Proficiency with several RDBMSs (MySQL, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL)\n\n* Experience with revision control systems (Git, Mercurial, SVN, Perforce, etc)\n\n* Experience working with different CMSs (BrowswerCMS, Drupal, Joomla, DotNetNuke)\n\n* Experience managing agile development processes through tools such as Atlassian suite\n\n* Familiarity with information security vulnerabilities\n\n* Excellent verbal and written communication\n\n* Keen analytic and problem-solving abilities\n\n\n\n\n\nPersonal Qualities & Core Competencies\n\n\n* Possess personal integrity: a deep moral compass that guides personal action\n\n* Use values and principles to make decisions\n\n* Strive to “do the right thing”\n\n* Yearn to work at a company where the organization’s values reflect personal ones\n\n* Are a team player: understand that success is only achievable as a team\n\n* Treat others fairly and with respect\n\n* Listen well and communicate well\n\n* Are fiercely consumer focused: have a real love and understanding of consumer behavior, and have personal experience using a variety of research and A-B testing techniques\n\n* Seek to understand what consumers want/need from both functional and emotional perspectives\n\n* Embrace the user community, becoming a “hands on,” active user of the service\n\n* Envision long-term market potential and business opportunity and position the business to capitalize on them\n\n* Anticipate future business opportunities or problems and develops strategies to address them\n\n* Drive results: set dramatic, compelling goals and aggressive schedules for improvement\n\n* Have a demonstrated record of delivering both short- and long-term results\n\n* Translate the vision/mission of the organization into actionable, quantitative plans\n\n* Convey a sense of urgency, and drive issues to closure\n\n* Seeks to build a great company for the long haul, not merely optimize for short-term gains\n\n* Embrace goals with enthusiasm: relentlessly optimistic while being grounded in reality\n\n* Manage performance: translates over-arching business goals into specific objectives for each member of the team\n\n* Hold people accountable for agreed-to results.\n\n* Identify and keep others focused on the most important metrics that drive the business.\n\n\n\n\n\nEducation\n\nUniversity degree in the field of computer science or engineering. An advanced degree is a plus.\n\n\nLocation\n\nWe are located in the beautiful community of Ojai, CA.\n\nIt’s a great place LIVE * WORK * PLAY (www.discoverojai.com/about_ojai.html)\n\nHowever, working remotely is an option.\n\n\nCompensation\n\nComfortable base plus equity.\n\n\n\nTo Apply\n\nAre you interested in applying? Contact us at [email protected]. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, InfoSec, C, C Plus Plus, CSS, Quality Assurance, PHP, HTML, Python, Scala, Angular, Node, Drupal, Ruby, SEO, API, Admin, Mobile, Android, Engineer, Sys Admin, Executive and Java jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $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

CTO at The Daily Brands\n\nYou'll work with directly with the CEO on his second venture, The Daily Brands; his previous venture Lucid Appeal was successfully acquired in 2013. You will rapidly develop the existing Daily Brands iOS app (Daily Vice) and The Daily Brands platform which has already been built into a minimum viable product. You should be extremely confident in your abilities, have a track record of success and an unbridled enthusiasm to wear multiple hats. Competition for this opportunity is high. We are looking for only the best of the best.\n\nRequirements:\n• Located in San Francisco area\n• Ability to work effectively within a lean and agile development environment\n• Experience rapidly prototyping for iOS\n• Have developed at least one commercially-deployed iOS app\n• EXPERT ability writing Objective-C and utilizing iOS Frameworks\n• Expertise developing in Java, C++, or other object-oriented programming languages and scripting languages (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Python, Ruby)\n• B.S. or M.S. Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience\n\nThings we also like:\n• Experience rapidly prototyping for Android\n• Expertise building complex Android apps using Java / other frameworks\n• Experience with Parse\n• Ability to build and manage a team of developers\n• You enjoy going out, or at the very least won't mind going out socially\n\nCompensation:\n• Key-Executive equity stake\n• Cash compensation to cover your living expenses (100k+ base)\n\nContact:\[email protected]\nCEO, The Daily Brands \n\n#Salary and compensation\n $100,000 — $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
\n\n#Location\nSan Francisco

You will build and lead the development of new functionalities  to ensure the vision of the company.\n\nWe are looking for hands-on experience with technology leadership in an entrepreneurial company or startup.  \n\nExperience building large web applications from scratch.  \n\nLanguage agnostic - we believe in using the best tools for the job  .\n\nNot scared to get your hands dirty with HTML and CSS - you enjoy working on both the backend and front-end of a project.\n\n\n\n\nYou will get to work with a team of creative and driven people who are passionate and skilled in testing ideas and building businesses.   \n\n#Salary and compensation\n $30,000 — $35,000/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
\n\n#Location\nBarcelona