**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 are all here.\n\n**Job Description**\n\nAt Shopify, Senior Staff Engineers use their expertise and passion to multiply the overall output of their development team. As a Senior Staff Engineer, 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. You’ll also be hands-on in our code and will contribute technically. Here are just some of the stories from the teams who build and scale Shopify.\n\n**Intrigued? We’re recruiting Senior Staff 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 Staff 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**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* 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\nPlease mention the words **REAL EPISODE INTACT** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMjU=). 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

\nSr. Web Developer (Ecomm)\n\nReports To:     Sr. Manager, Web Services    \n\nPosition Summary:\n\n Highlights for Children is a family media brand that has been nurturing children with excellent, wholesome, and innovative products for more than 70 years. Highlights publications reach over two million children every month throughout the world. Our wide variety of “Fun with a Purpose” magazines, books, and products are dedicated to helping children become their best selves—creative, curious, caring, and confident. \n\nThe Sr. Web Developer builds and maintains websites focused on using PHP technologies such as Magento, Drupal, and Laravel as well as JavaScript and other web-based programming languages and frameworks. Ideal candidates will have experience and proficiency with building user interfaces, stay up-to-date with new technologies and design approaches, present ideas and recommend solutions, possess strong communication skills, and have the ability to lead and collaborate as part of a larger team. \n\nEssential Duties and Responsibilities:\n\n\n* Develop and maintain professional web sites used for eCommerce, marketing, information, and entertainment \n\n* Provide Magento solutions that allow the business flexibility and speed in handling eCommerce initiatives. \n\n* Produce engaging UX experiences using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, Node.js, and Angular \n\n* Provide Drupal CMS solutions that allow business stakeholders flexibility and speed in handling site content \n\n* Develop new and existing Magento extensions \n\n* Develop extended functionality with MySQL and PHP \n\n* Interact with internal stakeholders and vendors to ensure consistent high quality and performance of the websites \n\n* Review code for quality, best practices, and security \n\n* Work with the QA department and Product Owners to make sure functional requirements are met \n\n* Perform activities related to support and development within project teams \n\n* Awareness of project timelines and schedules, and the ability to break down work to meet expectations \n\n* Understanding of project scope and the ability to provide feedback and alternatives \n\n* Design solutions in addition to completing tasks \n\n* Ability to efficiently troubleshoot complex problems, including root cause analysis \n\n* Leadership of other Developers in applying eCommerce and Magento standards and best practices\n\n* Collaboration among development and project teams to ensure successful delivery of work product \n\n* Strong grasp of responsive design \n\n* Git Based workflows \n\n* Incorporation and design of eCommerce solutions \n\n\n\n\n What you should show up ready to teach anyone on your first day:\n\n\n* Magento development processes and techniques\n\n\n\n\nWithin your first month, you’ll:\n\n\n* Fully adapted to the agile work environment\n\n* Built rapport with team, extending to the business\n\n* Environment fully setup and running\n\n* Contributing to the sprint commitment \n\n\n\n\nWithin your first year, you’ll:\n\n\n* Fully integrated with the work\n\n* Drive Magento development roadmap\n\n* Mentor more junior staff on Magento and development tasks\n\n\n\n\nSupervisory Responsibilities:\n\nMentoring of more junior developers\n\nEducation and Experience:\n\nBachelor's degree in Information Systems or equivalent combination of experience and education required \n\n\n* Four years Full Stack PHP / HTML / CSS / JavaScript experience \n\n* Four years of Magento development, including Commerce Cloud (Enterprise) \n\n* Two years of Laravel, or similar development framework, experience \n\n* Two years LAMP stack development \n\n\n\n\n\n* Three years of JavaScript development experience, MVC framework experience preferred \n\n* Three years MySQL experience preferred \n\n* Drupal (or other CMS) experience including module development and advanced theming preferred – Drupal 8 experience preferred \n\n\n\n\nCandidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States - Visa sponsorship is not available. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Web Developer, Developer, Digital Nomad, JavaScript, Education, Cloud, CSS, HTML, LAMP, Drupal, Junior and Ecommerce jobs that are similar:\n\n $65,000 — $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

\nIf you’re smart, passionate about technology and enjoy solving complex technical challenges then you should apply to join our best-in-class tech team. We believe that people are our most important asset and one worth protecting. As such, we’re known for creating an enviable working culture to keep our employees smiling on a day to day basis. \n\nWe offer things such as flexible hours, remote working, fortnigtly hackathons and freedom to work on projects of individual interest to name just a few. In fact, our impressive working culture has recently earned us 1st place in the Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work for 2015. \n\n\nWe have two different positions.\n\n\n1. Senior Developers who would like to lead a team / projects - We envisage the split here being about 70% hands-on coding and 30% leading the team, liaising with product owners on prioritization work, attending iteration planning meetings with stakeholders, delegating tasks to dev team, and making sure we are following Lean / Agile processes correctly.\n\n\n2. Senior Developers who want to be 100% coders (non-lead) - This role will be 100% hands on working with our other Devs to code beautiful products for our customers! \n\n\n\nSome of our Current Projects: \n\nSeedy - Our custom built CMS. A hybrid, markdown based, sinatra driven CMS but with a TDD undercurrent. Content changes are no different to backend refactoring. Templates are written in a custom DSL that enforces our style guide while still supporting iterative changes and automatic deployment. Across the company people (including business teams) are now being tagged in pull requests and even writing code!\n\nAerie - We’re overhauling our data and analytics architecture. Using the latest approaches in event streaming, we are building a brand new data pipeline based on Kinesis and Redshift that will support the analysis of both structured and semi-structured data in near real-time. This will provide rapid and intuitive customer insight to our decision makers, while also providing exciting machine learning capabilities back to our core product offering.\n\nAAA - We are enhancing our new world platform. Our current focus is on security with a view to building out ‘infrastructure as code’ using tools such as AWS CloudFormation, AWS OpsWorks, Chef/Puppet and many others. Essentially, we believe a well architected system allows us to avoid unnecessary complexity and can enable individuals to generate great output.\n\nOur Tech Stack\n\n\n\n\n* Ruby\n\n* Rails                                                                                                                            \n\n* Scala  \n\n* MongoDB\n\n* RabbitMQ\n\n* Puppet/Boxen\n\n* AWS                                                                                                                        \n\n* Hadoop / RedShift / Looker /Tableau\n\n* Cucumber / RSpec / Jasmine                              \n\n* SASS / HAML / HTML5 / CSS3 / JavaScript / CoffeeScript / jQuery\n\n\n\n\n\nThis list changes all the time, as being on the lookout for new technology trials and opportunities is part of our code. We don’t believe in limiting ourselves, or the company. If there are other tools that could get the job done better, we’re committed to exploring them.\n\nThings we believe in:\n\n\n\n\n* TDD / BDD\n\n* Continuous Delivery\n\n* Pair Programming\n\n* Build – Measure - Learn\n\n* Active participation to open source\n\n* Our business people writing code (we've not seen this anywhere else!)                                \n\n* Cross functional teams (Dev / QA/ Data / UX / Product owners all sitting together)            \n\n* Release early and learn quickly - we release our software to production around 15 times a day on average!        \n\n* Continuous learning - we look to pay for courses and conferences and actively encourage our Devs to get out and about in the community. We have even sent some of our Devs to Miami, Portugal and Barcelona for conferences recently.                                                              \n\n* Have fun! We do ruby coding challenges during lunchtimes over pizza, we have desk beers on a friday, we have several social events throughout the year, we do fortnightly hackathons, we have afterwork clubs like: UX, Data science and Robotics club, we have flexible working hours, weekly 'show n tell' sessions, and lot's more!                                                                                                 \n\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, InfoSec, Java, Cloud, CSS, Quality Assurance, HTML, Python, Scala, Ruby, Admin, Machine Learning, Data Science, Senior, jQuery, Sys Admin, Backend, Design and Digital Nomad 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