Vinovest is seeking a passionate Lead Software Engineer to drive our efforts to democratize access to fine wine investing. You will be part of our core team and a critical member of our small, growing organization.\n\n### Who you are\nYou are curious, inventive, and work to be a little better every single day. You thrive in cross-functional roles and love working side-by-side with the best engineers and designers. You work well under pressure, and you are accountable to results. You are able to handle shifting priorities and are comfortable with ambiguity. You are a self starter with a can-do attitude and a team player. You have a strong feeling of ownership of your work.\n\n### What you will do\n* Lead the direction of the development of Vinovest’s mobile application using the best technologies available to deliver new features as needed.\n* Seek to mitigate shortcomings in the path taken to implement old and new features and help to improve\nthe direction through pull requests, proposing architectural changes, and implementing better alternatives as part of the day to day work.\n* Work with design and product to give feedback and guidance on our Figma designs to ensure all edge cases are covered and our end users will have an enjoyable experience\n* Act as a mentor to engineers on both your direct team and across the engineering organization to help raise the bar and set new standards as our team scales\n* Brainstorm features with product + design teams and guide decisions based on your knowledge of the codebase and the industry as a whole\n* Assist team in triaging bugs and solving issues in production\n* Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize efficiency\n\n### Our Commitment to Diversity\nVinovest is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity of backgrounds and perspectives to cultivate an environment of understanding to have greater impact on our business and customers. We encourage under-represented groups to apply and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or criminal history in accordance with local, state, and/or federal laws.\n\n### Requirements\n* 4+ years of software development experience shipping features to consumers using React or React Native.\n* Proficiency with Typescript\n* A deep understanding of core mobile application concepts (e.g. mobile app lifecycle, push notification handling, and deep-linking).\n* You’re familiar with current trends and best practices in mobile application architecture, including performance, security and usability.\n* Familiar with full-stack architecture of complex applications with a wide range of features\n* Outstanding follow-through. You say what you’ll do, and do what you say. You hold your team to this standard. You don’t let details slip.\n* You listen well. You build consensus by default, but can drive hard decisions when needed. You push the pace. You take blame and pass on praise. People love working with you.\n\nEven if you don’t meet 100% of the above qualifications, you should still seriously consider applying. Studies show that you can still be considered for a role if you meet over 50% of the role’s requirements. \n\nPlease mention the words **HARSH DISAGREE GATE** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMTguMTE4LjE1MS4xMw==). 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 $130,000 — $170,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nUSA Timezones

**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 (#RMTguMTE4LjE1MS4xMw==). 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