Lead/Staff Software Engineer, Back End or Infrastructure (Remote, Europe)

• Collaborating withother developers and designers
• Actively seeking out hard problems to solve, and designingtechnical roadmaps to solve them
• Identifying and pursuing impactful projects driven by product direction, merchant need, and appropriate technological trends
• Creating beautiful and fast code that improves our codebase in meaningful ways
• Bringing context and learnings back to a team from other projects and mentoring junior developers through technically challenging decisions
• Using test-driven development to write well-tested code
• Contributing back to the open-source community

Qualifications

• A proven track record of success in leading software development teams - strong technical mentorship is a must
• An understanding of the long-term impacts of complex technical decisions
• The ability to constantly raise the bar for product development and how teams work
• Experience using technologies and frameworks like (but not limited to) some of our most-used languages - Ruby on Rails,Java/JEE, Node.js, PHP, Python- is an asset, but not required. Don't have experience with many of them? No problem - deep experience with any object-oriented language and willingness to learn our tech stack goes a long way. (Also: Check out our StackShare here.)
• 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
• Experience with relational databases and SQL

Additional Information

We know that looking for a new role can be both exciting and time-consuming, and we truly appreciate your effort.

Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity & inclusion enables us to truly make commerce better for everyone. We 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 Sustainability Reports to learn more about Shopify's commitments to our communities, and our planet: https://www.shopify.com/about/environment#SustainabilityReports

At Shopify, we understand that experience comes in many forms. We're dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team - so if your experience is this close to what we're looking for, please consider applying.

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