Shopify

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Remote - Americas Engineering & Data About the role About the Role At Shopify, Engineering Managers drive impact by giving engineers the direction, support, and coaching needed to excel in our Ruby and Rails ecosystem. As the largest Ruby and Rails shop in the world, we're looking for passionate leaders who can combine technical expertise with people leadership to scale the foundational pieces of Shopify's commerce infrastructure. You'll lead a team of Ruby and Rails experts tackling complex problems that impact not only millions of merchants worldwide, but also the Ruby and Rails open source community. About the Team Shopify’s Ruby and Rails Infrastructure team exists to ensure that Ruby and Rails are 100-year tools that will continue to merit being Shopify’s toolchain of choice. Our goal is to be stewards of the language and ecosystem, both within Shopify and within the open source community. Ruby and Rails Infrastructure is split into three subteams, each of which operates in its own domain: Ruby Infra works on making sure the Ruby language can help scale Shopify by contributing to the performance, stability and evolution of the language and its implementation. Rails Infra are stewards of Rails within Shopify, and work on improving Shopify’s usage of Rails internally and contributing improvements back to the framework and ecosystem. Ruby Developer Experience aims to deliver an opinionated and state-of-the-art Ruby development experience to Shopify and the Ruby community. On Ruby and Rails Infrastructure, your teammates will be Ruby and Rails experts from around the world, including members of both the Ruby Core and Rails Core teams. Recent projects include building a new just-in-time compiler for Ruby, a better frontend for Ruby type checking, and a new structured logger for Rails. Key Responsibilities Manage a team working on scaling the largest Rails application in the world, making it easier and faster to develop that application, and solving cutting-edge language and framework problems along the way Collaborate with tech leads to make impactful decisions about how we scale the Ruby language, Rails framework, and our applications to support global commerce Coach and grow developers passionate about Ruby and Rails, helping maintain a high-performing team in Shopify’s unique remote-first environment Ensure the team is solving problems at the right level of the stack, whether that is internal to Shopify, or external, benefitting the wider Ruby and Rails communities Work with product teams to align language and framework improvements with business objectives Recruit and hire excellent candidates to grow the Ruby and Rails Infrastructure team What You Bring Experience managing remote or distributed engineering teams Proven leadership experience building and developing high-performing engineering teams Deep technical expertise in either language internals or web framework development Excellence in mentoring and coaching engineers to grow their technical skills and leadership ability Ability to balance technical contributions with people management and leadership responsibilities Track record of delivering impactful work that drives meaningful business outcomes, and inspiring your team to do the same Nice to Have Experience writing Ruby and Rails code, especially in especially in large-scale production environments Experience contributing to Ruby, Rails, or related open-source projects Participation in open source communities and development; familiarity with common open source contribution workflows Background in compiler development, type systems, frameworks or language implementations History of technical writing or speaking about Ruby and Rails related topics At Shopify, we move quickly—our hiring process aims to complete the entire interview loop within 30 days, including a pair programming interview where you'll demonstrate your Ruby expertise. Join us in our mission to make commerce better for everyone while advancing the Ruby and Rails ecosystem for developers worldwide. About Shopify Opportunity is not evenly distributed. Shopify puts independence within reach for anyone with a dream to start a business. We propel entrepreneurs and enterprises to scale the heights of their potential. Since 2006, we’ve grown to over 8,300 employees and generated over $1 trillion in sales for millions of merchants in 175 countries. This is life-defining work that directly impacts people’s lives as much as it transforms your own. This is putting the power of the few in the hands of the many, is a future with more voices rather than fewer, and is creating more choices instead of an elite option. About you Moving at our pace brings a lot of change, complexity, and ambiguity—and a little bit of chaos. Shopifolk thrive on that and are comfortable being uncomfortable. That means Shopify is not the right place for everyone. Before you apply, consider if you can: Care deeply about what you do and about making commerce better for everyone Excel by seeking professional and personal hypergrowth Keep up with an unrelenting pace (the week, not the quarter) Be resilient and resourceful in face of ambiguity and thrive on (rather than endure) change Bring critical thought and opinion Use AI tools reflexively as part of your fundamental workflow Embrace differences and disagreement to get shit done and move forward Work digital-first for your daily work Shopifyhttps://www.shopify.com We hire people, not resumes. If you think you’re right for the role, apply now. First things first We want to ensure you’re the type of person who will thrive here so we can move you quickly through our hiring process. Before completing the job application, please check all the statements that apply to you below: I care deeply about what I do I am always seeking new (sometimes uncomfortable) growth I thrive on change in an ambiguous environment I get shit done and can keep pace to ship weekly I want to work remotely for my daily work I have a history of being resilient and resourceful I want to make commerce better for everyone It looks like you might not be a great fit for Shopify at this time — while we encourge everyone to apply, we are looking for someone who can meet all these criteria.