Tech Lead Software Engineer – Frontend Development (Remote, Europe)

Key Skills

Java Programming, Python Programming, Database, SQL, Software Development, Large scale data processing

Job Description

At Shopify, Tech Lead Engineers (also referred to as Staff Engineers) use their expertise and passion to multiply the overall output of their development team. As a technical leader, you’ll lead the technical design, and drive your team’s vision to its implementation, through the development of high quality code, and of course, you’ll be hands-on in the code and contribute technically as well. You will largely contribute to creating and fostering a culture of collaboration and knowledge as a mentor to other engineers. Merchants that depend on Shopify for a highly scalable, performant, and reliable platform benefit directly from the work you do. Here are just some of the stories from the teams who build and scale Shopify.

Frontend Development

Our Frontend Developers 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 to develop large front-end web applications that scale and perform well on all devices. Ruby on Rails is used to add and modify controllers, models, views, and integrating front-end code into a Rails application.

Qualifications

What you’ll do as a Tech Lead Software Engineer at Shopify:

• Learn and grow constantly to feed your passion for self-improvement and make those around you better
• Design and build innovative features that are driven by web scale data
• Work through problems with your team, roll up your sleeves, form an opinion and advocate for engineering-specific roadmap items
• Collaborate with other Shopify leaders, executives and external partners to provide the best commerce experience for our merchants

Experience and skills that are important for success in this role:

• A proven track record of success in leading software development teams — strong technical mentorship is a must
• Experience building large scale, high throughput distributed systems and scaling web services, particularly those using and analyzing large amounts of data
• A passion for efficiency and collaboration, with a history of establishing great relationships with UX and Product Management teams across time zones
• A commitment and drive for quality, technical excellence and results
• 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