Staff Developer of Mobile Engineering, Shopify
Cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform for SMEs
Job no longer available
Cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform for SMEs
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
Shopify's mission is to make commerce better for everyone, so businesses can focus on what they do best: building and selling their products.
Role
Who you are
- 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 — and embrace differences and disagreement to get shit done and move forward
- Proficiency with React Native
- Depth and breadth of experience with different technologies across the stack, and strong opinions on pros and cons of each
- Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve high-value technical issues within the team's scope, driving them to effective solutions
- Expertly worked with all major connected components, specializing in one or two of them
- Proven track record of constructing and maintaining critical system components integral to our product's functionality
- Successfully forged alignment with senior stakeholders on technical direction for ambiguous problem areas
- Developed and enhanced technical patterns that significantly influenced engineering practices across the organization
- Provided leadership and guidance beyond one-on-one mentorship, playing a pivotal role in improving engineering practices
- Propelled the team towards heightened operational excellence, impacting not only your team but also neighboring ones
- Defined new patterns that were widely adopted across the engineering subdiscipline, shaping the group's technical strategy
- Represented our technical direction within the industry context, setting a higher standard for operational excellence across multiple teams
- Identified and tackled high leverage, high complexity technical problems, driving impactful solutions that had a significant positive impact
What the job involves
- Our 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 Mobile teams default to using React Native, but drop to native when it makes sense, so openness to learn cross-platform mobile development is a must!
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Prior to Shopify, eCommerce solutions for online businesses were a pretty ramshackle affair, either picked from a poor selection of expensive off-the-shelf products or developed in-house. Shopify was born from its founder's frustration in setting up a store to sell snowboards online. Since then it has grown into the world's biggest eCommerce platform, with over 1 million active merchants using the platform to sell almost anything imaginable over the internet.
Today Shopify has a commanding lead among eCommerce platforms, though it may be threatened by the rapid growth of its rival WooCommerce, which is popular in online stores built using WordPress. However Shopify has made moves to stay ahead of the competition, developing new products such as Shopify Collabs which makes it easier for influencers to collaborate with brands, and offering financing services to eligible merchants to support their business growth.
Shopify has enjoyed strong growth in the years since its IPO, achieving more than 26% revenue growth compared to 2022 in 2023 alone, driven by the continuing shift to online shopping and the improved capabilities of the platform. It will be looking to build on this growth by continuing to develop its range of products and making further strategic acquisitions to support its platform.
Insights
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2013
$100m
SERIES C
Oct 2011
$15m
SERIES B
Total funding: $122.3m
Company benefits
- Great parental leave policies, including a $1000 baby bonus
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Education - We’re a learner’s organisation, made up of PhDs, university drop outs, and everything in between. We learn by doing – doing well, doing not so well, failing hard, and doing better
- Skills - Making great decisions quickly, thriving on change, being a constant learner, building for the long term
- Interests - Professional development, personal development, learning from others, problem solving, entrepreneurship, experimentation
- Achievements - We get to solve problems we’re passionate about, and help entrepreneurs do what they love, every single day. Recognition is icing on the cake
Company HQ
Downtown, Ottawa, ON
Founders
Tobias Lütke
(CEO)Launched an online snowboard shop before shifting to e-commerce and building Shopify
People progressing
Started as a Talent Scout, later becoming Director of Talent Acquisition after nearly 3 years. Was promoted to Director of Product Acceleration after a further 5 years.
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