Development Manager

Shopify 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.


Job Description
Relevant Experience:
A passion for helping growing development teams and making others better
Experience with web or mobile applications for a consumer facing audience
Worked on large scale, high throughput systems and scaling web/api services
Strong foundation in Object Oriented programming and fluency in at least one OO language
Comfortable with relational databases and SQL (we mostly use MySQL)
A commitment and drive for quality, and building for the long term
A love of your craft and a curiosity and passion to constantly learn new things
A track record of taking ownership on problems and projects


Qualifications
What you'll be working on:
Managing the growth and development of talented technical teams
Giving timely and constructive feedback, as well as being open to receiving it!
Setting expectations, and holding teams accountable
Working with your team to build a highly scalable system
Designing, building, deploying and maintaining Ruby-based GraphQL APIs with new resources, features, and improvements. You will be hands on keyboard for 30-40% of time at the beginning of this role as we grow out the team
Building performant solutions that scale to hundreds of millions of users
We mostly use Ruby on Rails, along with Kafka for a messaging bus, Redis for background jobs, and ElasticSearch for search. We deploy 10+ times a day to Google Cloud with Kubernetes