Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Shopify

Core Commerce

Salary not provided

Kubernetes

Ruby

Ruby on Rails

Senior and Expert level

Remote from Canada

Cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform for SMEs

Job no longer available

Cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform for SMEs

1001+ employees

RetailB2BInternal toolsPaymentseCommerceSales

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

Kubernetes

Ruby

Ruby on Rails

Senior and Expert level

Remote from Canada

1001+ employees

RetailB2BInternal toolsPaymentseCommerceSales

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.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Kubernetes programming experience
Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform’s products and services
Strong programming skills in Go, Ruby, and some level of experience in Ruby on Rails
Feel comfortable collaborating with other team members across disciplines
Feel comfortable writing technical documentation and strong communication skills
Technical leadership in promoting innovative solutions
A problem seeker and a problem solver

What the job involves

Provide technical leadership on highly impactful projects
Participate and lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide on available technologies
Influence and mentor a distributed team of engineers
Promote collaboration and clarification across teams on objectives, outcomes, and timelines
Manage project scopes, milestones, priorities, and releases
Design, develop, deploy, and quality control of large scale complex software solutions

Our take

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.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

-7% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.3)

Trustpilot (1.3)

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 HQ

Downtown, Ottawa, ON

Leadership

Tobias Lütke

(CEO)

Launched an online snowboard shop before shifting to e-commerce and building Shopify

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