## About the role At Shopify, Staff Developers use their expertise and passion to multiply the overall output of their development team. As a Staff Developer, you’ll help drive the product vision to its implementation. You and the team will design and build technically innovative solutions that empower all teams at Shopify to build powerful and resilient distributed cloud software. Merchants that depend on Shopify for a highly scalable, performant, and reliable platform benefit directly from the work you do. You will maintain a high bar for quality and lead and mentor other developers. You’ll also be hands-on in our code and will contribute technically. Here are just [some of the stories](https://https://www.shopify.com/careers/staff-software-developer-back-end-mobile-or-front-end-development-remote-americas-4d75296d) from the teams who build and scale Shopify. Intrigued? That’s great! We’re recruiting Staff Software Developers to join teams in any one of these disciplines. Based on your experience and interests, let us know which one you identify with most in your application!

 ### Back End Development At Shopify, Back End Developers with a passion for solving tough problems with performant code work on teams that ship on quality instead of on time. Our teams deploy new code many times a day, and our production scale is massive. We’re talking over 1 million online stores, and hundreds of millions of requests a day. Thousands of entrepreneurs will see your work within seconds – a difficult but incredibly rewarding responsibility. Shopify is the largest Ruby on Rails application in the world and we're a big part of the Rails community. We’re constantly improving our codebase to make it even better. ### Mobile Development (React Native, Android & iOS) Our Mobile Developers 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 Android developers use Kotlin and our iOS developers use Swift. Our teams are increasingly working with [React Native](https://shopify.engineering/react-native-future-mobile-shopify) so openness to cross-platform mobile development is a plus! ### Front End Development Our Front End Developers (encompassing web and UX) 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, and the latest web standards in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, and Ruby on Rails, to develop large front-end web applications that scale and perform well on all devices.You’ll work across disciplines and are excited about building human-centered experiences. You’ll work closely with the teams that create compelling content, build awareness of Shopify, and communicate stories about Shopify's role in commerce to a global audience. Or, you might focus on creating thoughtful product interfaces for our users, shape our design language, and contribute to our shared component libraries in a maintainable and scalable way. ## Qualifications **What you’ll do as a Staff Developer at Shopify:** * Learn and grow constantly to feed your passion for self-improvement and make those around you better * Design and build highly available, resilient and scalable platform primitives & API * 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 We know that looking for a new role can be both exciting and time-consuming, and we truly appreciate your effort. Jane is an actual real live person (👋🏻) and is looking forward to learning more about you through your application. And remember, we want to know what you're really interested in building and why you want to build it at Shopify, so please give us as much detail on this as you'd like in the answers on the next page. 👍 📖 At Shopify, we are committed to building and fostering an environment where our employees feel included, valued, and heard. Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion enables us to truly make commerce better for everyone. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities. Please take a look at our [2019 Sustainability Report](https://s23.q4cdn.com/550512644/files/doc_downloads/2020/2019-Shopify-Sustainability-Report.pdf) to learn more about Shopify's commitments. ### Interested, but not ready to apply? Join the Shopify Talent Community to learn more about us, while you polish up your resume: [https://www.shopify.com/careers/2021](https://www.shopify.com/careers/2021)