Email Tech Lead - Front End Development (Remote, Americas)

Company Description

Shopify is a leading global commerce company, providing trusted tools to start, grow, market, and manage a retail business of any size. Shopify makes commerce better for everyone with a platform and services that are engineered for reliability, while delivering a better shopping experience for consumers everywhere. Shopify powers millions of businesses in more than 175 countries and is trusted by brands such as Allbirds, Gymshark, PepsiCo, Staples, and many more.

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.

Front End Development for Email

https://www.shopify.com/email-marketing

The Email team is responsible for Shopify's own out of the box email marketing solution for our merchants, a first party app used by hundreds of thousands of merchants that send billions of emails. We are responsible for building and evolving our React email editor as well as building reporting and management capabilities for the app.

Our Front End Engineers collaborate closely with software engineering teams, designers, product managers, and marketers to not only build incredible merchant-facing products and marketing campaigns, but also developer-facing tools. You’ll use the latest web standards in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and modern technologies and frameworks like Typescript, React, GraphQL, Apollo and Ruby on Rails, to develop large front-end web applications and websites that scale and perform well on all devices. Front End Development exists across all of Shopify, from Product to Marketing, working closely with the teams that create performant experiences and communicate Shopify’s impact on commerce to a global audience. You may also collaborate with our Data and SEO teams, helping us make data informed decisions and driving additional new merchant acquisition. You might focus on creating thoughtful interfaces for our users, shaping our design language, and contributing to our shared component libraries in a maintainable and scalable way.
 

Qualifications

What you’ll do as a Tech Lead Front End 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 development leaders, executives and external partners to provide the best experiences for our users

• A Tech Lead at Shopify typically has 7+ years of experience as a developer.

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

• A proven track record of leading the technical direction for software development teams — strong technical mentorship is a must
• Deep experience building high-quality and high-impact user experiences
• High level of fluency with and experience using React and Typescript
• A passion for efficiency and collaboration, with a history of establishing great relationships across UX, Product Management, Product Marketing, and Data teams 
• 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

Additional Information

We know that looking for a new role can be both exciting and time-consuming, and we truly appreciate your effort. And remember, we want to know what you’re really interested in building and why you want to build it at Shop, so please give us as much detail on this as you’d like in the answers on the next page. 👍 📖

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Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity & inclusion enables us to truly make commerce better for everyone. We encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse