Senior Software Developer

Shopify is a leading cloud-based, multichannel commerce platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses. Merchants can use the software to design, set up and manage their stores across multiple sales channels, including web, mobile, social media such as Pinterest and Facebook, brick-and-mortar locations, and pop-up shops. The platform also provides a merchant with a powerful back-office and a single view of their business.

We’re looking for back-end developers with a passion for solving tough problems with performant code. If you’re interested in helping us build the future of Shopify, this job’s for you.

• Writing back-end code in Ruby and possibly Go
• Collaborating with other designers and developers
• Providing beautiful and fast code that improves our code base in meaningful ways
• Using TDD to write well-tested code
• Fixing bugs fast and taking your time to solve hard problems well
• Contributing back to the open source community
• Learning and growing constantly

• Experience with Rails or the desire to learn it quickly
• Proficiency with UNIX commands
• Experience with relational databases and SQL (we’re mostly on MySQL with some Postgres)
• Experience building and scaling user-focused web applications
• A strong commitment to quality

It'd be great if you have experience with:

• Experience contributing to our community through code, documentation, mentoring, teaching, speaking, or organizing