Engineering Manager - Shopify Mobile
Remote - Americas
About the role
Millions of merchants run their businesses from the Shopify mobile app. They process orders, manage products, track sales and run marketing on the go, and for many of them it's their livelihood in their pocket. We've rebuilt the app from the ground up in native Swift and Kotlin, and designed it for both the people and the AI agents who use it.
As an Engineering Manager on Shopify Mobile, you'll lead a senior team of engineers who ship new features in the app. You'll also help teams across Shopify bring their work to mobile, either by making self-serve easy or by embedding to build alongside them. This is a hands-on line management role. You'll be deep in the code and shipping to production regularly, and you'll set a pace your team can sustain while they do the best work of their careers. We work in the open, too, so expect to share what you build with the wider engineering community.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead, coach and grow a team of senior native mobile engineers, with a high bar for craft and a pace the team can sustain
Stay hands-on: review code, ship to production regularly, and know your team's systems well enough to spot what's wrong and help fix it
Assess your team's technical work yourself, and give direct, specific feedback that helps people grow
Ship new features and improvements in the Shopify mobile app on iOS and Android
Partner with teams across Shopify to bring their features to mobile. Build the paths that let them self-serve, and embed with them when the work calls for it
Negotiate scope and timelines with stakeholders: question urgency, push back on deadlines when appropriate, and protect focus for the work that matters most
Build an app that works for merchants and for the AI agents acting on their behalf
Put AI tools to work across your team's development workflow, and keep raising the bar on how the team builds
Hold a high standard for performance, reliability and polish in an app merchants depend on to run their business
Work closely with Product, Design and your engineering peers to set direction and priorities
Hire and develop great people, and build a team culture of ownership and trust
Share what your team learns, inside Shopify and with the broader engineering community
Qualifications:
Deep, recent, hands-on experience building native mobile apps at scale on iOS (Swift, SwiftUI) or Android (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose)
A track record of shipping and operating large, complex apps used by millions of people
Proven experience as an engineering manager leading high-performing teams. You've done this before, and you know how to keep a team performing at its best over the long run
Strong technical judgment and the hands-on skills to stay close to the code: you can read a PR, debug a tricky issue and ship a fix yourself
Experience managing in a fast-moving, engineering-led technology company with a high bar for craft
Real, current fluency with AI-assisted development. You use agents and AI tools deeply in your own work, and you can show how they've changed the way you and your team build
Confidence negotiating with stakeholders and saying "no" or "not yet" with clarity and care
Excellent written and verbal communication, including making complex technical tradeoffs easy to understand
A habit of building trust, giving candid feedback and growing people's careers
Nice to have:
Experience on both iOS and Android
Frontend or backend breadth beyond mobile
Experience with mobile CI/CD, build tooling or release engineering
Mobile application security experience
A history of sharing your work publicly through talks, blog posts or open source
Engineering. It’s our DNA.
Engineering isn't a department at Shopify. It's our DNA. The engineers who thrive here care about the code, the system, and the merchants relying on both. They want hard problems and uncomfortable growth. They find solutions without waiting for permission. They ship weekly. They want commerce to work better for everyone. So does our founder, Tobi, who still codes and still shapes where this thing is going.
They're open source nerds. They pair program because two brains write better code than one. New tools, new models, new approaches. They experiment constantly. Most of what's standard here started as someone hacking on something.
They use AI like a keyboard, reflexively and everywhere, to clear the mundane and make room for thinking. And they work in the open. The fastest way to learn here is to watch someone better than you do the work. If that sounds like you, come build with us.
Mastery-matched compensation.
~Mastery
At Shopify, getting better at your craft and increasing your impact is how you grow. Twice a year, we assess both in our ~Mastery cycle, Shopify’s performance review. Achieving higher ~Mastery is a promotion, and when you earn a promotion your total rewards grow with it. Crafter and manager are equal paths, so you can pursue excellence in the craft you’re best at.
Total Rewards
With Flex Comp, your Rewards Wallet gives you agency over your compensation mix. Adjust your mix of cash, restricted share units, and stock options (including programs like Long-Term Equity)* to where it makes sense for you, and mix it up anytime as life and priorities change. Buying a house? Want more skin in the game? Just experimenting? It’s your call.
* Flex Comp program offerings vary based on location, role, and employment type. Full details are set out in our Terms & Conditions and related plan documents.
Room for the rest of your life.
Flexible work, remote by design
A flexible vacation policy means most Shopifolk can take the vacation days they feel they need to recharge.
If a change of everyday scenery is more your jam, Destination 90 means you can work from (almost) anywhere in the world for 90 days of the year.
Your setup
Your battlestation is your home base. Request the desk, chair, and AV gear you need to get shit done.
Benefits
You need ‘em, we’ve got ‘em. Our health and welfare benefits may include health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance depending on your country. If you’re in a country without a package, you'll receive a monthly allowance. We also offer mental health support for you and your dependents, including immediate and confidential services like counseling and coaching sessions.
Family support
We offer fertility benefits globally, along with paid parental leave to welcome a new family member.
Show us your craft.
The Life Story is how we understand the themes of your career journey so far, human to human. What you’ve learned, and how you made a difference. Show us the trophies and the bruises: the problems you’ve solved, the challenges you encountered, the decisions you made, and the lessons you learned along the way.
We’re looking for world-class crafters. Crafters obsessed with pursuing excellence in their field. Our craft assessment looks at your personal journey toward mastery, and your potential to go broader and deeper in novel ways.
You’ll start with an online assessment, followed by a craft assessment. Show us what you do best, and how you do it. Shopify’s bar is high, and code wins arguments around here. Let your skills do the talking.
Building on your craft assessment, these interviews dive deeper into your experience and technical aptitude. Depending on the role, this may include technical deep dives focusing on projects you've previously worked on, collaborating in a design critique, exploring a dataset using SQL, or taking the lead on solving a problem with your interviewer as your co-pilot.