Engineering Manager
Remote - Americas
About the role
At Shopify, our Engineering Managers are engineers first. You'll lead a team building products that millions of merchants rely on every day, and you'll do it from close to the code. That means reading the diffs, shaping the designs, and knowing exactly why the system behaves the way it does.
This isn't a role about herding people or chasing status updates. You'll give your team the direction, support and coaching to ship great work, and ship it fast. You'll make sharp calls on product and architecture that reach millions of people. Leading others is where you've found your biggest impact, but you've never lost your love for building, and you still get your hands dirty.
Our teams work across the stack, from AI-powered products to resilient data platforms and the infrastructure behind global commerce. Wherever you land, you'll be expected to go deep.
We hire fast, too. Be ready to interview within the week. Our process includes a hands-on pair programming interview in your own IDE using AI and a systems design interview; because we hire leaders who are still very much passionate about their craft.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead, coach and grow a team of Senior engineers, with a high bar for craft, ownership and accountability
Assess your team's technical work yourself, and give direct, specific feedback that helps people grow and raise the bar on performance within your team
Stay deep in the technical work: shape system designs, review code, and contribute directly when it moves the team forward
Make sharp, timely decisions on architecture, product direction and tradeoffs, and own the outcomes
Ship weekly, keeping the team focused on getting high-quality work into merchants' hands
Put AI tools and agents to work in how your team designs, builds and ships
Partner with Product, Design, Data and other engineering teams to align on goals and deliver together
Hire great engineers and build a team culture of trust, candor and continuous learning
Turn ambiguous problems into clear plans, and adjust quickly when things change
Qualifications:
Proven experience as an engineering manager, building and leading high-performing teams
Deep software engineering expertise: you've designed, built and shipped production systems yourself, and you can still go hands-on
The technical judgment to evaluate designs, spot problems early and help your team solve them
A track record of shipping often and iteratively without trading away quality
Experience building or operating systems at meaningful scale
Real, current fluency with AI-assisted development, and curiosity about how it changes the way teams build
Excellent communication, including the ability to make complex technical tradeoffs clear to engineers and non-engineers alike
A passion for mentoring and developing engineers, and for building a positive, high-trust team culture
Comfort making decisions with incomplete information, and the humility to change course
This role may require on-call work
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.