Backend Developer

About the role

Shopify is a leading cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform that empowers entrepreneurs all around the world to build and grow their businesses. Our engineering teams are building at scale and shaping the future of commerce.

The Stockholm team is working on a stealth new project and we’re looking for dedicated and versatile software developers with a passion for solving tough problems with performant code.

Relevant Experience

  • Building backend web services using several languages and frameworks (some tools we use include Ruby, UNIX commands, Go, Kafka, Python)
  • Strong foundation in OO principles and fluency in at least one OO language
  • Comfortable with relational databases and SQL (we mostly use MySQL)
  • Experience with Ruby on Rails, or the desire to learn it quickly
  • A mindset for long-term solutions
  • A love of your craft and a curiosity and passion to constantly learn new things

Nice to have but not essential

  • Experience with web development (we mostly use React)
  • Experience with GraphQL
  • A history of contributing to the developer community through code, documentation, mentoring, teaching, speaking, or organizing
  • A passion for helping growing development teams and making others better

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.

Shopify

An e-commerce platform.

Technology we use

Javascript
Python
SQL
Go
Swift
Ruby
TypeScript
MySQL
React
AWS
HTML
CSS
Rails
Redux
Django
Angular
GraphQL
Vue