Engineering & Data at Shopify

Engineering & Data

Engineering is our DNA. It underpins our mission to make commerce better for everyone and how we work as a company. [Read: literally everything we do.]

Engineers join Shopify to work alongside the world's best technical minds. Working together to solve massive technical problems forces a constant levelling up of technical excellence. Think unreal challenge. Think unreal scale. Think unreal impact.

While entrepreneurship defines Shopify, open source defines us as engineers. Contributing to open source is a huge deal to us, and it’s a commitment to give back to something bigger than ourselves. We’re:

• Founder-led by an engineer (waves at Tobi).

• Pair programming aficionados because it = better code, stronger teams, and kicks down silos.

• AI natives. We're extremely familiar and well-versed with AI and integrate it into our habits, workflows, and decision-making.

• Bullish on doing what’s right for the code, the overall system, and merchants. Our system architecture supports a performant network, not false boundaries.

• All about getting shit done. We focus on doing the thing and doing it well — at speed. Great documentation is treated as a product.

• Hackers at heart. We take time to tinker, and playing with new tech and tooling is key to consistently raising the bar as a crafter here.

We do things differently 🔥

Shopify engineers are spiky generalists with deep proficiency in specific areas we've honed throughout our careers. We default to the most important work rather than adhering to a prescriptive role – and we hire the same way. We hire the best people and match their expertise to our most exciting work.

Share your preference on what you’d like to work on during your interviews — if you join the team, we’ll match you where we know you’ll do your best work.