Engineering Manager, Ruby and Rails Infrastructure

Shopify

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Posted
134 days ago
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About Shopify

Shopify is a leading global commerce platform that enables businesses of all sizes to start, grow, and manage their retail operations online and in-person. It provides tools for storefronts, payments, shipping, and marketing to millions of merchants worldwide.

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TL;DR · Engineering Manager, Ruby and Rails Infrastructure

As an Engineering Manager- Ruby and Rails Infrastructure, you will lead a team of six to twelve individual contributors focused on scaling foundational pieces of commerce infrastructure. You will manage day-to-day operations by balancing technical contributions with people leadership, coaching, and recruiting while collaborating with tech leads to solve complex problems regarding the Ruby language and Rails framework. Your work involves ensuring these tools remain stable for large-scale applications and contributing improvements back to the open source community. The role requires expertise in programming language internals, such as parsers, compilers, or runtimes; web framework development; or building developer tools like linters and type systems. You will utilize Ruby and Rails to manage technical investments that align with business outcomes while navigating the complexities of large-scale production environments and global commerce infrastructure.

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What you'll do

  • Manage a team of 6-12 individual contributors within a remote-first environment.
  • Solve complex technical problems related to scaling the Ruby language and Rails framework.
  • Coach and develop engineers to maintain high performance and growth in their careers.
  • Balance personal technical contributions with people management and leadership responsibilities.
  • Align infrastructure investments with business outcomes by partnering with product teams.
  • Recruit and hire high-quality candidates to grow the Ruby and Rails Infrastructure team.
  • Contribute to the broader Ruby and Rails open source ecosystems.

What we're looking for

  • Experience in engineering management.
  • Deep technical expertise in programming language internals or web framework development.
  • Substantial experience managing teams with deep expertise in programming languages or web frameworks.
  • Relevant experience in implementing parsers, compilers, interpreters, runtimes, type systems, or developer tools.
  • Experience developing web application frameworks like Rails or Django.
  • Proficiency in Ruby and/or Ruby on Rails is preferred.
  • Experience managing remote or globally distributed engineering teams is a plus.
  • Experience contributing to open-source projects or technical writing regarding Ruby and Rails is a plus.

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