Engineering Manager, Ruby and Rails Infrastructure

Shopify

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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

The Engineering Manager- Ruby and Rails Infrastructure leads a team of six to twelve individual contributors to scale the foundational pieces of commerce infrastructure. This role involves managing, coaching, and growing developers while balancing technical contributions with people leadership. You will solve cutting-edge language and framework problems, collaborating with tech leads to scale the Ruby language and Rails framework for global commerce. Key responsibilities include recruiting, partnering with product teams, and ensuring the team works on internal tools and the broader open source ecosystem. Required skills include engineering management experience and deep technical expertise in programming language internals, web framework development, or building developer tools like compilers, parsers, and linters. The role specifically addresses the performance, stability, and evolution of Ruby and Rails.

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What you'll do

  • Manage a team of 6-12 individual contributors in a remote-first environment.
  • Solve complex language and framework problems to scale the world's largest Rails application.
  • Coach and grow developers to maintain a high-performing engineering team.
  • Make technical decisions regarding the scaling of the Ruby language and Rails framework.
  • Align language and framework investments with meaningful business outcomes by partnering with product teams.
  • Recruit and hire high-quality candidates to grow the Ruby and Rails Infrastructure team.
  • Contribute to the performance, stability, and evolution of Ruby and Rails both internally and upstream.

What we're looking for

  • Engineering management experience.
  • Deep technical expertise in programming language internals or web framework development, or substantial experience managing teams with this expertise.
  • Experience with Ruby and/or Ruby on Rails is preferred.
  • Experience writing Ruby and Rails code in large-scale production environments (preferred).
  • Experience contributing to Ruby, Rails, or related open-source projects (preferred).
  • History of technical writing or speaking about Ruby and Rails related topics (preferred).
  • Experience managing remote or globally distributed engineering teams (preferred).

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