Engineering Manager- Ruby and Rails Infrastructure

Shopify

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Posted: 44 days ago

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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

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As an Engineering Manager at Shopify’s Ruby and Rails Infrastructure team, you will lead a dynamic group of 6-12 individual contributors focused on scaling the largest Rails application globally. Your role involves balancing technical contributions with people management to ensure high performance in a remote-first environment. Day-to-day responsibilities include coaching developers, making impactful decisions about language and framework scalability, and aligning investments with business outcomes. Ideal candidates possess deep expertise in programming language internals or web frameworks, experience managing teams with similar skills, and a passion for Ruby and Rails. Familiarity with AI’s impact on coding is also valued. This role offers the opportunity to contribute significantly to both Shopify's commerce infrastructure and the broader Ruby and Rails open-source community.

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Ruby Rails Python JavaScript Go Java TypeScript C++ Docker Kubernetes CI/CD Git GitHub Jenkins PostgreSQL MySQL Redis MongoDB Linux AWS Azure Google Cloud Platform DevOps Agile Scrum

What you'll do

Manage a team of 6-12 individual contributors focused on Ruby and Rails infrastructure.
Solve complex language and framework problems to scale Shopify’s largest Rails application.
Coach and grow developers passionate about Ruby and Rails in a remote-first environment.
Ensure the team contributes effectively both internally at Shopify and within the open-source community.
Align technical investments with business outcomes by partnering with product teams.

What we're looking for

Engineering management experience with teams of 6-12 individual contributors.
Deep technical expertise in programming language internals or web framework development.
Experience managing remote or globally distributed engineering teams.
Passionate about AI's impact on code writing and software development.
Substantial experience with Ruby and/or Ruby on Rails, preferred but not mandatory.
History of contributing to open-source projects related to Ruby or Rails.

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