Overview

The Mobile Tooling team at Shopify makes the experience for Shopify’s iOS and Android developers productive and enjoyable. We do this by removing local development pain points, advocating for convention across our teams, and implementing our continuous integration and release processes. Really we complement what’s provided by Apple and Google to give our mobile devs great tools to get their job done.

We need an experienced technical and people lead who will get their hands dirty building our mobile tools as well as manage and grow our developers. This role will initially be a 50/50 split between people and project management and technical design and architecture work. As the team grows, you will shift more towards people/project management but likely never completely let go of the technical work.

In this role you’ll collaborate with other companies and share our work with the industry. Check out what we have been working on in these articles about Mobile Tophatting (testing) at Shopify and Scaling iOS CI with Anka.

You’ll need to have:

  • Technical leadership and people management experience
  • The ability to create concrete and focused project plans
  • Experience executing on complex, technical projects
  • Experience building and passion for development tools and automation
  • Good spoken and written communication skills

It’d be great if you have:

  • Experience managing distributed teams
  • Hands-on experience with any of: Ruby, Git, Kubernetes, macOS automation
  • Hands-on mobile dev experience on iOS or Android (though this role isn’t about writing mobile apps)

You’ll be working on:

  • Building and growing a productive and engaged team
  • Future direction for the team to continue to support Shopify as it scales
  • Maintaining a healthy working relationship with our mobile development teams, and advocate for cross-team standardization on best practices
  • Technical contributions to the team

We know that applying to a new role takes a lot of work and we truly value your time. Lawrence Mandel is looking forward to reading your application. Tell us why you’d be an awesome addition to our team!

About Shopify

Shopify is a leading cloud-based, multichannel commerce platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses. Merchants can use the software to design, set up and manage their stores across multiple sales channels, including web, mobile, social media such as Pinterest and Facebook, brick-and-mortar locations, and pop-up shops. The platform also provides a merchant with a powerful back-office and a single view of their business.

The Shopify platform was engineered for reliability and scale, using enterprise-level technology made available to businesses of all sizes. Shopify currently powers over 200,000 businesses in approximately 150 countries, including: Tesla Motors, Budweiser, Wikipedia, LA Lakers, the New York Stock Exchange, GoldieBlox, and many more.

Your personal growth is important to us, and we’ll give you everything you need to make it happen: learning budgets, mentorship opportunities, one-on-one coaching, skill development workshops, you name it. We encourage you to experiment, take risks, and pursue the things you care about. And if you make a mistake? That’s ok – learn from it, and share your experience with the team.

We hope you’ll love it here, but we also know that it’s not all about work. We’ll help you maintain a healthy balance with a gym allowance, parental leave, childcare benefits, flexible work hours, and catered meals to give you more time for the things you care about most.

We’re growing quickly, so there are plenty of opportunities to learn and grow. You’ll have the creative freedom to make a real difference in the world of commerce, and the chance to work with some of the best in the business.