Senior Engineer - React to React Native, (Remote, Americas)
| Location | Americas |
| Team | Engineering & Development |
About the role
As an Engineer at Shopify you will collaborate closely with designers, content strategists, product managers, and data scientists to build incredible products and experiences for our merchants. You’ll be part of a world class team of engineers working with the latest technologies.
Never used React Native? There is no need to have prior React Native experience. We are looking for Front-end Developers with a strong grasp of React who are open to making the transition into React Native mobile development! If successful, we will support you with onboarding & training to learn React Native & mobile best practices.
As a Mobile Developer, you will also have the responsibility of helping Shopify in our goal of adopting React Native in all mobile applications by partnering with existing Native Engineers, React, and React Native Experts. React Native is the future of mobile at Shopify and we are all in.
Qualifications
What you’ll do as a Senior Mobile Engineer at Shopify:
Collaborate with a cross-functional team of developers, designers, and product managers.
Write well-tested code using a blend of Unit and E2E testing frameworks and strategies.
Be an advocate for a world-class user experience for our merchants.
Fixing bugs fast but taking your time to solve hard problems well.
Contributing back to the open source community
Experience and skills that are important for success in this role:
Experience with React, Javascript (TypeScript is a plus)
A strong understanding of React Fundamentals, whether on Web or Mobile
Experience with at least one CSS-in-JS styling framework
Experience Testing React applications using Jest, Appium, React Testing Library, or Enzyme
A passion for performance and understanding how to create a performant React Application.
Experience using React and Browser DevTools to diagnose Performance issues
Experience with relational databases and SQL
Bonus Points: You’ve mentored teammates on new ways to deepen their technical craft and helped them level up.
Curiosity and passion to constantly learn new things; Shopify changes fast, and we need the people who work here to be able to change and learn fast too.
What does onboarding/support look like?
All developers will go through Engineering Onboarding where you will get the opportunity to learn React Native
Own Your Own Development - we will reimburse you for books, courses & other learning materials needed to learn React Native!
Mentorship through your teammates or participation in our Dev Mentorship Program
We have some awesome mobile-specific internal communities/guilds where you can network and learn from other great mobile developers!
We’re huge fans of learning through paired programming!
Closing date:
Sunday, May 22nd at 11:59PM EDT. Successful candidates can expect to hear back from us by Monday, June 6th at 5 pm EDT.
Shopify is now permanently remote and working towards a future that is digital by default. Learn more about what this can mean for you.
We know that looking for a new role can be both exciting and time-consuming, and we truly appreciate your effort. Canny is an actual real live person (👋🏻) and is looking forward to learning more about you through your application. And remember, we want to know what you're really interested in building and why you want to build it at Shopify, so please give us as much detail on this as you'd like in the answers on the next page. 👍 📖
Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity & inclusion enables us to truly make commerce better for everyone. We encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities, and/or people with intersectional identities. Please take a look at our Sustainability Reports to learn more about Shopify’s commitments to our communities, and our planet.
At Shopify, we understand that experience comes in many forms. We’re dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team - so if your experience is this close to what we’re looking for, please consider applying.
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