Software Engineer - Backend (Remote, Egypt)

Company Description

Shopify is a leading global commerce company, providing trusted tools to
start, grow, market, and manage a retail business of any size. Shopify makes
commerce better for everyone with a platform and services that are engineered
for reliability, while delivering a better shopping experience for consumers
everywhere. Shopify powers millions of businesses in more than ‎175 countries
and is trusted by brands such as Allbirds, Gymshark, PepsiCo, Staples, and
many more.

Job Description

Shopify is on a fast-moving mission to make the best products for merchants,
buyers, and partners around the globe -- and developers play a vital role in
building that future. Here are just some of the stories from the engineering
teams who build and scale Shopify.

We're looking for:
Back End Engineers with a passion for solving tough problems with performant
code work on teams that ship on quality instead of on time. Our teams deploy
new code many times a day, and our production scale is massive. We 're talking
about millions of online stores, and hundreds of millions of requests a day.
Thousands of entrepreneurs will see your work within seconds - a difficult but
incredibly rewarding responsibility. Shopify is the largest Ruby on Rails
application in the world and we're a big part of the Rails community. We're
constantly improving our codebase to make it even better.

Qualifications

What you 'll do as a Software Engineer at Shopify:
* Collaborating with other designers and engineers
* Creating beautiful and fast code that improves our code base in meaningful ways
* Using test-driven development to write well-tested code
* Fixing bugs fast and taking your time to solve hard problems well
* Building and maintaining Shopify's critical infrastructure through software and systems engineering
* Contributing back to the open source community

Experience and skills that are important for success in this role:
* Experience using technologies and frameworks like (but not limited to) some of our most-used languages -- Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, Java/JEE, Node.js, PHP, Python, React or React Native, Golang, Kubernetes -- is an asset, but not required. Don't have experience with many of them? No problem -- deep experience with any object-oriented language and willingness to learn our tech stack goes a long way.
* Experience with relational databases and SQL
* 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 to
* Bonus Points : You've mentored teammates on new ways to deepen their technical craft

Additional Information

We know that looking for a new role can be both exciting and time-consuming,
and we truly appreciate your effort. And remember, we want to know what you're
really interested in building and why you want to build it at Shop, so please
give us as much detail on this as you'd like in the answers on the next page.
Interested, but not ready to apply?
Join the Shopify Talent Community to learn more about us, while you polish
up your resume: https://www.shopify.com/careers/teams/engineering
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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.