Senior Frontend Engineer, Creative Engineering (Marketing)

About Shopify
Opportunity is not evenly distributed. Shopify puts independence within reach for anyone with a dream to start a business. Since 2006, we’ve grown to over 10,000 employees and generated over $496 billion in sales for millions of merchants in 175 countries.
This is life-defining work that directly impacts people’s lives as much as it transforms your own. This is putting the power of the few in the hands of the many, is a future with more voices rather than fewer, and is creating more choices instead of an elite option.
About The Role
The Creative Engineering team builds compelling user experiences that tell the story of Shopify and its products to customers, prospects, and partners. Our job is to create a world where more entrepreneurs exist and make sure they love Shopify. We collaborate closely with designers, content strategists, product managers, data scientists, and our broader marketing teams to produce websites and campaigns that dazzle users with visuals, animations, and engaging content… all with leading web performance metrics, accessibility, reliability, and at global scale. We are stewards of web development best practices, applying the latest HTML, CSS, and JavaScript APIs, and working with React and Remix to deliver experiences that scale and perform well on all devices.
Senior Frontend Engineers in the Creative Engineering team use their expertise and passion to multiply the overall output of their development team. You’re as comfortable discussing performance and web vitals as color palettes and motion design. As a technical leader within Marketing, you’ll work among our team of Frontend Engineers on campaigns and initiatives across various marketing channels and touchpoints. You’ll engineer design systems, tools, and platforms (like CMS) that enable fast-paced changes and highly-dynamic requirements. You’ll lead planning, resourcing, and executing projects and will also collaborate across different crafts and leadership teams to help realize a diverse set of creative projects. You will maintain a high bar for quality and lead and mentor other engineers. And of course, you’ll be hands-on in the code and contribute technically.
Qualifications

• Familiar with tracking, experiment, and attribution systems (and an understanding of why these are important)
• Demonstrated mastery of server and client-side React (Remix is a plus) and strong understanding of web technologies including latest HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Deep understanding of one or more specific client-side areas like animation, web performance, or accessibility for example.
• Able to balance trade-offs appropriately to ship solutions in the short-term while building for the long term and aligning with Shopify engineering principles and patterns.
• Familiarity with web visuals/motion, SVG, masking, threeJS, GSAP
• Experience working with (and contributing to) design systems and component libraries.
• Leadership to provide technical direction, and mentor other developers to ramp them up for increased impact.
• An eye for detail and a high quality bar; strong advocate for the team applying the right patterns and improving capacity to ship great code.

Nice to have:

• Previous work in an agency or creative environment delivering large-scale, multi-language websites, microsites, landing pages, and campaigns with complex internationalization and localization requirements.
• Experience working in/on CMS systems is a plus.
• Familiarity with Ruby on Rails and Node.js is a plus.

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.