About the role
Core Optimize Data Science & Engineering is an interdisciplinary product group that builds:
the foundational data infrastructure that powers the analytical experiences
product analytics to understand how merchants use analytics to grow their businesses
discovery and investigation data products to enable deeper usage of analytics for merchants
ML powered data products that render network effects to merchants
The OptimizeDevelop Data Engineering team plays a critical role within this group, developing the tools, capabilities, data models, and interfaces for Shopify and its partners to access the freshest, cleanest data available.
In this role, you will lead a team of Data Engineers tasked with extending the current capabilities of our data access layer, data models, and data warehouse to enable new analytical experiences for our merchants. Your team will partner with Data Science, Data Foundations, Compute and Streaming teams by maintaining and optimizing backend infrastructure tooling for analytical model and ETL development.
The tooling developed and maintained by this group allows our Data Scientists to operationalize complex, low latency data sets that drive analytical experiences from initial deployment through to production. You will be tasked with:
Providing people and technical leadership within your team to support the mission
Working closely with a cross-functional team of data scientists, data engineers, and engineering leaders
Defining and executing on your team’s deliverables
All aspects of performance management, including compensation, performance improvement plans, promotions, and separations
Qualifications
A Data Engineering Manager at Shopify would typically have 2+ years of previous experience managing engineering teams, and 5+ years of hands-on data/software engineering experience
Highly technical and familiar with all components of a typical data stack (ranging from data acquisition, storage, modeling and process, to serving); You don’t mind getting into the nitty gritty or jumping into the code
Familiarity with Go, Python and/or Scala, PySpark and/or Flink
Proven experience managing data development teams with strong focus on business impact
Experience hiring and mentoring high-caliber, data-focused engineers and managers with diverse technical strengths and backgrounds
Exceptional communication skills, you can easily translate technical concepts into easy to understand language for our stakeholders and partners, both technical and non-technical
Ability to design cross-org performance and improvement metrics and turn that into roadmaps for the teams
You have successfully led and grown data development teams in your career
You are committed to continuous improvement, technical excellence and results
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 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.
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
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.
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.