About the role
At Shopify, Engineering Managers drive impact by giving engineers the direction, support, and coaching needed to excel in our Ruby and Rails ecosystem. As the largest Ruby and Rails shop in the world, we're looking for passionate leaders who can combine technical expertise with people leadership to scale the foundational pieces of Shopify's commerce infrastructure.
You'll lead a team of Ruby and Rails experts tackling complex problems that impact not only millions of merchants worldwide, but also the Ruby and Rails open source community.
About the Team
Shopify’s Ruby and Rails Infrastructure team exists to ensure that Ruby and Rails are 100-year tools that will continue to merit being Shopify’s toolchain of choice. Our goal is to be stewards of the language and ecosystem, both within Shopify and within the open source community.
Ruby and Rails Infrastructure is split into three subteams, each of which operates in its own domain:
Ruby Infrastructure works on making sure the Ruby language continues scaling at Shopify by contributing to the performance, stability and evolution of the language and its implementation internally and upstream.
Rails Infrastructure are stewards of Rails within Shopify, and work on improving Shopify’s usage of Rails internally and contributing improvements back to the framework and ecosystem.
Ruby Developer Experience aims to deliver an opinionated and state-of-the-art Ruby development experience to Shopify and the Ruby community.
On Ruby and Rails Infrastructure, your teammates will be Ruby and Rails experts from around the world, including members of both the Ruby Core Committers and Rails Core teams.
Recent projects include building a new just-in-time compiler for Ruby, a better frontend for Ruby type checking, and a new structured logger for Rails.
Key Responsibilities
In this role, your day-to-day responsibilities will include:
Managing a team of 6-12 individual contributors while working alongside 3 peer managers and reporting to the group's director.
Solving cutting-edge language and framework problems while scaling the largest Rails application in the world.
Collaborating with tech leads to make impactful decisions about how we scale the Ruby language, Rails framework, and our applications to support global commerce.
Balancing technical contributions with people management and leadership responsibilities.
Coaching and growing developers passionate about Ruby and Rails, helping maintain a high-performing team in Shopify’s unique remote-first environment.
Ensuring the team works at the right level of the stack—whether internal to Shopify or in the broader Ruby and Rails ecosystem.
Partnering with product teams to align language and framework investments with meaningful business outcomes
Recruiting and hiring excellent candidates to grow the Ruby and Rails Infrastructure team.
What You Bring
Engineering management experience
You are excited about AI and how it will transform how we write code in the next year and beyond.
Deep technical expertise in programming language internals or web framework development OR substantial experience managing teams with this kind of expertise
Examples of relevant technical experience include:
Implementing language internals such as parsers, compilers, interpreters, or runtimes
Designing and implementing type systems
Developing web application frameworks (Rails, Django, etc.)
Building developer tools such as language servers, linters, or other static analysis tools
Experience with Ruby and/or Ruby on Rails is preferred, but we welcome candidates with comparable depth in other languages and frameworks
Nice to Have
Experience writing Ruby and Rails code, especially in large-scale production environments
Experience contributing to Ruby, Rails, or related open-source projects
History of technical writing or speaking about Ruby and Rails related topics
Experience managing remote or globally distributed engineering teams
At Shopify, we move quickly—our hiring process aims to complete the entire interview loop within 30 days, including a pair programming interview where you'll demonstrate your Ruby expertise.
Join us in our mission to make commerce better for everyone while advancing the Ruby and Rails ecosystem for developers worldwide.
About Shopify
Opportunity is not evenly distributed. Shopify puts independence within reach for anyone with a dream to start a business. We propel entrepreneurs and enterprises to scale the heights of their potential. Since 2006, we’ve grown to over 8,300 employees and generated over $1 trillion 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 you
Moving at our pace brings a lot of change, complexity, and ambiguity—and a little bit of chaos. Shopifolk thrive on that and are comfortable being uncomfortable. That means Shopify is not the right place for everyone.
Before you apply, consider if you can:
- Care deeply about what you do and about making commerce better for everyone
- Excel by seeking professional and personal hypergrowth
- Keep up with an unrelenting pace (the week, not the quarter)
- Be resilient and resourceful in face of ambiguity and thrive on (rather than endure) change
- Bring critical thought and opinion
- Put AI agents and tools to work on the tasks they're built for, and focus on the work only humans can do
- Embrace differences and disagreement to get shit done and move forward
- Work digital-first for your daily work
We may use AI-enabled tools to screen, select, and assess applications. All AI outputs are reviewed and validated by our recruitment team.
