Mobile Software Engineer

Shopify

Mobile Software Engineer

Code is core at Shopify. As a Mobile Software Engineer, you'll craft the innovative and scalable code that powers commerce across the globe. Your mission: build extendable products that enhance every layer of the commerce stack—from exceptional buying experiences to groundbreaking financial products and dynamic developer tools. Embrace the unorthodox, iterate rapidly, and develop solutions that empower merchants to thrive in the infinite game of entrepreneurship.

Key Responsibilities

• Take ownership of a significant part of Shopify's native mobile apps — shaping technical direction and architecture, and shipping complex, high-craft iOS and Android features yourself, not just directing from a distance.
• Stay at the frontier of applying AI to mobile development, leveraging swarms of agents to build complex features at a fast pace without compromising on quality, and teach others how to do the same.
• Make the engineers around you better through code review, pairing, and leading by example.
• Take on big, ambiguous problems: build major features and shape the architecture and direction of Shopify's mobile apps.
• Work closely with stakeholders across and beyond engineering, including product, design, and support.
• Help find and evaluate great engineers to grow the team.

Qualifications

• Deep experience building and operating production native mobile applications at the scale of millions of users around the world.

• Strong command of Swift and SwiftUI, or Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.

• Demonstrated ability to review, debug, and guide work across both platforms, even if one is the primary area of expertise.

• Experience designing maintainable mobile architecture across state, effects, dependencies, navigation, persistence, and platform lifecycles.

• Strong judgment around concurrency and cancellation, including Swift structured concurrency or Kotlin coroutines and Flow.

• Experience designing mobile APIs on GraphQL and data layers, including caching, pagination, mutation consistency, refresh, offline behavior, and typed failures.

• Experience building accessible, localized interfaces that perform well across devices, screen sizes, and real-world network conditions.

• A testing approach that covers logic, asynchronous behavior, user journeys, device behavior, and production readiness.

• Experience defining useful analytics, logs, errors, metrics, and traces, then connecting them to alerts and operational playbooks.

• Experience shipping through app-store release pipelines with staged rollout, feature controls, rollback planning, and incident response.

• A record of leading ambiguous, multi-quarter technical work from problem definition through production operation.

• At Shopify, we pride ourselves on moving quickly—not just in shipping, but in our hiring process as well. If you’re ready to apply, please be prepared to interview with us within the week. Our goal is to complete the entire interview loop within 30 days. You will be expected to complete a pair programming interview, using your own IDE.

• This role may require on-call work.

• Ready to craft your next masterpiece in code? Join the team that’s making commerce better for everyone.

• About the discipline

• Engineering. It’s our DNA.

• Engineering isn't a department at Shopify. It's our DNA. The engineers who thrive here care about the code, the system, and the merchants relying on both. They want hard problems and uncomfortable growth. They find solutions without waiting for permission. They ship weekly. They want commerce to work better for everyone. So does our founder, Tobi, who still codes and still shapes where this thing is going.

• They're open source nerds. They pair program because two brains write better code than one. New tools, new models, new approaches. They experiment constantly. Most of what's standard here started as someone hacking on something.

• They use AI like a keyboard, reflexively and everywhere, to clear the mundane and make room for thinking. And they work in the open. The fastest way to learn here is to watch someone better than you do the work. If that sounds like you, come build with us.

• Infrastructure engineering

• Infrastructure Engineers at Shopify build and maintain the systems that handle millions of requests per second and billions of dollars in transactions. At that scale, performance gains matter and weak assumptions surface quickly. Your systems power the experience for millions of entrepreneurs and buyers every minute of every day, including peak events like Black Friday.

• Engineers at Shopify spend the majority of their time actually writing code to build and improve infrastructure. You’ll solve problems that don’t exist anywhere else, with challenges that push what’s possible. If that lights you up, come build with us.

• Growth and rewards

• Mastery-matched compensation.

• Explore rewards

• ~Mastery

• At Shopify, getting better at your craft and increasing your impact is how you grow. Twice a year, we assess both in our ~Mastery cycle, Shopify’s performance review. Achieving higher ~Mastery is a promotion, and when you earn a promotion your total rewards grow with it. Crafter and manager are equal paths, so you can pursue excellence in the craft you’re best at.

• Total Rewards

• With Flex Comp, your Rewards Wallet gives you agency over your compensation mix. Adjust your mix of cash, restricted share units, and stock options (including programs like Long-Term Equity) to where it makes sense for you, and mix it up anytime as life and priorities change. Buying a house? Want more skin in the game? Just experimenting? It’s your call.

• Flex Comp program offerings vary based on location, role, and employment type. Full details are set out in our Terms & Conditions and related plan documents.

• Built for real life

• Room for the rest of your life.

• Flexible work, remote by design

• A flexible vacation policy means most Shopifolk can take the vacation days they feel they need to recharge.

• If a change of everyday scenery is more your jam, Destination 90 means you can work from (almost) anywhere in the world for 90 days of the year.

• Your setup

• Your battlestation is your home base. Request the desk, chair, and AV gear you need to get shit done.

Benefits

• You need ‘em, we’ve got ‘em. Our health and welfare benefits may include health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance depending on your country. If you’re in a country without a package, you'll receive a monthly allowance. We also offer mental health support for you and your dependents, including immediate and confidential services like counseling and coaching sessions.

• Family support

• We offer fertility benefits globally, along with paid parental leave to welcome a new family member.

• Pssst. Extraordinary technical work speaks for itself.

• Skip the resume. Show us what you’ve built instead.