Senior Creative Engineer (Americas)

About The Role

The mission of the Core Creative team is to make sure entrepreneurs love and default to Shopify. Our team consists of smart, committed marketers, creatives, and developers, all of whom focus on designing experiences that enable more people to learn, love, and default to Shopify.We’re a passionate, creative team that thrives on experimenting with new technologies and creating unique human-centered experiences.

As a senior creative developer you should be fluent in front-end web technologies such as React and Remix, you’re challenging yourself with CSS animations and playing with WebGL and shaders. You should enjoy experimenting with new technology and approaches to positively impact our customers.

You are experienced with scaling and developing features, and can comfortably communicate complex technical concepts across the organization.

A can-do attitude is vital, as you should be able to swiftly identify risks or potential roadblocks and strategize solutions. You strive for accessibility and performance across all points of the technology stack, and enthusiastically engage with review teams to ensure systems are meeting the latest standards. Your data-informed designs and proven impact measurement skills will make you stand out among applicants. You’re comfortable owning features from conception to maintenance, and can troubleshoot production issues on-call.

Before applying, consider if you:

• Are passionate about front-end user experiences, from using & maintaining a Design System library to creating brand new interactive web experiences
• Love to experiment with web technologies in a creative way
• Strive for best-in-class performance and accessibility
• Collaborate effortlessly with creatives, product managers and external partners to create captivating experiences, but you’re also autonomous
• Maintain a high bar for quality and attention to detail
• Embrace differences and work through problems with your team to move forward
• Pride yourself on resilience and thrive (rather than merely endure) change
  
  
  

Qualifications

• Experience with building performant and accessible Remix (React) applications from the ground-up
• Strong experience in creative development, including: WebGL (three JS/R3F, custom shaders…), canvas 2d, animation libraries… You’re obsessed with performance and optimization
• Ability to prototype, executing and pushing on a creative vision
• Strong understanding of web technologies including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with different disciplines
• A passion for learning and staying up-to-date with latest web tech
• Ability to think creatively and experiment with new and experimental approaches
• A required portfolio demonstrating creative coding and development projects
• Performance, creativity and accessibility are the main keywords defining your work
• See the bigger picture, leave personal beliefs outside the room, thrive on change rather than endure it, and care deeply about continuously developing your craft.
• Own problems, decide on implementation code for their own work, and reliably resolve blockers to assist in service ownership of any production code or service.
• Work independently on well-defined problems prioritized by manager and peers, identify problems and opportunities independently, and make significant contributions.
• Familiarity with Shopify products is a plus
  
  
  

This role may require on-call work

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
• Use AI tools reflexively as part of your fundamental workflow
• Embrace differences and disagreement to get shit done and move forward
• Work digital-first for your daily work