Demonstrated mastery of relevance engineering with a deep understanding of search and recommendation systems powered by Elasticsearch Solr Lucene and/or other vector databases
Experience championing and delivering on complex technical projects involving a wide range of engineering teams and producing measurable impact
Effective collaboration with staff-plus level technical leaders across multiple orgs and teams: building trust influencing direction and fostering collaboration
Experience working with and influencing the open source community and/or cloud vendors
Excitement to dive into the codebase and influence by prototyping and building
Strong communication and collaboration skills
Desirables
Machine learning expertise
Natural language processing
Strategic thinking
Mentorship experience
What the job involves
Challenge orthodox approaches and drive innovation through big bets that can transform Shopify's search capabilities
Elevate Shopify's software systems to new global maxima by leveraging the latest trends and best practices in search technology
Help teams develop and implement search algorithms indexing strategies and relevance tuning through prototyping and coaching on best practices
Help Shopify realize search performance scalability and reliability at the scale of millions of merchants
Collaborate with data science and analytics teams to leverage machine learning and natural language processing techniques
Work with other technical leaders to set and drive technical aim towards a performant and extensible Shopify
Deliver a great developer experience so the rest of Shopify can leverage what we’ve built
Contribute to the engineering discipline of Shopify through community efforts craft quality or efforts to raise the bar continuing to have Shopify be an industry leader in engineering
Drive new platform investment through research development experimentation and strategic thinking
Mentor and coach craft leaders and take part in shaping culture to build a healthy and impactful team
Shopify is committed to empowering entrepreneurs and businesses of all sizes by providing reliable and innovative commerce tools and services. With a focus on enhancing the shopping experience globally, their platform supports millions of merchants in over 175 countries and aims to make commerce better for everyone.
Company benefits
Low process high trust environment
Opportunity for personal and professional hypergrowth