Meet Kirsten Westeinde, she’s a Development Manager based in San Francisco, California. She’s been working at Shopify for just over five years now and has seen the ebbs and flows of the company as it’s continued to scale dramatically over the years.

Read Time: 5 minutes In 2015, Shopify began a journey to put mobile first. The biggest undertaking was rebuilding our native Shopify Mobile app and improving the tools and technology to accomplish this. We experimented with GraphQL to build the next generation of APIs that power our mobile apps and ...

Shopify is a commerce platform that serves over 600,000+ merchants and employs over 3000 people across the globe. We’re always on the lookout for highly skilled individuals with diverse backgrounds to join our team, and that requires us to connect with them outside traditional recruitment channels. ...

Lawrence Mandel is a Director of Production Engineering leading Shopify’s Developer Acceleration team and has been at Shopify for over a year. He previously worked at IBM and Mozilla where he started as a software developer before transitioning into leadership roles. Through all his work experience,...

9 minute read Before 2015, we had an Operations and Performance team. Around this time, we decided to create the Production Engineering department and merge the teams. The department is responsible for building and maintaining common infrastructure that allows the rest of product development teams t...

Behind the Code is an initiative with the purpose of sharing the various career stories of our engineers at Shopify, to show that the path to development is non-linear and quite interesting. The features will showcase people just starting their careers, those who made career switches, and those who'...