Hybrid Technical Architect, WebPerformance Technical Architect, WebPerformance with verification

About ShopifyOpportunity 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 YouMoving 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
• Embrace differences and disagreement to get shit done and move forward
• Work digital-first for your daily work

About The RoleShopify’s mission is to make commerce better for everyone. A Technical Architect (WebPerformance) makes commerce better for everyone by making storefronts faster, bounce less and convert more.Technical Architects have an appreciation for Web Performance. They engage with merchants providing sound direction, proof of concepts, and/or advice on how to speed up stores. Working with new and existing merchants, Technical Architects provide expertise in both long term projects and shorter term engagements. Great communication skills are essential.This role offers the opportunity to work directly with merchants. A Technical Architect should take learnings from merchant engagements and take them back to the wider team. They should identify larger opportunities for performance and be thinking about the bigger picture at all times.If you are a front end developer looking to specialize in the web performance space, this is the ideal role for you.Your responsibilities:

• Support our global merchant base by speeding up their stores as part of paid engagements
• Provide merchants with best practice advice and direction based on your expertise
• Scale learnings from engagements to make Shopify better for all merchants
• Manage stakeholder expectations throughout engagements
• Engage with both technical and non-technical merchant stakeholders

Technical experience

• Front end development including HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Understanding how a browser works
• Involvement in at least one front end performance project
• Experience in performance debugging using DevTools, WebPageTest, RUM solutions
• Comfortable navigating and using GitHub
• Should enjoy investigating and solving complex performance issues
• REACT/Remix experience is an advantage but not necessary
• Experience with Liquid or Shopify storefronts is a bonus