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Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Shopify

toronto, on, Canada Full-time June 04, 2026

Found Description

About the Role As a Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience at Shopify, you will be instrumental in shaping the developer surface for Shop Builder. This role involves a blend of technical leadership, team mentorship, and hands‑on implementation, ensuring the delivery of high‑quality tools and environments for developers.

Responsibilities

Drive the delivery of the

Shop Builder developer surface , including the MCP server, CLI and local dev environment, public SDK, documentation pipeline, sandbox and preview environments, and the deploy and versioning path.

Lead and mentor a team of three engineers, setting technical direction, running code reviews, and ensuring consistent engineering quality.

Own cross-team coordination, identifying and pulling inbound API capabilities from payments, auth, live ops, and catalog teams, unblocking dependencies, and managing integration timelines.

Actively contribute to implementation, shipping pr...

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