Company profile
Shopify
Shopify powers more than a million merchants worldwide, with Shop Pay, Shopify Payments, and a thriving app and theme ecosystem on top of the core commerce platform. Interviews are fully remote and unusually direct - a Life Story call, a craft round, a pair-programming round, and a technical leadership interview built around real shipped work.
The Shopify interview process
Shopify runs a fully remote, unusually direct loop. It opens with a Life Story conversation, then moves through a craft round, a pair-programming round, and a technical leadership interview built around work you have actually shipped. The Life Story round is real and used to understand how you think and grow.
- 1
Life Story
Your career arc, decisions, and how you learn.
- 2
Craft
Depth in your discipline, grounded in real examples.
- 3
Pair programming
Collaborating on a problem in real time.
- 4
Technical leadership
Judgment and impact on shipped work.
What Shopify is looking for
What they value
- Real shipped impact over rehearsed answers
- Collaborative problem solving in the pairing round
- A reflective, honest Life Story
Culture signals in the loop
- Merchant obsession and entrepreneurial drive
- Thriving in a fully remote, high-trust setup
- Resilience and a growth orientation
Questions and process by role
Shopify hires across several engineering and product functions, and the loop shifts with each one. Open a role for the reported questions, the round-by-round focus, and a salary band for that function.
- Backend engineer
Backend engineer interview questions and process at Shopify.
engineering - Database engineer
Database engineer interview questions and process at Shopify.
engineering - Developer relations engineer
Developer relations engineer interview questions and process at Shopify.
engineering - Elixir engineer
Elixir engineer interview questions and process at Shopify.
engineering - Embedded engineer
Embedded engineer interview questions and process at Shopify.
engineering - Engineering manager
Engineering manager interview questions and process at Shopify.
engineering - Forward-deployed engineer
Forward-deployed engineer interview questions and process at Shopify.
engineering - Founding engineer
Founding engineer interview questions and process at Shopify.
engineering
Salary signal
Approximate senior median pay for Shopify's core roles, anchored to San Francisco and modeled from BLS, ONS, and Levels.fyi reference medians. These are market bands for the role and city, not Shopify offers. Open a role for the full city-by-city table.
Employee reviews
Shopify holds a 3.8 Glassdoor rating. External review scores are directional signals. Treat them as context alongside the specific team, location, level, and hiring manager you are interviewing with.
Glassdoor 3.8