Thread by @jmwind

Congrats to the entrepreneurs who survived and thrived. @ShopifyEng was here for you. A year of BFCM traffic every day with a $5.1B ending.

So much more to build... I’ve decided to double our eng team in 2021 by hiring 2,021 new technical roles. 🙌🏼

shopify.com/careers/2021 1/

https://twitter.com/jmwind/status/1250816681024331777

We’ve hesitated to grow too quickly, we’ve moved fast and scaled with a relatively small team. @ShopifyEng has definitely been lean and mean. But from web stores to warehouses, banking, logistics, shop, fulfillment network we are ready to double down and scale bigger. 2/

If you’ve read our engineering blog, you know that we are building the planetary commerce platform for entrepreneurs to start and scale their businesses. Our traffic is doubling every year and we’re redefining the primitives of commerce. 3/

Shopify isn’t going back to work in offices. We’re going to try hard to be the best digital by default company on the planet. This might not be for everyone. That’s fine. We are building teams around time zones not cities. 4/

We’re looking for many technical roles: data scientists to experts in inventory and logistics. But more importantly, we’re looking for people who don’t just want to build software, but want to build an understanding of a problem and opportunities and express those in software. 5/

If you want to work on hard internet scale commerce challenges, let’s talk. shopify.com/careers/2021

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