Good for your CV, but expect burnout and low pay - Software Engineer Shopify Employee Review

1.0
11 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good to have on your CV

Cons

You’ll burn out eventually the pay is not that competitive for what is asked from you

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5.0
10 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Remote first culture. If you want freedom of location and a company to truly mean and support it - this is the place.

Cons

Constant change. Nothing to hold on to in this role, compensation, KPI's, tools all change every quarter.

2.0
9 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Legacy Shopify ICs and lower-level managers are excellent and generally quite nice (company's Canadian after all) Caliber of engineering talent is generally high Dev-friendly stack (Ruby/Rails) Bleeding-edge AI adoption with unlimited token budget

Cons

Recently brought over a CTO from Microsoft: he brought with him a lot of not-at-all-nice people who are highly political, frequently rude/condescending to legacy Shopifolk, and make consistently bad/dev-hostile technical decisions Bleeding-edge AI adoption is being used to justify unreasonably increased expectations

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