Shopify

Senior Solutions Engineer

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3 months ago
Remote, APACSenior

Responsibilities

  • Run discovery with merchants and partners to understand workflows, systems, constraints, risks, and success metrics.
  • Design solution architectures across Shopify’s commerce stack and adjacent ERP, OMS, payments, and integration systems, including legacy migrations.
  • Create tailored demos, prototypes, diagrams, workshops, and technical narratives tied to merchant outcomes.
  • Partner with Account Executives, Solution Partners, Product, Launch, and CSM teams on opportunity strategy, blockers, and field feedback.
  • Use AI for merchant research, transcript synthesis, demo planning, technical validation, and reusable team workflows.
  • Apply judgment when determining technical depth, simplifying complexity, involving specialists, and challenging assumptions.

Requirements

  • Relevant experience in solutions engineering, sales engineering, technical consulting, solutions architecture, or commerce technology implementation.
  • Technical fluency in APIs, integrations, data flows, authentication, webhooks, and modern SaaS architecture.
  • Ability to discover complex business needs and translate them into clear technical requirements and scalable solutions.
  • Commercial awareness connecting technical recommendations to revenue growth, operational efficiency, customer experience, and risk reduction.
  • Strong written and verbal communication for executive, technical, partner, and stakeholder audiences.
  • Ability to influence stakeholders, build trust and champions, and navigate tension across technical and executive groups.
  • Comfort with ambiguity, self-directed learning, distributed teamwork, and practical use of AI tools.
  • Based in Australia with ability to travel for customer meetings, partner engagements, and team events.
  • Preferred experience with Shopify, commerce platforms, POS, B2B, retail operations, integration-heavy environments, or ANZ enterprise and mid-market sales cycles.
  • Preferred familiarity with JavaScript, Liquid, React, GraphQL, REST APIs, SQL, and AI-assisted tools such as Claude, Cursor, Gemini, or NotebookLM.
  • Preferred track record of creating reusable assets, enablement, or internal systems.

Benefits

  • Based in Australia and supporting the APAC region, including Australia and New Zealand.
  • Travel is required for customer meetings, partner engagements, and team events.
  • The team operates with a high degree of self-sufficiency in a regionally distributed environment.

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Solutions Engineering
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About Shopify

10,000+ employees

Shopify is a leading global commerce company, providing trusted tools to start, grow, market, and manage a retail business of any size. Shopify makes commerce better for everyone with a platform and services that are engineered for reliability, while delivering a better shopping experience for consumers everywhere. Shopify powers millions of businesses in more than 175 countries and is trusted by brands such as Allbirds, Gymshark, PepsiCo, Staples, and many more. Find all our jobs here: www.shopify.com/careers

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