After Shopify
- 18%Joined a startup17
- 22%Joined a big company20
- 60%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Shopify most often go to Flexport, Meta and Microsoft. 18% go small. Median stay 1y 3m
These are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer, not Shopify's headcount: 113 people on a map of 26,572, the No. 84 company on it by people. Updated August 20, 2026.
- People on the map
- 1130.4% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 2018% of the people here
- Moved on
- 9382% of the people here
- Median tenure
- 1y 3mmiddle half 9m to 2y 2m
Put Shopify side by side with another company, every number against every number.
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most arrive from Deliverr Inc.. Most leave for Flexport (6% of recorded departures).
8 of 108 recorded arrivals shown, 100 more from 93 other companies15 of 95 recorded departures shown, 80 more to 69 other companies
How long people stay
41%<1y
29%1-2y
19%2-4y
10%4-7y
1%7y+
80 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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0013
1014
0015
8616
81017
8718
8619
16920
281221
242222
22023
8524
8225
1126
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 120 joined, 100 left.
Caliber
82mediantop 10%89
0Eng Scorer caliber, 113 scored99
Titles held here
- Software Engineer18
- Software Engineer Intern12
- Senior Software Engineer11
- Backend Developer Intern7
- Software Development Intern5
- Staff Software Engineer5
- Backend Developer4
- Software Developer4
8 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 6% of people here.
Behind the median
Everyone here with an Eng Scorer read, placed in their caliber tier.
- 18%Exceptional or strong20 people
- 42%Solid48 people
- 35%Emerging39 people
- 5%Unproven6 people
113 of the 113 people here carry an Eng Scorer tier.
Exceptional and strong are the top two of the five tiers. 20 of the 113 people here with a read sit in them, 18%. A tier is the band an Eng Scorer caliber score falls in, so this is the same measurement as the median on the caliber card, opened up. A tier holding fewer than 3 people is printed together with the one next to it, because a bucket that small is a person rather than a pattern.
Whether a title rose here
The level of the first title recorded here, against the last.
29%Titles that rose27 of 92 classified people
- 29%Rose27 people
- 65%Stayed level60 people
- 5%Fell5 people
92 of the 113 people here had a title that could be placed on the ladder before and after.
A title rose when the last title recorded here sits higher on the ladder than the first; for someone who recorded one title here and then left, it is measured against the first title of their next role. The ladder runs intern, junior, mid, senior, staff or manager, principal, director, VP, then founder or C-level. A title that matches no rung is left out rather than guessed, and product, program and project managers are left out entirely, being a different ladder. That leaves 92 of the 113 people here classified, and it leans towards people who have left: someone still here on a single recorded title has nothing to be measured against.
Where they studied
- University of Waterloo27.7%
- Stanford4.5%
- University of Toronto4.5%
- Carleton University3.6%
- Carnegie Mellon3.6%
- Dartmouth2.7%
- National University of Singapore2.7%
- Princeton2.7%
The 8 most listed schools among the 112 people here with a school on file.
Of the 112 people here with a school on file, 31 list University of Waterloo, 5 list Stanford and 5 list University of Toronto. A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
42%have a public GitHub account on their profile
47 of the 113 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts. An account the check did not find reads the same as no account, so this is a floor rather than a census.
Across the 325 companies on the map that can show this figure, the median is 38%.
Where they are now
48% of the people who have worked at Shopify and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map.
Shopify
Everyone on the map
- 48%SF Bay Area54 · map 47%
- 41%New York46 · map 33%
- 4%Los Angeles4 · map 6%
- 4%Washington DC4 · map 7%
- 4%Somewhere else5
All 113 people who worked at Shopify list a location, and every share here is over them.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while they worked at Shopify: a metro here does not mean the company has an office in it. The lower strip is the same metros across the whole map, for comparison.
On the same resumes
Companies that show up most often alongside Shopify, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 113 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Shopify: 20 are there now and 93 have moved on.
- The most common next employer after Shopify is Flexport (6 people, 6% of recorded departures), followed by Meta and Microsoft.
- The most common previous employer before Shopify is Deliverr Inc. (8 people).
- The median tenure at Shopify is 1y 3m (middle half 9m to 2y 2m).
- Of those who moved on from Shopify, fewer than 3 went on to a founder title, 18% joined a company with 200 or fewer people, and 22% joined a company with 10,000 or more.
- The median Eng Scorer caliber of people who have worked at Shopify is 82 on the 0 to 99 scale (113 scored).
- The most common title held at Shopify is Software Engineer, then Software Engineer Intern.
- Of the 112 people here with a school on file, 31 list University of Waterloo (27.7%), then Stanford (5). A person can list more than one school, so these overlap rather than add up.
- 48% of the 113 people here who list a location live in SF Bay Area today, against 47% of everyone on the map. That is where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 42% of the 113 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub account on it.
- Of the 92 people here whose title could be placed on a ladder both before and after, 27 rose, 60 stayed level and 5 fell.
About this data: built from 144,786 jobs across 26,572 engineers in the Zelcast network and Eng Scorer reads, updated August 20, 2026. A move counts when the next role starts within 24 months of leaving; companies with fewer than 20 people on the map are not shown, and destinations with fewer than 3 people are folded into the totals. Caliber is the Eng Scorer score.
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