# How Shopify Scales Up Its Development Teams

DevFeed: [How Shopify Scales Up Its Development Teams](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-shopify-scales-up-its-development-teams-1419.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shopify.engineering/how-shopify-scales-up-its-development-teams>)

Author: Larry Lumsden

Published: 2019-09-26T18:30:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering.md>), [Shopify Engineering - Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering-shopify-engineering.md>)

Topics: [Shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shopify.md>), [Software Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software-engineering.md>), [code productivity](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code-productivity.md>), [developer tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/developer-tooling.md>), [User experience (UX)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ux.md>)

Tags: [article](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/article.md>), [culture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/culture.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [productivity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/productivity.md>), [scale](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scale.md>), [shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shopify.md>), [ux](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ux.md>), [web](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web.md>)

## AI overview

Shopify describes lessons from scaling its development organization. The article emphasizes first ensuring that an existing team operates effectively, then building small, multidisciplinary teams around clear product goals, supported by thoughtful hiring and close collaboration with talent acquisition.

## Source excerpt

Have you clicked on this article because you're interested in how Shopify scales its development teams and the lessons we're learning along the way? Well, cool, you've come to the right place. But first, a question. Are you sure you need to scale your team?