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Senior Software Engineer

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Hiring Remotely in United States
Senior level
Remote
Hiring Remotely in United States
Senior level
Develop robust, efficient code and work on optimizing performance and scaling back-end services. Collaborate with product teams, mentor junior engineers, and participate in code reviews.
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Welcome to the Agentic Commerce Era

At Commerce, our mission is to empower businesses to innovate, grow, and thrive with our open, AI-driven commerce ecosystem. As the parent company of BigCommerce, Feedonomics, and Makeswift, we connect the tools and systems that power growth, enabling businesses to unlock the full potential of their data, deliver seamless and personalized experiences across every channel, and adapt swiftly to an ever-changing market. Simply said, we help businesses confidently solve complex commerce challenges so they can build smarter, adapt faster, and grow on their own terms. If you want to be part of a team of bold builders, sharp thinkers, and technical trailblazers, working together to shape the future of commerce, this is the place for you.

Senior Software EngineerEngineering

BigCommerce is disrupting the e-commerce industry as the SaaS leader for fast-growing, mid-market businesses. We enable our customers to build intuitive and engaging stores at a fraction of the cost to support every stage of their growth.

BigCommerce offers a dynamic, collaborative environment, helping you expand your skills and take ideas from inception to delivery.

What You’ll Do:
  • Produce bullet-proof code that is robust, efficient, and maintainable.

  • Work on challenging problems such as query optimization and performance optimization while adhering to security protocols

  • Work closely with operations and infrastructure to improve the architecture while building and scaling back-end services.

  • Engage in technical discussion of new solutions and architectures

  • Participate in code reviews to maintain and improve quality

  • Mentor other engineers in the current domain

  • Build beautiful, scalable products using modern tools

  • Collaborate with our product and design teams to define feature specifications and timelines

  • Build new features with a focus on testability and extensibility

  • Engage in technical discussion of new solutions and architectures

  • Review other engineer’s code to maintain and improve quality and security

  • Support an open, positive, and energized culture

  • Encourage innovation and foster an environment of continuous improvement

  • Ensure that technical decisions support our goals of quality, performance, scalability, reliability, availability, and security

Who You Are:
  • 5+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer
  • Extensive experience with principles of continuous integration and designing, implementing and taking ownership of various tasks across the development cycle

  • Experienced in developing high-performance, scalable and available web services, and applications

  • A team player who works closely with stakeholders, pod leaders, and other teams to promote communication and collaboration

  • Enjoy working on solving challenging problems in a fun, collaborative environment.

  • Highly proactive and results-oriented with excellent critical thinking and communications skills.

  • Excited to learn about new technologies

  • Experience with eCommerce and SaaS platforms is highly preferred.


Diversity & Inclusion at BigCommerce

We can build not only a great business but a great company with soul. Our beliefs and commitment to diversity and inclusion are central to achieving that.

Our dedication to diversity and inclusion is grounded in two things: a moral belief in the dignity, value, and potential of every individual and a practical belief that diverse, inclusive teams will create the best outcomes for our customers, partners, employees, and company. We welcome everyone to be a part of our journey.

The exact salary will be dependent on the successful candidate’s location, relevant knowledge, skills, and qualifications.

Inclusion and Belonging

At Commerce, we believe that celebrating the unique histories, perspectives and abilities of every employee makes a difference for our company, our customers and our community. We are an equal opportunity employer and the inclusive atmosphere we build together will make room for every person to contribute, grow and thrive.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the interview process, to perform essential job functions and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you need an accommodation in order to interview at Commerce, please let us know during any of your interactions with our recruiting team.

Learn more about the Commerce team, culture and benefits at https://www.commerce.com/careers/

Protect Yourself Against Hiring Scams: Our Corporate Disclaimer 

Commerce, along with many other employers, has become the subject of fraudulent job offers to hopeful prospective job seekers.
Be advised:
Commerce does not offer jobs to individuals who do not go through our formal hiring process.
Commerce will never:

  • require payment of recruitment fees from candidates;

  • request personally identifiable information through unsanctioned websites or applications;

  • attempt to solicit money from you as part of the hiring process or as part of an employment offer;

  • solicit money to complete visa requirements as part of a job offer.

If you receive unsolicited offers of employment from Commerce, we urge you to be extremely cautious and avoid engaging or responding.

Top Skills

Ecommerce
Performance Optimization
Query Optimization
SaaS
Web Services

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