Lead Software Engineer

Commerce•Austin, TX

13d

About The Position

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. Lead Software Engineer Engineering 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.

Requirements

7+ 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

Nice To Haves

Experience with eCommerce and SaaS platforms is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

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