Senior Software Engineer - Scala

BigCommerce•Austin, TX

1d•Remote

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. Commerce 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. Commerce offers a dynamic, collaborative environment, helping you expand your skills and take ideas from inception to delivery. BigCommerce, part of the Commerce brand family, helps merchants increase sales at every stage of their growth. From small startups to mid-market businesses and large enterprises, we provide the leading e-commerce platform. Our customers can then concentrate on what's most important: growing their businesses. We enable our customers to build, innovate, and grow, collectively reshaping the e-commerce industry.

Requirements

5+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer
Experience developing in Scala, with experience with PHP and/or gRPC as a bonus
Extensive experience with principles of continuous integration and designing, implementing and taking ownership of various tasks across the development cycle
Experienced in developing high throughput, high-performance, evolving/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 on an Agile team as a contributor and mentor
Highly proactive and results-oriented with excellent critical thinking and communications skills.
Fluency in English
Comfortable exploring and engaging in new/unfamiliar languages, tools, and technologies
BS degree required or higher degree in Computer Science or related technical field

Nice To Haves

Experience with eCommerce and SaaS platforms is highly preferred

Responsibilities

Maintain and improve services that power the Commerce’s Storefront Environment
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
Support bug fixes and implement enhancements to applications in Production
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
Work and collaborate with a team distributed between US and EU timezones
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
Produce technical documentation of workflows related to the Storefront