Software Engineer II - Ruby

BigCommerce • Austin, TX

7h • $93,000 - $156,000 • 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, recognized as a "Best Place to Work" in 2026, is seeking a talented Software Engineer II to join our innovative Identity & Access Management (IAM) Team! This is your chance to dive into the dynamic and rapidly expanding e-commerce industry, shaping the future of online business. This full-time position offers the flexibility of being fully remote within the United States. 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

• Education: Preferred Minimum Bachelor's degree in CS, EE, SW, CE, MIS; or equivalent experience or completed either a comprehensive software engineering boot camp.
• Solid Experience & Autonomy: You bring 2+ years of software development experience, and while you're growing in your ability to work independently, you'll receive guidance and support as you develop full autonomy.
• Technical Proficiency: Experience and growing proficiency in Ruby are key to this role. We're also excited if you have familiarity with, or an interest in exploring, TypeScript/React, Scala or Go.
• Development Lifecycle Understanding: You're familiar with continuous integration principles and have experience contributing to various aspects of the development cycle, from initial design through to implementation and ongoing support.
• Scalable Systems Knowledge: You have a foundational understanding of, or a strong interest in developing, high-performance, scalable, and resilient web services and applications. We value your eagerness to learn and grow in this area.
• A Collaborative Spirit: You are a true team player, comfortable working within an Agile/Scrum environment and with diverse stakeholders, team leads, and other groups to foster clear communication and achieve shared goals.
• Problem-Solving Passion: You genuinely enjoy diving into challenging problems and appreciate working within a fun, supportive, and collaborative team setting.
• Thoughtful & Communicative: You are proactive and results-driven, with developing critical thinking abilities and good communication skills that allow you to share ideas clearly.
• Curiosity and Growth Mindset: You are excited by the opportunity to learn new technologies and approaches.

Nice To Haves

• Helpful Background (Preferred): Previous exposure to or interest in Identity and Access Management is a plus and will help you integrate with the team.

Responsibilities

• Craft High-Quality Solutions: You'll develop reliable, efficient, and maintainable code, contributing to the foundation of our services and focusing on creating positive experiences for our users.
• Contribute to Technical Initiatives & Solve Engaging Challenges: You'll actively contribute to technical tasks and feature development, such as improving system performance and query efficiency, with a focus on security and best practices.
• Support Our Architecture & System Evolution: You'll work with operations, infrastructure, and senior engineering teams to help evolve our systems, contributing to the design and scalability of our back-end services and understanding the technical direction of key product components.
• Engage in Technical Excellence & Understand Strategy: You'll actively participate in technical discussions, helping to explore and understand solutions, architectural approaches, and technical strategies that align with product and business goals.
• Foster a Culture of Quality: You'll uphold and contribute to software quality and security practices. This includes participating in thoughtful code reviews, asking questions, testing, and sharing your knowledge to help elevate team standards and our codebase.
• Collaborate and Grow: You'll work closely with fellow engineers, offering support and sharing knowledge to enhance collective team skills and project success.

Benefits

• Pay transparency range $93,000-$156,000
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level