BigCommerce
BigCommerce’s mission is to help merchants sell more at every stage of growth, from small startups, to mid-market businesses to large enterprises. We focus on being the best ecommerce platform so our customers can focus on what matters most: growing their businesses.
We are equally passionate about growing our employee’s careers and providing them an incredible experience as we rapidly expand across the globe. We are proud to have been recognized numerous times for our product and workplace culture. We empower our people and customers to build, innovate and grow, so together we can redefine the ecommerce industry.
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 to support every stage of their growth.
Ever wonder how products appear on Amazon or how Google knows what’s in stock nearby? That’s Feedonomics behind the scenes.
As a BigCommerce brand, Feedonomics is a leading product feed management platform that helps brands, retailers, and agencies list and optimize products across top ecommerce channels worldwide. We manage everything from onboarding to ongoing feed optimization, enabling our clients to scale faster with less effort.
Since 2014, Feedonomics has earned a strong reputation for our full-service model, people-first culture, and powerful technology—all rooted in a commitment to excellence.
We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Senior Software Engineer - Backend to join the fully remote Engineering team at Feedonomics. You will be working with a highly collaborative and cross-functional Backend Engineering team to deliver and scale core infrastructure components and services that power our robust, high-performance, data-intensive SaaS platform.
What You’ll Do:
- Collaborate on the architecture, design, and development of scalable and highly available applications and services
- Solve complex infrastructure-related problems with code, developing and providing post-release support for scalable applications
- Identify and implement enhancements to DevOps practices and tooling, leveraging automation to enhance robustness of the CI/CD pipeline, thereby streamlining efficient application development and deployment
- Drive technology design and articulate architecture solution options to the product owners and Engineering leadership
- Conduct post-mortems to analyze and prevent repeat failures
- Be a champion for Continuous Improvement in end-to-end infrastructure and systems.
- Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies and processes that solve concrete business problems
- Become a domain expert who follows industry trends and applies best practices and contributes towards continuous improvement of those practices
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at BigCommerce
Our employees make the difference. At BigCommerce, 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 BigCommerce, please let us know during any of your interactions with our recruiting team.
Learn more about the BigCommerce team, culture and benefits at https://careers.bigcommerce.com.
Who Are You:
- 5+ years of programming experience in backend languages
- BS or higher degree in Computer Science or related technical field
- 2+ years experience with PHP (Strongly preferred), Python, GoLang, Java or a similar programming language
- 2+ years experience with MySQL or a similar technology
- Strong understanding of database schema design, caching and scalability
- Strong understanding of various communication protocols (TCP, RPC, etc)
- Strong understanding of Distributed Systems
- Experience in Caching technologies is a plus (e.g. Redis or Memcached)
- DevOps experience preferred
- Experience with Full-stack observability tools like New Relic is strongly preferred
- Workable understanding of Linux operating systems Experience with modern CI/CD and containerization tools like Docker
- Ability to perform time and memory complexity analysis
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
