Senior Software Engineer (Backend) – Remote

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. This particular role is also looking for an emphasis on DevOps specialization – driving advancement in CI/CD tooling and monitoring infrastructure.

What You’ll Do:

• Collaborate on the design, architecture 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
• Coordinate with Infrastructure and DevOps engineers across other product teams to keep up with industry trends and drive best practices throughout the Engineering department

Who Are You:

• 6+ years experience in Backend Software, DevOps, and/or SRE positions
• 4+ years experience with PHP (Strongly preferred), GoLang, Python, or similar programming language
• 3+ years working in Linux-based environments
• 2+ years in any CI/CD platform (required, Jenkins a bonus)
• 2+ years Docker or similar containerization technology
• 2+ years experience with MySQL or a similar technology
• Cloud Platform familiarity is a bonus (GCP specifically)
• Experience with Full-stack observability tools like New Relic is strongly preferred
• Understanding of database schema design, caching and scalability
• Understanding of basic networking principles and various communication protocols (TCP, RPC, etc)
• Strong understanding of Distributed Systems and Systems Engineering concepts
• Experience in Caching technologies is a plus (e.g. Redis or Memcached)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.
• BS or higher degree in Computer Science or related technical field

What’s in it for you?

• Master your craft under the guidance of technical experts in their field
• Work with autonomy to solve challenges and come up with creative technical solutions to meet the needs of our clients
• See your work in action as the largest companies in the world use your code to succeed in their eCommerce goals
• This position is remote, with flexible working schedule available
• Competitive pay that keeps up with the market
• Unlimited PTO in addition to Well-Being Leave, Volunteer Days, and Fixed and Floating Holidays
• Medical, dental, vision (VSP) insurance, HSA, FSA, life insurance, and more
• 401K retirement plans with company match
• Family benefits, such as parental leave, transition benefit for new parents, newborn sick leave, adoption assistance, pet insurance and more
• Internal Feedonomics skill certifications
• Virtual and in-person team events
• FeedoFUNds, a dedicated budget to foster and build relationships across the company for team events
• Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
• Generous Employee Referral bonuses

Remote First

Here at Feedonomics, we operate in a fully remote work environment where our employees are located all over the United States. 

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(Pay Transparency Range: $130,000.00 – $189,000.00)

Not all candidates will be eligible for the upper end of the salary range (or have the minimum apply to them), but rather, the exact salary will be dependent on the successful candidate’s location, relevant knowledge, skills, and qualifications.

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 .

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