Backend Data & API Engineer II

BigCommerce Pty.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Commerce seeks a backend-oriented Software Engineer II to design and implement reliable backend services and APIs that power our product workflows. You will work with data models, SQL, and event-driven flows to enable features across data platforms and integrations.

You will collaborate with product, design, infrastructure, and other engineering teams while maintaining code quality through tests, reviews, and observability.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of back-end focused software engineering experience.
• Strong SQL and data modeling fundamentals.
• Experience building APIs, services, and integrations.
• Experience with distributed systems, event-driven flows, caching, retries.
• Ability to work across layers including UI when needed, but backend is core.

Responsibilities

• Design and build reliable backend services and APIs that power product workflows.
• Work with data models, SQL, and event-driven flows to support product features.
• Work with UI surfaces when needed to deliver end-to-end solutions, without owning frontend architecture.
• Break down well-scoped problems into concrete technical plans with senior engineers.
• Contribute to production health via monitoring, logging, and runbooks.

Skills

Java

Scala

Kotlin

Go

SQL

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE/SW/CE/MIS or equivalent

Job description

Commerce seeks a backend-oriented Software Engineer II to design and implement reliable backend services and APIs that power our product workflows. You will work with data models, SQL, and event-driven flows to enable features across data platforms and integrations.

You will collaborate with product, design, infrastructure, and other engineering teams while maintaining code quality through tests, reviews, and observability.