Backend Rails Engineer, Payments Platform

Commerce; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Commerce is seeking a Software Engineer to design, implement, and maintain Ruby on Rails features for the payments offering on BigCommerce. You will ensure production-grade quality, instrument the code, and troubleshoot live traffic issues while collaborating with product and design teams to deliver scalable checkout experiences.

The role emphasizes high performance, security, and reliable services, with opportunities to mentor others and contribute to architectural decisions across the platform.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of backend development experience with a strong focus on Ruby on Rails.
• Experience building production-grade systems with logs, traces, metrics, and feature flags.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain features in a Ruby on Rails service for the payments offering on BigCommerce.
• Ensure production-grade functionality with tests, instrumentation, and documentation.
• Troubleshoot production issues and contribute to post-incident reviews to improve reliability.
• Mentor other engineers in the domain and review code for quality and security.
• Collaborate with product and design teams to define feature specifications and timelines.
• Build scalable, secure, and maintainable backend services.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

Domain Driven Design

CI/CD

High performance services

Debug live traffic

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Bootcamp or equivalent experience

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Sentry

Lightstep

Third-party API integrations

PHP

Scala

Job description

Commerce is seeking a Software Engineer to design, implement, and maintain Ruby on Rails features for the payments offering on BigCommerce. You will ensure production-grade quality, instrument the code, and troubleshoot live traffic issues while collaborating with product and design teams to deliver scalable checkout experiences.

The role emphasizes high performance, security, and reliable services, with opportunities to mentor others and contribute to architectural decisions across the platform.