Backend Engineer, Storefront Services & AI-Driven Commerce

Commerce.com US, Inc.; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 112,000 - 168,000; Full time

Job summary

Commerce is seeking a backend engineer to build and maintain services powering BigCommerce storefronts. You will extend GraphQL Storefront API and help evolve the storefront service to support AI-driven shopping experiences, cart building, and checkout for shoppers.

You will work with product managers, teams across the Commerce family, and participate in design reviews while improving production systems with a focus on performance and reliability.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience building backend services in production.
• Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Production experience with Scala or Kotlin preferred; other languages welcome.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain features in the storefront service powering BigCommerce storefronts.
• Extend GraphQL Storefront API queries and fields with backward compatibility.
• Help evolve storefront service to support AI-driven shopping and checkout flows.
• Investigate production issues and improve performance and reliability.
• Review code and participate in design reviews with senior engineers.

Skills

Backend development

Scala

Kotlin

GraphQL

HTTP fundamentals

Caching & service-to-service

CI/CD

Automated testing

AI coding assistants

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS, EE, SW, CE, MIS; or equivalent experience

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Sentry

gRPC

Redis

Job description

Commerce is seeking a backend engineer to build and maintain services powering BigCommerce storefronts. You will extend GraphQL Storefront API and help evolve the storefront service to support AI-driven shopping experiences, cart building, and checkout for shoppers.

You will work with product managers, teams across the Commerce family, and participate in design reviews while improving production systems with a focus on performance and reliability.