Senior Backend Engineer - AI-Driven Storefront APIs (Remote)

Bigcommerce; United States; Remote; USD 116,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Bigcommerce is seeking a backend engineer to develop and operate backend features for a service used across online storefronts. You will work with product and engineering partners to shape requirements, design changes, and carry them through release.

The role includes extending APIs for headless storefronts and helping support shopping experiences powered by AI agents. This remote-first position emphasizes production-grade reliability and cross-team collaboration.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production backend experience.
• Scala or Kotlin preferred; Java/Go ok with willingness to learn.
• Translate stakeholder needs into technical designs.
• Knowledge of HTTP concepts, caching, cookies, sessions, timeouts.
• Familiarity with service-to-service communication and caching.
• Experience with automated tests, CI/CD, and safe releases incl. feature flags.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend service features with product teams.
• Extend GraphQL Storefront API queries and fields.
• Improve AI-assisted shopping through agent-driven actions.
• Investigate production issues and improve reliability.
• Review code and grow design skills via pairing.

Skills

Backend development

Scala / Kotlin

Java / Go experience

API design

GraphQL

CI/CD

Automated testing

AI-assisted shopping

Tools

GraphQL APIs

CI/CD tooling

Observability

Job description

Bigcommerce is seeking a backend engineer to develop and operate backend features for a service used across online storefronts. You will work with product and engineering partners to shape requirements, design changes, and carry them through release.

The role includes extending APIs for headless storefronts and helping support shopping experiences powered by AI agents. This remote-first position emphasizes production-grade reliability and cross-team collaboration.