Senior Backend Engineer – Storefront AI Services

BigCommerce Pty.; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 116,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

BigCommerce Pty. in Atlanta/US hybrid environment is seeking a senior backend engineer to build and maintain features for the Storefront service powering every BigCommerce storefront. You will expand GraphQL queries, enable AI-driven shopping workflows, and improve performance across production systems.

You will collaborate with product managers, review code, and participate in design reviews while supporting scalable, reliable services for diverse customers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building backend services in production.
• Bachelor's degree in CS, EE, SW, CE, MIS or equivalent experience.
• Production experience with Scala or Kotlin preferred; other languages welcomed.
• Experience with GraphQL APIs and service-to-service communication.
• Familiarity with caching and data integration (Redis, gRPC).
• Experience debugging production issues using metrics, traces, and logs.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and feature flag releases.
• Ability to work with product managers to translate requirements into design.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain features in the storefront service powering BigCommerce storefronts.
• Extend GraphQL Storefront API queries and fields with backward compatibility.
• Evolve storefront service to support AI-driven shopping experiences.
• Investigate and fix production issues; improve performance and reliability.
• Review code and pair with engineers to grow design skills.

Skills

Backend development

Scala/Kotlin

GraphQL

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Observability

AI coding assistants

Cloud services

gRPC/Redis

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

GraphQL

Redis

gRPC

Grafana

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Sentry

CI/CD tools

Job description

BigCommerce Pty. in Atlanta/US hybrid environment is seeking a senior backend engineer to build and maintain features for the Storefront service powering every BigCommerce storefront. You will expand GraphQL queries, enable AI-driven shopping workflows, and improve performance across production systems.

You will collaborate with product managers, review code, and participate in design reviews while supporting scalable, reliable services for diverse customers.