Senior Backend Engineer — Storefront Services (AI-driven)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Commerce is building the next generation of its AI-driven commerce platform. You will work on the storefront service that powers every BigCommerce storefront, collaborating with product managers and partner teams to shape requirements and deliver robust solutions.

We emphasize async collaboration and ownership, enabling engineers to ship changes to production with confidence. A hybrid work model applies for eligible regions, with in-office days to align with teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/EE/SW/CE/MIS or equivalent experience.
• Experience building production backend services.
• Production experience with Scala or Kotlin preferred; other JVM/Go/Java are welcome.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain features for 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.
• Investigate production issues and improve performance and reliability.
• Review code and pair with senior engineers to grow design skills.

Skills

Backend development

Scala

Kotlin

GraphQL

HTTP & caching

CI/CD

Testing

AI coding tools

Distributed systems

Code reviews

Education

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

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Sentry

Redis

gRPC

Job description

Commerce is building the next generation of its AI-driven commerce platform. You will work on the storefront service that powers every BigCommerce storefront, collaborating with product managers and partner teams to shape requirements and deliver robust solutions.

We emphasize async collaboration and ownership, enabling engineers to ship changes to production with confidence. A hybrid work model applies for eligible regions, with in-office days to align with teams.