Senior Backend Engineer - Storefront Services (Hybrid)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Commerce is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Storefront Services Team. The role focuses on building and maintaining features powering every BigCommerce storefront, expanding GraphQL Storefront API queries, and evolving services to support AI-driven shopping.

You will investigate production issues, improve performance, and collaborate in design reviews with senior engineers to ensure robust, scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building backend services in production.
• Bachelor's degree in CS, EE, SW, CE, MIS or equivalent.
• Production experience with Scala or Kotlin; other languages welcome.
• Ability to turn requirements into technical designs with PMs.
• Knowledge of HTTP fundamentals, caching, cookies and sessions.
• Familiarity with GraphQL APIs.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain features in the service powering every BigCommerce storefront.
• Add and extend GraphQL Storefront API queries and fields.
• Help evolve storefront service to support AI-driven shopping.
• Investigate and fix production issues; improve performance and reliability.
• Review code through design reviews and pairing with senior engineers.

Skills

Backend development

Scala/Kotlin

GraphQL

CI/CD

HTTP fundamentals

Production debugging

AI coding

Education

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

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Sentry

Redis

gRPC

Job description

Commerce is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Storefront Services Team. The role focuses on building and maintaining features powering every BigCommerce storefront, expanding GraphQL Storefront API queries, and evolving services to support AI-driven shopping.

You will investigate production issues, improve performance, and collaborate in design reviews with senior engineers to ensure robust, scalable solutions.