Senior Software Engineer - AI-Driven Commerce Platform (Hybrid)

BigCommerce Pty; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 115,566 - 195,443; Full time

Job summary

Commerce is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Austin, TX to design and build reliable services, APIs, and product-facing workflows. You will work across backend systems, UI surfaces, event processing, and third-party integrations.

You should have 5+ years of software engineering experience, strong backend skills in Java, Scala, Kotlin, or Go, and a track record of stabilizing production systems with testing, monitoring, and runbooks.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience across backend and full-stack responsibilities.
• Experience owning ambiguous technical work and multi-layer systems.
• Proficient in Java, Scala, Kotlin, or Go with SQL and data-driven decisions.

Responsibilities

• Design and build reliable services, APIs, and product-facing workflows.
• Work across backend systems, UI surfaces, event processing, and third-party integrations.
• Turn unclear problems into concrete technical plans.
• Own production behavior, including monitoring, alerting, logging, debugging, and runbooks.
• Work with product, design, infrastructure, support, and other engineering teams.
• Improve quality through tests, code review, observability, and simpler designs.
• Use data and production evidence to validate decisions.
• Take ownership of incidents and production issues when systems do not behave as expected.

Skills

Java

Scala

Kotlin

Go

Distributed systems

Education

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

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Pub/Sub

Redis

Job description

Commerce is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Austin, TX to design and build reliable services, APIs, and product-facing workflows. You will work across backend systems, UI surfaces, event processing, and third-party integrations.

You should have 5+ years of software engineering experience, strong backend skills in Java, Scala, Kotlin, or Go, and a track record of stabilizing production systems with testing, monitoring, and runbooks.