Senior Software Engineer - Storefront Services Team

Commerce.com US; United States; Remote; USD 116,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Commerce is seeking an experienced backend engineer to build and operate scalable services powering our AI‑driven commerce ecosystem. You will work with Scala/Kotlin, GraphQL, and distributed systems in production.

You will collaborate with product managers to translate requirements into robust designs, implement features for the storefront service, and help enable AI‑powered shopping experiences. This remote‑first role offers a national base salary range ($116k–$195k) with potential equity and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building backend services that run in production.
• Bachelors degree in CS/EE/SW/CE/MIS or equivalent experience.
• Production experience with Scala or Kotlin preferred; other languages welcome.
• Experience turning requirements into technical design and delivering to production.
• Knowledge of HTTP fundamentals, caching, cookies, sessions, and timeouts.
• Familiarity with GraphQL APIs.
• Familiarity with service-to-service communication and caching (gRPC, Redis, etc).
• Experience debugging production issues using metrics, traces and logs.
• Familiarity with feature flags and gradual rollouts.
• Experience writing automated tests and working with CI/CD pipelines.
• Uses AI coding assistants and reviews AI-generated code with care.
• Interest in how AI agents use APIs (e.g., MCP, tool calling).

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain features in the storefront service, shaping requirements with product managers and partners.
• Extend GraphQL Storefront API queries and fields with backward compatibility for headless storefronts.
• Help evolve the storefront service to support AI‑driven shopping experiences.
• Investigate and fix production issues, improving performance and reliability.
• Review code from teammates and mentor through design reviews and pairing.

Skills

Backend development

Scala

Kotlin

GraphQL

CI/CD

Distributed systems

HTTP fundamentals

Education

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

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Sentry

gRPC

Redis

Job description

Welcome to the Agentic Commerce Era

At Commerce, our mission is to empower businesses to innovate, grow, and thrive with our open, AI-driven commerce ecosystem. As the parent company of BigCommerce , Feedonomics , and Makeswift , we connect the tools and systems that power growth, enabling businesses to unlock the full potential of their data, deliver seamless and personalized experiences across every channel, and adapt swiftly to an ever-changing market. We believe in harnessing AI responsibly to unlock new possibilities, and we're looking for individuals who use it intentionally to solve problems, accelerate outcomes, and expand what's possible in their role. Our purpose is to help businesses confidently solve complex commerce challenges so they can build smarter, adapt faster, and grow on their own terms. If you want to be part of a team of bold builders, sharp thinkers, and technical trailblazers who shape the future of commerce, this is the place for you.

We work as a distributed team across time zones, so we value clear writing and independence: thoughtful design docs, detailed pull requests, async discussions anyone can pick up, and the trust to move your work forward without waiting on others. We believe the people who build something are best placed to ship it, so our engineers take their own changes all the way to production and see them through with confidence. We are a team where you'll have real ownership, and where your work reaches shoppers on every BigCommerce storefront.

BigCommerce, part of the Commerce brand family, helps merchants increase sales at every stage of their growth. From small startups to mid-market businesses and large enterprises, we provide the leading e-commerce platform. Our customers can then concentrate on what's most important: growing their businesses. We enable our customers to build, innovate, and grow, collectively reshaping the e-commerce industry.

What you’ll do

• Build and maintain features in the service that powers every BigCommerce storefront, working with product managers and partner teams to shape the requirements and design the solution before building and releasing it
• Add and extend GraphQL Storefront API queries and fields, following our schema guidelines so changes stay backward compatible for headless storefronts and third party integrations
• Help evolve the storefront service to support AI driven shopping, so that agents and shopping assistants can browse, build carts, and check out for shoppers
• Investigate and fix production issues, and improve performance and reliability in the areas of the service you work on
• Review code from teammates and the other engineering teams that contribute to the storefront service, and grow your design skills through design reviews and pairing with senior engineers

Who are you

• 5+ years of experience building backend services that run in production
• Education: Preferred minimum Bachelor's degree in CS, EE, SW, CE, MIS; or equivalent experience
• Production experience with Scala or Kotlin preferred; backend engineers experienced in other languages (e.g., Java, Go, etc.) who are eager to learn Scala are encouraged to apply
• Experience working with product managers or other stakeholders to turn requirements into a technical design, and delivering it to production
• Working knowledge of HTTP fundamentals such as caching headers, cookies and sessions, and timeouts
• Familiarity with GraphQL APIs
• Familiarity with service to service communication and caching (e.g., gRPC, Redis, etc.)
• Experience debugging production issues using metrics, traces, and logs (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Sentry, etc.)
• Familiarity with releasing changes safely through feature flags and gradual rollouts
• Experience writing automated tests and working with CI/CD pipelines
• Uses AI coding assistants as a regular part of development (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, etc.), and reviews AI generated code with the same care as code written by hand
• Interest in how AI agents use APIs (e.g., MCP, tool calling, ...)

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(Pay Transparency Range: $116,000.00 - $195,000.00)

Work Where You Thrive

Commerce is a remote-first company. For team members in Austin, Atlanta, and London, we offer optional collaborative workspaces for team gatherings, workshops, and in-person connection. Use them whenever they're helpful, balancing focused individual work with meaningful in-person collaboration.

Compensation Transparency

The national base salary range for this role is posted above in this job post.

Final compensation will be determined based on factors such as relevant experience, skills, qualifications and geographic location. We also consider internal equity to help ensure fair and consistent pay practices across our teams.

Where applicable, this role may also be eligible for variable compensation (such as bonus or commission), equity, and benefits in accordance with local policies. Details will be shared during the hiring process. We are committed