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Lead Software Engineer - Scala

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Austin, TX
139K-234K Annually
Senior level
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Austin, TX
139K-234K Annually
Senior level
Lead Software Engineer will produce efficient code, optimize performance, mentor engineers, and collaborate on building scalable digital commerce solutions in a dynamic environment.
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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. Simply said, we 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, working together to shape the future of commerce, this is the place for you.

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BigCommerce is disrupting the e-commerce industry as the SaaS leader for fast-growing, mid-market businesses. We enable our customers to build intuitive and engaging stores at a fraction of the cost to support every stage of their growth.

BigCommerce offers a dynamic, collaborative environment, helping you expand your skills and take ideas from inception to delivery.

What You’ll Do:

- Maintain and improve services that power Commerce’s Pricing Engine.

- Fix bugs and build features to enhance the Pricing Engine.

- Build and maintain pricing-related APIs (REST and GRPC).

- Write end-to-end tests to validate pricing behaviors.

- Mentor and help engineers become more productive by removing blockers.

- Drive the technical vision for the Pricing Engine.

- Produce technical documentation of workflows related to the Pricing Domain

- Work closely with product managers and other engineers to gather requirements and develop the team’s roadmap.

Who You Are:

- 7+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer

- Experience developing in Scala, PHP a plus

- Able to dive in quickly learn a new domain

- Attention to detail

- Familiarity with creating end-to-end test suites. We use Playwright with TypeScript.

- Experience with evolving/scaling high throughput applications

- Able to lead the team in project discovery, design, and implementation

- Desire to work in a collaborative, open environment on an Agile team as a contributor and mentor

- Bachelor’s degree Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent experience

(Pay range transparency $139,000 - $234,000)
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The exact salary will be dependent on the successful candidate’s location, relevant knowledge, skills, and qualifications.

Inclusion and Belonging

At Commerce, we believe that celebrating the unique histories, perspectives and abilities of every employee makes a difference for our company, our customers and our community. We are an equal opportunity employer and the inclusive atmosphere we build together will make room for every person to contribute, grow and thrive.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the interview process, to perform essential job functions and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you need an accommodation in order to interview at Commerce, please let us know during any of your interactions with our recruiting team.

Learn more about the Commerce team, culture and benefits at https://www.commerce.com/careers/

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Top Skills

AI
Continuous Integration
Ecommerce
SaaS
Web Services

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