Software Engineer II - Storefront Services Team
BigCommerce1 day ago
Remote, United States or Atlanta, GA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$112k - $168k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain features in the storefront service, collaborating with product managers and partner engineering teams on requirements, design, and delivery.
- Extend GraphQL Storefront API queries and fields while maintaining backward compatibility for headless storefronts and third-party integrations.
- Evolve the service to support AI-driven shopping agents and assistants that browse, build carts, and check out.
- Investigate production issues and improve service performance and reliability.
- Review code from teammates and other engineering teams and participate in design reviews and pairing with senior engineers.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience building backend services that run in production.
- Preferred minimum bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, software engineering, computer engineering, MIS, or equivalent experience.
- Production experience with Scala or Kotlin is preferred; backend engineers experienced in Java, Go, or other languages who are willing to learn Scala are encouraged to apply.
- Experience translating stakeholder requirements into technical designs and delivering them to production.
- Working knowledge of HTTP fundamentals, including caching headers, cookies, sessions, and timeouts.
- Familiarity with GraphQL APIs, service-to-service communication, and caching technologies such as gRPC and Redis.
- Experience debugging production issues using metrics, traces, and logs, including tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or Sentry.
- Familiarity with feature flags, gradual rollouts, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Regular use of AI coding assistants such as Claude Code or Cursor, with careful review of generated code.
- Interest in how AI agents use APIs, including MCP and tool calling.
Benefits
- Austin- and Atlanta-area employees follow a hybrid schedule with three days per week in the office.
- The role is part of a distributed team working across time zones.
- The position may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits according to local policies.
About BigCommerce
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