About the position
BigCommerce’s mission is to help merchants sell more at every stage of growth, from small startups, to mid-market businesses to large enterprises. We focus on being the best ecommerce platform so our customers can focus on what matters most: growing their businesses. We are equally passionate about growing our employee’s careers and providing them an incredible experience as we rapidly expand across the globe. We are proud to have been recognized numerous times for our product and workplace culture. We empower our people and customers to build, innovate and grow, so together we can redefine the ecommerce industry. 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 to support every stage of their growth. BigCommerce, recognized as a "Best Place to Work" in 2025, is seeking a talented Software Engineer II to join our innovative Identity & Access Management (IAM) Team! This is your chance to dive into the dynamic and rapidly expanding e-commerce industry, shaping the future of online business. This full-time position offers the flexibility of being fully remote within the United States.
Responsibilities
- Craft High-Quality Solutions: You'll develop reliable, efficient, and maintainable code, contributing to the foundation of our services and focusing on creating positive experiences for our users.
- Contribute to Technical Initiatives & Solve Engaging Challenges: You'll actively contribute to technical tasks and feature development, such as improving system performance and query efficiency, with a focus on security and best practices.
- Support Our Architecture & System Evolution: You'll work with operations, infrastructure, and senior engineering teams to help evolve our systems, contributing to the design and scalability of our back-end services and understanding the technical direction of key product components.
- Engage in Technical Excellence & Understand Strategy: You'll actively participate in technical discussions, helping to explore and understand solutions, architectural approaches, and technical strategies that align with product and business goals.
- Foster a Culture of Quality: You'll uphold and contribute to software quality and security practices. This includes participating in thoughtful code reviews, asking questions, testing, and sharing your knowledge to help elevate team standards and our codebase.
- Collaborate and Grow: You'll work closely with fellow engineers, offering support and sharing knowledge to enhance collective team skills and project success.
Requirements
- Preferred Minimum Bachelor's degree in CS, EE, SW, CE, MIS; or equivalent experience or completed either a comprehensive software engineering boot camp.
- 2+ years of software development experience.
- Experience and growing proficiency in Ruby.
- Familiarity with TypeScript/React, Scala or Go is a plus.
- Familiar with continuous integration principles and have experience contributing to various aspects of the development cycle.
- Foundational understanding of high-performance, scalable, and resilient web services and applications.
- Comfortable working within an Agile/Scrum environment.
Nice-to-haves
- Previous exposure to or interest in Identity and Access Management.
Benefits
- Flexible work culture with remote work options.
- Hybrid model for those in the Austin, TX area.
- Recognition as a 'Best Place to Work' in 2025.
