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.
Senior Scala Software Engineer
You will be working on the team that develops BigCommerce's Page Builder tool, empowering our customers to design their stores with a no-code, drag-and-drop interface.
BigCommerce offers a dynamic, collaborative environment, helping you expand your skills and take ideas from inception to delivery.
What You’ll Do:
- Produce bullet-proof code that is robust, efficient, and maintainable.
- Work on challenging problems such as query optimization and performance optimization while adhering to security protocols
- Work closely with operations and infrastructure to improve the architecture while building and scaling back-end services.
- Engage in technical discussion of new solutions and architectures
- Participate in code reviews to maintain and improve quality
- Mentor other engineers in the current domain
- Build beautiful, scalable products using modern tools
- Collaborate with our product and design teams to define feature specifications and timelines
- Build new features with a focus on testability and extensibility
- Engage in technical discussion of new solutions and architectures
- Review other engineer’s code to maintain and improve quality and security
- Support an open, positive, and energized culture
- Encourage innovation and foster an environment of continuous improvement
- Ensure that technical decisions support our goals of quality, performance, scalability, reliability, availability, and security
Who You Are:
- 5+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer
- 3+ years of professional experience with Scala
- Experience with Ruby preferred
- Extensive experience with principles of continuous integration and designing, implementing and taking ownership of various tasks across the development cycle
- Experienced in developing high-performance, scalable and available web services, and applications
- A team player who works closely with stakeholders, pod leaders, and other teams to promote communication and collaboration
- Enjoy working on solving challenging problems in a fun, collaborative environment.
- Highly proactive and results-oriented with excellent critical thinking and communications skills.
- Excited to learn about new technologies
- Experience with eCommerce and SaaS platforms is highly preferred.
What's in it for you:
- Work with modern technologies, cloud development and highly scalable distributed systems.
- Work for an international Product company.
- Be responsible for development of BigCommerce's Page Builder tool.
- Become an expert in the area and provide high quality Product to the market.
- Learn from senior professionals and share knowledge, expertise and good practices to the team.
- Be a part of a fast-growing company.
- Work remotely from Poland.
We provide internal and external learning courses.
Our Hiring Processes Might Include:
- Recruiter phone screen
- Hiring manager Interview
- Technical Interview / Code Assessment
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at BigCommerce
Our employees make the difference. At BigCommerce, 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 BigCommerce, please let us know during any of your interactions with our recruiting team.
Learn more about the BigCommerce team, culture and benefits at https://careers.bigcommerce.com.
