What You'll Do

• Design, implement, and maintain features in a Ruby on Rails service for the payments offering on the BigCommerce platform

• Ensure functionality is production-grade, with the appropriate test coverage on all layers, instrumentation in place, and documentation

• Troubleshoot production issues and contribute to post-incident reviews to improve reliability

• 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

• 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

• Mentor other engineers in the current domain

• 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

• 3+ years of professional backend development experience, with a strong focus on Ruby on Rails

• Solid understanding of building and operating production-grade systems (e.g. you know your way around logs, traces, metrics, feature flags, and can debug live traffic issues)

• Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry and Lightstep)

• A good understanding of Domain Driven Design

• experience integrating with third-party APIs and services, particularly those with nuanced state transitions (like payment flows).

• Education: Preferred Minimum Bachelor's degree in CS, EE, SW, CE, MIS; or equivalent experience or completed either a comprehensive software engineering boot camp

• 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

• Experience with PHP and Scala is preferred

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

Protect Yourself Against Hiring Scams: Our Corporate Disclaimer

Commerce, along with many other employers, has become the subject of fraudulent job offers to hopeful prospective job seekers.

Be advised:

Commerce does not offer jobs to individuals who do not go through our formal hiring process.

Commerce will never:

• require payment of recruitment fees from candidates;

• request personally identifiable information through unsanctioned websites or applications;

• attempt to solicit money from you as part of the hiring process or as part of an employment offer;

• solicit money to complete visa requirements as part of a job offer.

If you receive unsolicited offers of employment from Commerce, we urge you to be extremely cautious and avoid engaging or responding.

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