Lead Software Engineer

Commerce is on a mission to empower businesses to innovate and thrive with their open, AI-driven commerce ecosystem. The Lead Software Engineer will define the technical vision for their domain, engage with staff engineers, and deliver projects aligned with the broader platform vision while working with a collaborative Backend Engineering team.

Responsibilities:

• Define the technical vision to advance the domain and engage with Staff Engineers to deliver projects aligned to the platform vision
• Design and implement high-quality solutions to the most complex and ambiguous problems in the domain, with focus on scalability and high availability
• Own end-to-end technical project execution, including scoping, sequencing, forecasting ECDs, and driving delivery towards deadlines
• Participate in RFCs and architectural discussions, evaluating and recommending tools, technologies, and processes that solve concrete business problems
• Own and represent deep SME across complex and sophisticated areas, guiding design decisions and influencing technical direction
• Proactively monitor the state of the team's services and recommend optimizations based on data
• Advocate for practices and implement tooling to enable others, leveraging automation to enhance the robustness of the CI/CD pipeline, thereby streamlining efficient application development and deployment
• Be a champion for Continuous Improvement in end-to-end infrastructure and systems, including conducting post-mortems to analyze and prevent repeat failures
• Act as a dedicated mentor to multiple mentees, providing insightful feedback about teammates to help them excel
• Drive team-level education and documentation practices to foster a culture of shared learning
• Proactively identify and build important relationships with partner teams to ensure cross-functional alignment

Requirements:

• 7+ years of programming experience in backend languages
• Strong experience with PHP is required
• Extensive experience with MySQL or a similar technology, paired with a strong understanding of database schema design, caching and scalability
• Strong understanding of various communication protocols (TCP, gRPC, etc) and Distributed Systems
• Ability to perform time and memory complexity analysis
• Experience in Caching technologies (e.g. Redis or Memcached)
• Solid understanding of Linux operating systems and experience with modern CI/CD and containerization tools like Docker
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S
• BS or higher degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• Experience with Python, GoLang, Java or a similar programming language is a bonus
• DevOps experience is highly preferred
• Experience with Cloud solutions (GCP highly preferred)
• Experience with Full-stack observability frameworks and tools (OTel highly preferred)