Lead Software Engineer

BigCommerce is disrupting the e-commerce industry as the SaaS leader for fast-growing, mid-market businesses. The Lead Software Engineer will produce robust and efficient code, work on performance optimization, and collaborate with teams to define feature specifications and timelines.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 7+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer
• 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