Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Go)

BigCommerce is a company focused on empowering businesses through an AI-driven commerce ecosystem. They are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Software Engineer - Backend to join their Engineering team at Feedonomics, where the role involves collaborating on the architecture and development of scalable applications and enhancing DevOps practices.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate on the architecture, design, and development of scalable and highly available applications and services
• Solve complex infrastructure-related problems with code, developing and providing post-release support for scalable applications
• Identify and implement enhancements to DevOps practices and tooling, leveraging automation to enhance robustness of the CI/CD pipeline, thereby streamlining efficient application development and deployment
• Drive technology design and articulate architecture solution options to the product owners and Engineering leadership
• Conduct post-mortems to analyze and prevent repeat failures
• Be a champion for Continuous Improvement in end-to-end infrastructure and systems
• Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies and processes that solve concrete business problems
• Become a domain expert who follows industry trends and applies best practices and contributes towards continuous improvement of those practices

Requirements:

• 5+ years of programming experience in backend languages like GoLang (Strongly preferred), Python, PHP, Java, etc
• 2+ years experience with MySQL, caching technologies (like Redis) and other non-relational data storage solutions
• Strong understanding of database schema design, caching and scalability
• Strong understanding of various communication protocols (TCP, RPC, etc)
• Strong understanding of Distributed Systems
• Workable understanding of Linux operating systems
• Experience with modern CI/CD and containerization tools like Docker
• Ability to perform time and memory complexity analysis
• 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 PHP is a plus
• Experience with Kubernetes is strongly preferred
• Experience with Full-stack observability tools like New Relic is strongly preferred