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BigCommerce · 7 hours ago

Senior Software Engineer (Backend) - PHP

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
senioritySenior Level
money$156K/yr - $235K/yr
date5+ years exp
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, where the role involves collaborating on scalable applications and enhancing DevOps practices.
Enterprise SoftwareE-CommerceSaaSSoftwareProfessional ServicesBusiness Development
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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

Qualification

PHPMySQLDistributed SystemsPythonGoLangJavaCaching technologiesDevOpsCI/CD toolsTime complexity analysisMemory complexity analysisCommunication

Required

5+ years of programming experience in backend languages
2+ years experience with MySQL or a similar technology
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

Preferred

2+ years experience with PHP (Strongly preferred), Python, GoLang, Java or a similar programming language
DevOps experience preferred
Experience with Full-stack observability tools like New Relic is strongly preferred
Experience in Caching technologies is a plus (e.g. Redis or Memcached)

Company

BigCommerce

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BigCommerce is a SaaS provider for merchants running online businesses.
dateFounded in 2009
location
Austin, Texas, USA
people-size1001-5000 employees
web-link
http://www.bigcommerce.com

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$224.2M
Key Investors
Goldman SachsNotable CapitalNotable Capital,SoftBank Group
2020-08-05IPO
2018-04-25Series F· $64M
2016-05-10Series E· $30M

Leadership Team

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Russell Klein
Chief Commercial Officer
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