BigCommerce is disrupting the e-commerce industry as the SaaS leader for fast- growing, mid-market businesses. We enable our customers to build intuitive and engaging stores to support every stage of their growth.
BigCommerce, named a 2020 "Best Place to Work" in Austin, is looking for a Lead Software Engineer, Ruby. (Generous $$ relocation assistance provided) You’ll be working with team members to extend our products and integrate with a broad array of external services. BigCommerce offers a heavily collaborative environment helping you expand your skill set and take ideas from inception to delivery. This role will require a need to balance: driving our aggressive product roadmap, improving the performance & stability of our system, introducing engineering best practices into the organization, & leading/mentoring other engineers.

What You’ll Do

• Use Ruby, Rails, gRPC, JavaScript, RabbitMQ, Docker, Resque, MySQL, Redis, and a slew of other technologies to help power our platform
• Help design/architect/execute the building of services for the BigCommerce platform
• Build integrations with 3rd party SOAP/REST APIs that can span multiple codesets/services, fail gracefully, and be highly extensible
• Coach team towards (and write) code that is performant, fault-tolerant, maintainable, testable, and concise
• Collaborate with our product and design teams to define feature specifications and timelines
• Drive our technical roadmap and direction of our stack
• Collaborate with stakeholders and other teams to promote communication & coordination
• Engage in technical discussion of new solutions and architectures
• Participate in code reviews to maintain and improve quality
• Support an open, positive, and energized culture
• Encourage innovation and foster an environment of continuous improvement
• Support, mentor, & coach 4-5 members of your team

• 7+ years experience as a Software Engineer using at least two of Ruby, Scala, Elixir, Python, Go, JavaScript, or PHP. Ruby & Scala heavily preferred.
• Highly Preferred: At least 5 years of professional experience with Ruby / Ruby on Rails
• Adept with full-stack development
• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, MIS or related equivalent experience
• Experienced in developing high performance, scalable and available web services and applications
• Desire to work in a collaborative, open environment on an Agile team as a contributor and mentor
• Highly proactive and results-oriented with excellent critical thinking skills
• Excited to learn new technologies
• Experience with TDD, BDD, DDD
• Strong understanding of relational databases, distributed queuing systems, and external services integrations over APIs (REST/SOAP)
• Experience with ecommerce, SaaS platforms highly preferred
• Nice to Have: Experience with OAuth and/or SAML workflows and permissions
• Nice to Haves: DevOps experience, GCP experience, and/or Docker or other containerization technologies