Senior Scala Software Engineer - Remote

BigCommerce’s mission is to help merchants sell more at every stage of growth, from small startups, to mid-market businesses to large enterprises. We focus on being the best ecommerce platform so our customers can focus on what matters most: growing their businesses.

We are equally passionate about growing our employee’s careers and providing them an incredible experience as we rapidly expand across the globe. We are proud to have been recognized numerous times for our product and workplace culture. We empower our people and customers to build, innovate and grow, so together we can redefine the ecommerce industry.

Senior Scala Software Engineer

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 at a fraction of the cost to support every stage of their growth.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Scala) for the Catalog team. This growing team is looking for an engineer with a strong technical background who will focus on developing new features as well as improving the performance and reliability of existing Catalog domain services. We primarily use technologies like Scala, RabbitMQ, MySQL, Redis, gRPC to build one of the fastest and reliable ecommerce platforms. Some of the services and components are also done in Go and PHP, and knowing those is a huge advantage.

BigCommerce offers a dynamic, collaborative environment, helping you expand your skills and take ideas from inception to delivery.

What You’ll Do:

• Build highly-available, high-performance, redundant, and scalable distributed systems in a polyglot environment
• Engage in technical discussion of new solutions and architectures
• Build new features with a focus on testability, extensibility, and maintainability
• Drive our technical roadmap and direction of our stack
• Write code that is high-performance, maintainable, clear, and concise
• Advocate for modern development practices and tools
• Ensure that technical decisions support our goals of quality, performance, scalability, reliability, availability, and security
• Support an open, positive, and energized culture
• Encourage innovation and foster an environment of continuous improvement
• Collaborate with the teams located across the Globe

Who You Are:

• 4+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer
• 2+ years of Scala in a production environment, performance monitoring and tuning is a plus
• Knowledge of object-oriented and functional programming techniques
• Experience monitoring and operating microservices
• Knowledge of highly scalable architectures
• Strong desire to learn new languages, frameworks, best practices and design patterns
• Write code that is performant, fault-tolerant, maintainable, testable and concise
• Participate in code reviews to ensure best practices
• Have great attention to detail
• Experience monitoring and operating microservices
• Familiarity with agile methodologies and ticketing systems such as JIRA.

What's in it for you:

• Work for an international and fast-growing Product company.
• Work with modern technologies, cloud based and highly scalable distributed systems.
• Be responsible for evolving and maintaining few vital components of every eCommerce platform: Catalog and Inventory Management services and related APIs
• Be an expert in the team and provide high quality products to the market
• We provide internal and external learning courses with certification possibilities and private medical insurance
• Restricted Stock Units
• Work remotely from Poland.

Our Hiring Processes Might Include:

• Recruiter Phone Screen
• Technical Interview (including coding)
• Hiring Manager Interview

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the interview process, to perform essential job functions and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you need an accommodation in order to interview at BigCommerce, please let us know during any of your interactions with our recruiting team.

Learn more about the BigCommerce team, culture and benefits at https://careers.bigcommerce.com.