Senior Software Engineer (Backend) - PHP

At Commerce, our mission is to empower businesses to innovate, grow, and thrive with our open, AI-driven commerce ecosystem. As the parent company of BigCommerce, Feedonomics, and Makeswift, we connect the tools and systems that power growth, enabling businesses to unlock the full potential of their data, deliver seamless and personalized experiences across every channel, and adapt swiftly to an ever-changing market. Simply said, we help businesses confidently solve complex commerce challenges so they can build smarter, adapt faster, and grow on their own terms. If you want to be part of a team of bold builders, sharp thinkers, and technical trailblazers, working together to shape the future of commerce, this is the place for you.

We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Senior Software Engineer - Backend to join the fully remote Engineering team at Feedonomics. You will be working with a highly collaborative and cross-functional Backend Engineering team to deliver and scale core infrastructure components and services that power our robust, high-performance, data-intensive SaaS platform.

• 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.

• 5+ years of programming experience in backend languages

• 2+ years experience with PHP (Strongly preferred), Python, GoLang, Java or a similar programming language

• 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

• Experience in Caching technologies is a plus (e.g. Redis or Memcached)

• DevOps experience preferred

• Experience with Full-stack observability tools like New Relic is strongly preferred

• 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

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(Pay Transparency Range: $156,354 - $234,532)

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