Lead Software Engineer, Ruby (Billing Team)

About BigCommerce

BigCommerce’s mission is to help merchants sell more at every stage of business growth. Simply put, we are: built for growth so merchants can realize their visions without compromise; designed for powerful performance to enable businesses to scale seamlessly with technology they can trust; efficient in both time and cost.

Position

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, and 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 and 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, and coach 4-5 members of your team

Your qualification

• 7+ years experience as a Software Engineer using at least two of Ruby, Scala, Elixir, Python, Go, Javascript, or PHP. Ruby and 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

Will be a plus

• Experience with OAuth and/or SAML workflows and permissions
• DevOps experience, GCP experience, and/or Docker or other containerization technologies

Additional details

Our Hiring Processes Might Include

We want to see your problem-solving and analytical skills. Be prepared to write good, clean, scalable code. You don’t need to know our entire stack, but we’re looking for practical experience, someone who can solve production problems in the cloud.

• Recruiter Phone Screen
• Hiring Manager Screening
• Online Code Assessment
• Final Team Interview

Note: Visa Work Authorization Sponsorship Supported and Relocation Assistance Provided