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Commerce (Nasdaq: CMRC) empowers businesses to innovate, grow, and thrive through an open, AI-driven commerce ecosystem. As the parent company of BigCommerce, Feedonomics, and Makeswift, we help brands unlock the full potential of their data, connect systems, and deliver seamless, personalized experiences across every channel. Visit commerce.com or follow us for more. #PoweredByCommerce
Senior Software Engineer – Backend, PHP
Location
United States
Posted
153 days ago
Salary
$156.4K - $234.5K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Software Engineer – Backend, PHP
Commerce
• 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.
Job Requirements
- 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.
Benefits
- Inclusion and Belonging
- Equal opportunity employer
- Reasonable accommodation for disabilities
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