Software Engineer II (PHP/Golang) - 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.

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.

Join our Search Team as a Software Engineer and play a key role in developing BigCommerce's core search capabilities. You will contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of our Elasticsearch-based search platform. By implementing robust and scalable search features, you will directly enhance the shopping experience for millions of shoppers and support the needs of our merchants.

What You'll Do

• Contribute to the design and development of features for our advanced search solutions using Elasticsearch, with a focus on PHP and Golang.
• Support, maintain, and extend the search indexing pipeline using RabbitMQ and Redis.
• Collaborate with product managers, UX designers, and other engineers to translate business requirements into well-engineered technical solutions.
• Assist in driving improvements to search performance, relevance, and the user experience for both faceted and plain text search.
• Partner with senior engineers to implement best practices and troubleshoot complex issues within our PHP and Go codebases.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to support the stability and performance of the search platform.
  
  

Who You Are

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Management Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of software development experience.
• 1+ years of experience with distributed messaging tools like RabbitMQ or Kafka.
• Strong proficiency in PHP and/or Golang, as well as SQL.
• Solid understanding of search concepts and experience with Elasticsearch.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Excellent communication and collaborative teamwork skills.
  
  

Preferred Skills

• Experience with large-scale, high-traffic microservices architectures.
• Previous experience with Scala or Java is a plus.
• Familiarity with relevance and scoring within Elasticsearch.
• Experience with other components of the Elastic Stack (Kibana, Logstash).
• Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker.
  
  

If you're a passionate and experienced search engineer excited to push the boundaries of technology and deliver exceptional search experiences, we encourage you to apply.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at BigCommerce

Our employees make the difference. At BigCommerce, we believe that celebrating the unique histories, perspectives and abilities of every employee makes a difference for our company, our customers and our community. We are an equal opportunity employer and the inclusive atmosphere we build together will make room for every person to contribute, grow and thrive.

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.

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