Manager, Software Engineering - Integrations Team
BigCommerce, named a 2016 "Best Place to Work" in Austin is looking for a Manager, Software Engineer to lead our new Integrations team. This is a person who thrives at building high performing Software Engineering teams and is passionate about empowering engineers to achieve the best work of their careers. Well respected by technical and non-technical individuals, this person is an influential leader, coach, manager and engineer. This leader will need to balance: driving our aggressive product roadmap, improving the performance and stability of our system, introducing engineering best practices into the organization, and leading and mentoring other engineers.
Who you are:
- 5+ years experience in building systems using at least two different languages: PHP, Ruby, Scala, Java, etc... We primarily use Ruby and PHP.
- 2+ years in driving and retaining a high performance team.
- Experience building integrations with 3rd party SOAP/REST API providers that can span multiple code sets, fail gracefully, and be highly extendable.
- Experience with Full Stack Development and OOP/MVC design patterns/principles.
- Experience building or managing distributed and/or SOA architectures.
- Experience with SaaS platforms or Cloud Computing highly desirable.
- Experience with application optimization and architecture.
- Solid UNIX knowledge.
- Experience with Agile methodologies.
- BS/MS in computer science or equivalent experience.
What you’ll do:
- Be both, an active hands-on coder and an effective people manager.
- Build an open, positive, and energized culture.
- Build, lead and hire a high-calibre team of software engineers.
- Drive our technical roadmap and direction of our stack.
- Lead and inspire your team and other engineers to build the best e-commerce platform on the planet.
- Encourage innovation and foster an environment of continuous improvement.
- Ensure that technical decisions support our goals of quality, performance, scalability, reliability, availability, and security.
- Collaborate with PM, engineers, and stakeholders in all corporate offices to promote communication and coordination.
- Establish team objectives in alignment with business goals.
- Organize and facilitate regular 1:1’s with your team for coaching and mentoring.
Inside BigCommerce
Our mission is to revolutionize commerce, bringing online selling and features once reserved for multi-billion-dollar companies to the masses. To make that a reality, we need exceptional people to build, support and grow our platform. If that’s you, come join a fast-growing company with more than 85,000 clients, a great culture, outstanding benefits and $125 million in funding from visionary investors like Steve Case's Revolution Partners, Softbank, Amex and Telstra.
We’re a team of smart, passionate and talented people on a mission to democratize commerce. If you’re looking to work with industry leaders and love what you do, we want to hear from you!
Perks & Benefits
- Choice of garage parking or light rail pass for those in downtown Austin office
- An amazing company culture that doesn’t just talk values, but lives them
- Open vacation policy for salaried team members + paid sick time
- Competitive compensation packages and meaningful stock grants for every employee
- Comprehensive health insurance coverage that starts on day one
- Fully stocked kitchens and craft beers (don’t worry, we also subsidize gym memberships)
- Four especially cool offices in Austin, San Francisco and Sydney
- A free online store to help you live out your entrepreneurial dreams
- Employee-driven team building activities like paintball, rock climbing, social sports leagues, hackathons, movie nights, river floats, etc.
- Time off for volunteering and employee-driven charity events