Manager, Engineering - Omni-Channel
BigCommerce, named a ”Best Place to Work" in Australia, a “Best and Brightest” place to work in San Francisco, and a “Best Place to Work” in Austin, is looking for a full-time Engineering Manager - Omni-Channel in our downtown Austin office.
BigCommerce has established itself as the leading SaaS platform for merchants to build and grow their businesses via online storefronts. The Omni-channel team seeks to take things to the next level by building cutting edge innovations in commerce allowing our merchants to manage and sell their products beyond just their online storefronts to where their customers are.
This growing team is looking for a leader with strong technical experience who will help them focus on iteratively improving the experience for our merchants selling their products on Amazon. In the last couple years, we have established ourselves as the leading e-commerce, Omni-channel solution providing best-in-class integrations with Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and Square and more, exciting integrations on the way!
In this role, you’ll help empower our merchants to quickly and easily take advantage of all there is to offer by selling products with Amazon.com. You’ll also work closely with other engineers, UI designers and product managers to define stories, assess scope and technical concerns as well as advocate for best practices that improve software quality.
This role is for 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/mentoring other engineers.
Who you are:
- 5-7+ years experience in building systems that run in the JVM
- Experience using at least two different languages: Scala (required), Java, PHP, etc.
- 3+ years experience using high-level javascript frameworks (e.g., React, Vue, or Angular) to build single page applications. This team will mainly be using Angular
- 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
- Knowledge of TDD, BDD, DDD
- Experience building libraries that can be shared across multiple services
- Experience building or managing distributed and/or SOA architectures
- Experience with SaaS platforms is highly desirable
- Experience with application optimization and architecture
- Solid UNIX knowledge
- BS/MS in computer science or equivalent experience
What you’ll do:
- Oversee 4-6 direct reports.
- 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
- Help design/architect/execute the building of services for the BigCommerce platform
- Build highly-available, distributed systems
- Write code that is performant, fault-tolerant, maintainable, testable, and concise
- Drive our technical roadmap and direction of our stack
- Encourage innovation and foster an environment of continuous improvement
- Collaborate with stakeholders and other teams to promote communication & coordination
- 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
An amazing and inclusive company culture that draws strength from diverse opinions and ambitious ideas
Open vacation policy for salaried team members and generous accrual vacation policy for hourly team members, + paid sick time
Competitive compensation packages and stock grants for every employee
Comprehensive health insurance coverage that starts on day one
Kitchens stocked with snacks and drinks (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