Team Lead, Software Engineering (Web) - PHP

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BigCommerce, named a "Best Place to Work" in Austin 2017 is looking for a Team Lead for our Web team. BigCommerce has established itself as the leading SaaS platform for merchants to build and grow their businesses via online storefronts. The Web team is responsible for building a beautiful front-end to our business and the top of our conversion funnel. This team works closely with many phases of our business including Marketing and Design to ensure we have a site which both attracts prospective merchants and also encourages them to give us a try.

This role is for those who thrive 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.

BigCommerce offers a heavily collaborative environment helping you expand your skill set and take ideas from inception to delivery.

What you’ll do:

  • Be both, an active hands-on coder and an effective leader.
  • Drive our technical roadmap and direction of our stack.
  • Lead and inspire your team to build a performant and responsive web site.
  • Help build and lead a high-caliber team of software engineers.
  • Make the website fast and fully optimized with caching, minification, CDNs, spriting, etc.
  • Write code that is performant, fault-tolerant, maintainable, testable, and concise.
  • Work closely with ops/infrastructure to improve our architecture and scalability
  • 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.
  • Build an open, positive, and energized culture.

Who you are:

  • 5+ years experience in building systems using at least two different languages: PHP, Ruby, Scala, Java, etc.
  • Passion for building beautiful, dynamic, data-driven websites.
  • Experience driving and retaining a high performance team.
  • Solid JavaScript experience with MVT frameworks such as Angular, Backbone, React, etc.
  • An eye for taking desktop designs and making them mobile responsive.
  • Experience building integrations with 3rd party SOAP/REST API providers that can span multiple code sets, fail gracefully, and be highly extensible.
  • Experience with Full Stack Development and OOP/MVC design patterns/principles.
  • Experience building or managing distributed and/or SOA architectures.
  • Experience with application optimization and architecture.
  • Solid UNIX knowledge.
  • Experience with Agile methodologies.
  • Experience with CraftCMS or other CMS a plus
  • BS/MS in computer science or equivalent experience.

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!

 

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Technology we use

  • Engineering
  • Product
  • Sales & Marketing
  • People Operations
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Location

Our HQ is set amongst trees and nature trails in the beautiful hills of Austin.

What are BigCommerce Perks + Benefits

BigCommerce Benefits Overview

We empower our employees to think big and do great work by offering a positive work environment and outstanding benefits.

For your health: We offer multiple national medical insurance plans including PPO and HDHP options. We also offer a PPO dental plan and vision insurance.

For your wealth: We offer a 401(k) retirement plan, a Health Savings Account (HSA), a Healthcare Flexible Spending Account (FSA), and a Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (DCRA) as pre-tax benefits. We also offer company paid life insurance up to 3 times your annual salary, as well as company paid short-term & long-term disability insurance.

For your resilient self: We care about your wellbeing in addition to your health and wealth. To assist with that, we offer paid vacation leave (15 days PTO for hourly employees and open vacation for our salary employees). All employees receive paid sick leave, paid volunteer time, and a paid wellness day. We have multiple family benefits for caregivers including paid parental leave, newborn child sick leave, adoption assistance, and a flexible return to work policy. We also offer educational reimbursements, a free BigCommerce ecommerce store, and an Employee Assistance Program.

Last, but definitely not least, we like to enjoy ourselves at work. We have company-sponsored employee programs including Employee Resource Groups, culture clubs, even virtual events.

Culture
Volunteer in local community
We encourage our employees to give back to our local communities through volunteer work. BigCommerce provides two paid Charity/Volunteering Leave days per calendar year to all permanent employees.
Partners with nonprofits
Each year, the BC family partners with Partnerships for Children to help kids in the Austin area who have been taken from their homes and are living in protective custody during the holidays.
Open door policy
Open office floor plan
Employee resource groups
Employee-led culture committees
Hybrid work model
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity manifesto
Diversity employee resource groups
BEmpowered for women, non-binary people, and allies; BProud for LGBTQ+ and allies; B-United for Veterans and allies; BCinColor for people of color and allies; BigFamily for caregivers and alli
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
National United HealthCare PPO & HDHP plan options with deductibles as low as $500, coverage up to 100% for in-network services and low monthly premiums
Life insurance
Pet insurance
Wellness programs
Team workouts
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
Company equity
BigCommerce offers equity to employees through a number of different occasions, including an annual equity performance review period.
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Return-to-work program post parental leave
Company sponsored family events
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Generous PTO
Unlimited vacation policy for salaried team members and generous accrued time off policy for non-exempt team members.
Paid volunteer time
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free snacks and drinks
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Onsite office parking
We offer employees parking in a garage on the property.
Fitness stipend
Onsite gym
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
BigCommerce offers a variety of opportunities for learning and development from training sessions and workshops, to different conferences to attend.
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Career mentorship is available.
Continuing education stipend
Continuing education available during work hours
Online course subscriptions available
Customized development tracks

Additional Perks + Benefits

We empower our employees to define culture in the areas of wellness & fitness, community & volunteerism, and team building through local culture clubs that help our employees connect. Our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) support our diverse workforce through supportive, inclusive networks that help develop awareness and respect across the company. We sustain our culture by understanding what drives our employees' engagement, measuring that engagement, and implementing initiatives to continue to make BigCommerce an even better place to work.

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