Welcome to the Agentic Commerce Era

At Commerce, our mission is to empower businesses to innovate, grow, and thrive with our open, AI-driven commerce ecosystem. As the parent company of BigCommerce, Feedonomics, and Makeswift, we connect the tools and systems that power growth, enabling businesses to unlock the full potential of their data, deliver seamless and personalized experiences across every channel, and adapt swiftly to an ever-changing market. We believe in harnessing AI responsibly to unlock new possibilities, and we’re looking for individuals who use it intentionally to solve problems, accelerate outcomes, and expand what’s possible in their role. Our purpose is to help businesses confidently solve complex commerce challenges so they can build smarter, adapt faster, and grow on their own terms. If you want to be part of a team of bold builders, sharp thinkers, and technical trailblazers who shape the future of commerce, this is the place for you.

As a Commerce brand, Feedonomics is a leading product feed management platform that helps brands, retailers, and agencies list and optimize products across top ecommerce channels worldwide. Feedonomics manages everything from onboarding to ongoing feed optimization, enabling our clients to scale faster with less effort. Feedonomics has earned a strong reputation for a full-service model and powerful technology—all rooted in a commitment to excellence.

This role is for a person who thrives at building and operating a high performing software engineering team 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.

What You'll Do:

Work closely with our engineering leaders to:

Build an open, positive and energized culture
Build, lead and hire a high-caliber 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 ecommerce products 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

Management responsibilities:

Be both a highly technical hands-on coder and an effective people manager
Hold your own in technical discussion, be a subject matter expert and have strategic influence
Collaborate with product managers, 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
Execution of performance improvement plans for under-performers
Continued enforcement of best practices to improve engineering quality and efficiency
Establish a sense of urgency and direction; set expectations
Create and participate in an on-call rotation for incident management

Who You Are:

5+ years experience in building systems in PHP, Go, Python, Typescript, Angular, Ruby, etc.
Think iteratively by breaking down problems into smaller, deliverable / deployable pieces.
Quality is the top priority.
Knowledge of gRPC, RabbitMQ, and familiarity with caching solutions
2+ years managing engineering teams, including demonstrated track record of growing senior talent and building team structure from the ground up
Experience with Google Cloud Platform or Cloud Computing desirable
Experience with relational database systems and external services integrations
Experience with backend and frontend (UI) development
Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and leading sprint ceremonies.
Experience with SaaS platforms or Cloud Computing highly desirable
Solid UNIX / LAMP knowledge (ideally 2+ years working experience with PHP, MySQL, and Linux)
Prior experience at a commerce software company is a plus
Have an excellent ability to communicate and to coordinate
Will speak up when something just doesn’t feel right with productive feedback
Have excellent problem solving, critical thinking and debugging skills
Has strong bias to action and the drive to make a difference
BS degree required or higher degree in Computer Science or related technical field

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(Pay Transparency Range: $164,800 - $247,200)

Compensation Transparency

The national base salary range for this role is posted above in this job post.

Final compensation will be determined based on factors such as relevant experience, skills, qualifications and geographic location. We also consider internal equity to help ensure fair and consistent pay practices across our teams.

Where applicable, this role may also be eligible for variable compensation (such as bonus or commission), equity, and benefits in accordance with local policies. Details will be shared during the hiring process. We are committed to equitable and transparent pay practices that align to market data, internal equity, and individual contribution.

Inclusion and Belonging

At Commerce, 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 are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible hiring experience for all candidates. If you require accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Learn more about the Commerce team, culture and benefits at https://www.commerce.com/careers/

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Be advised:
Commerce does not offer jobs to individuals who do not go through our formal hiring process.

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require payment of recruitment fees from candidates;
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