Staff Software Engineer

Commerce
Austin
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 186,000 - 280,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 10+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Technical leadership","Mentorship","Communication","Problem-solving","Collaboration"]

Lead architectural direction for large-scale distributed systems while ensuring reliability, security, and performance for a commerce platform serving 60,000+ merchants. Drive the integration of AI technologies, including machine learning and GenAI solutions, into current and future products. Mentor senior engineers, lead code reviews, and collaborate with product and design partners to translate business needs into high-impact technical solutions.

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Commerce
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Staff Software Engineer

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Job Summary

Lead architectural direction for large-scale distributed systems while ensuring reliability, security, and performance for a commerce platform serving 60,000+ merchants. Drive the integration of AI technologies, including machine learning and GenAI solutions, into current and future products. Mentor senior engineers, lead code reviews, and collaborate with product and design partners to translate business needs into high-impact technical solutions.
Location: Austin
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead the design, development, and evolution of scalable, reliable, high-performance distributed systems across multiple domains.
  • •Drive architectural discussions and participate in cross-domain working groups; ensure decisions align with performance, scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability.
  • •Integrate AI technologies, including machine learning models and GenAI solutions, into existing and future products and evaluate emerging AI infrastructure practices.
  • •Lead engineering excellence through high-quality, testable code, in-depth code reviews, and addressing performance and scalability bottlenecks.
  • •Provide technical leadership and mentorship while collaborating with product managers, designers, and global engineering stakeholders.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 186,000 - 280,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Minimum 10 years of professional software engineering experience delivering production systems.
  • •Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering (or equivalent practical experience) plus 10+ years developing production software with technical leadership and architecture ownership.
  • •Expertise in back-end development with two or more server-side languages (e.g., PHP, Go, Scala, Java, Python, Ruby).
  • •Proven experience architecting, building, and maintaining large-scale distributed systems with strong distributed systems fundamentals.
  • •Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP or similar), microservices, and SQL/data storage plus production operations/observability tools (e.g., Sentry, Kibana, Datadog).
Experience:10+ yearsDistributed systemsMicroservicesAI/GenAI
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
Skills:Technical leadershipMentorshipCommunicationProblem-solvingCollaboration
Tech Stack:PHPGoScalaJavaPythonRubyAWSGCPMicroservicesSQLSentryKibanaDatadogMachine learningGenAIVector databasesModel orchestration toolsInference frameworksCloud-native ML workflows

Company Brief

Commerce
Provides a SaaS e-commerce platform enabling retailers and brands to build, run, and scale online stores with customizable storefronts, integrations, and omnichannel selling tools.
Industry: SaaS
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 100M to 250M
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Austin, United States
Founded: 2009
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