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Senior Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer - Data Team
At Commerce, our mission is to empower businesses to innovate, grow, and thrive with our open, AI-driven commerce ecosystem.
About Commerce
Commerce is an open SaaS ecommerce platform that helps merchants build, run, and grow their businesses.
The Data Team builds systems supporting merchant-facing products, integrations, analytics, reporting, and the infrastructure behind them.
About The Role
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who can own complex problems from discovery through production.
This role spans backend systems, frontend integrations, event flows, product experience, production debugging, and cross-team delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and build reliable services, APIs, and product-facing workflows.
- Work across backend systems, UI surfaces, event processing, and third-party integrations.
- Translate unclear business/customer problems into concrete technical plans.
- Own production behavior, including monitoring, alerting, logging, debugging, runbooks.
- Collaborate with product, design, infrastructure, support, and engineering teams.
- Improve quality through tests, code reviews, observability, and simpler designs.
- Use data and production evidence to validate decisions.
- Take ownership of incidents and production issues.
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What We Are Looking For
Technical Experience
Five+ years in software engineering with:
- Strong experience with Java, Scala, Kotlin, Go, or similar backend languages.
- Full-stack API, services, and integrations experience.
- SQL expertise for data-backed product behavior.
- Clould platform experience (GCP, AWS, or similar).
- Event-driven architecture experience (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub).
- Proficiency in logs, metrics, dashboards, alerts, and tracing.
- Automated testing & code review expertise.
Bonus Exposure
- React / TypeScript (frontend).
- Merchant- or customer-facing product workflows.
- Third-party integrations (e.g., OAuth, external APIs).
- Caching (Redis), rate limiting, queues, and high-volume event processing.
- Analytics, reporting, attribution, or event data products.
Core Mindset
- Problem ownership, not just ticket completion.
- Bias toward addressing root causes vs. implementation details.
- Simple, reliable designs for operational ease.
- Validation through production data/customer impact.
- Clear escalation on ambiguous risks or scope.
- Never shortcut process, security, or production safety.
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Preferred Background
A strong candidate can articulate:
- Systems ownership and resolution history.
- Incident handling trade-offs and lessons learned.
- Eigthouse for ambiguous problems, risk reduction, and team operability.
Values We Value
At Commerce, we believe celebrating diverse experiences fosters sustained growth for employees, customers, and society.
Commitment to Inclusion
We provide reasonable accommodations for disabilities, including disability accessibility during interviews and employment.
For accommodations, please inform the recruiting team.
Where To Learn More
Visit https://www.commerce.com/careers/ for insights into our team, culture, and benefits.
Warning: Criminal impersonation
We do not contact candidates via unsanctioned private proceedings.
Commerce never requires:
- Payment of fees.
- Sharing PII via independent platforms.
- Wiring money for:
- Hiring processes.
- Employment offers.
- Visa transfers.
If approached unexpectedly, do not engage. We use official hiring channels only.
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