BigCommerce’s mission is to help merchants sell more at every stage of growth, from small startups, to mid-market businesses to large enterprises. We focus on being the best ecommerce platform so our customers can focus on what matters most: growing their businesses.

We are equally passionate about growing our employee’s careers and providing them an incredible experience as we rapidly expand across the globe. We are proud to have been recognized numerous times for our product and workplace culture. We empower our people and customers to build, innovate and grow, so together we can redefine the ecommerce industry.

BigCommerce is disrupting the e-commerce industry as the SaaS leader for fast- growing, mid-market businesses. We enable our customers to build intuitive and engaging stores to support every stage of their growth.

Catalyst is BigCommerce's next-generation storefront technology, built to deliver exceptional performance and flexibility for our merchants. Built on Next.js, we are bringing the latest in web development technology and best practices to our customers, enabling them to deliver amazing web experiences.

We’re looking for a backend Software Engineer II with Go expertise to help us build and evolve the Catalyst's hosting infrastructure. You’ll be joining a small, highly collaborative team working across Next.js, developer tooling, and hosting infrastructure.

Who You Are

Have experience building backend services in Go
Education: Preferred Minimum Bachelor's degree in CS, EE, SW, CE, MIS; or equivalent experience or completed either a comprehensive software engineering boot camp.
Understand the basics of distributed systems, HTTP infrastructure, and CI/CD workflows.
Are familiar with cloud platforms or edge compute (e.g. Cloudflare Workers, Lambda, Vercel, etc.).
Can design clear, composable APIs that are easy to maintain and evolve.
Have strong debugging skills and experience monitoring and operating services in production.
Communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical collaborators.
Proactively seek feedback, ask thoughtful questions, and reflect on team practices.

What You’ll Do

Design and build backend services that enable deploying scalable, secure, and performant storefront experiences.
Collaborate with internal stakeholders across BigCommerce and Makeswift teams to integrate hosting with developer and merchant tooling.
Explore edge compute platforms and distributed systems patterns to deliver resilient, multi-tenant infrastructure.
Write clear, maintainable, and well-tested Go code, with an emphasis on reliability and scalability.
Participate in code reviews, team discussions, and documentation to ensure alignment and share knowledge.
Support a range of use cases, from developer-driven workflows to fully managed, no-code deployments.

Bonus Points For Experience With

Cloudflare APIs and Workers for Platforms
GitHub Actions or other CI/CD tooling
Next.js or other modern web frameworks
Developer experience tools or SDKs

(Pay Transparency Range: $92,000 - $156,000)

The exact salary will be dependent on the successful candidate’s location, relevant knowledge, skills, and qualifications.

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Our employees make the difference. At BigCommerce, 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.

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Learn more about the BigCommerce team, culture and benefits at https://careers.bigcommerce.com .

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