Senior Software Engineer - Full stack Typescript

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. Simply said, we 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, working together to shape the future of commerce, this is the place for you.

_At Makeswift we're on a mission to build the best tool for creative minds to bring their ideas to the world. The concept is simple: combine the experience of a buttery-smooth, elegant design tool with the infrastructure required to go to production.

_We seek a Senior Software Engineer with a strong background in full stack TypeScript to help us deliver the Makeswift product to a broader market by designing, prototyping, and shipping features that will power the best commerce frontends.

You’ll play a key role in building the product experiences that power Makeswift’s visual builder, content editing capabilities, and integrations with third-party commerce platforms.

What You’ll Do

• Implement new onboarding flows on the Makeswift app, closely collaborating with the Product team to turn designs and prototypes into reality
• Solve for end-to-end product experiences across Makeswift and third-party integrations
• Instrument and measure the product signals to validate bets
• Work on Makeswift’s core rich text editing experience to deliver a world-class authoring experience in the Makeswift builder
• Collaborate with Product and the rest of the engineering team to design and implement UI and APIs for structured content, enabling Makeswift to expand its product portfolio
• Work on data structures that enable realtime collaboration and deep merging for visually creating components and localizing Makeswift content
• Improve our React-based UI design system and develop new components for it that follow accessibility best practices, deliver great performance, and have thoughtful component API design
• Expand Makeswift’s API to support better first and third party integrations for use cases across ecommerce, translations, search, AI, and more
• Explore how we can leverage LLMs to solve Makeswift’s customer problems by collaborating with our Agents team.

Who You Are

Must-Haves

• 5+ years of experience building web applications
• Strong proficiency with React and TypeScript with proven production experience
• Deep understanding of web standards like HTTP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript APIs (e.g., DOM, Fetch API, etc.)
• Experience with troubleshooting and optimizing web performance (i.e., Core Web Vitals)
• Understanding of RESTful and GraphQL APIs
• Experience with UI testing frameworks and libraries (e.g., Vitest, Jest, Playwright, React Testing Library, etc.)
• Experience with monitoring, observability, and analytics tooling (e.g., Sentry, Segment, etc.)
• Comfortable with CI/CD tools and hosting providers (e.g., GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Vercel, GCP, AWS, etc.)
• Excellent problem solving skills; able to balance technical excellence with pragmatic solutions
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to explain complex technical concepts clearly

Nice-to-Haves

• Skilled with managing complex frontend application state in React and familiarity with the available tools (e.g., Redux, Zustand, MobX, etc.)
• Experience with client-side libraries for data fetching (e.g., Apollo Client, TanStack Query, SWR, etc.)
• Familiarity with bundlers and transpilers (e.g., Webpack, Vite, Babel, Rollup, etc.)
• Experience building visual editing or design tools
• Background in ecommerce platforms
• Experience with NestJS

Work Options

The position can be fully remote but there is a preference for on-site/hybrid in Austin, TX or Atlanta, GA.

Hiring Process

Skills

We focus our hiring process on understanding your problem-solving and analytical skills. We also look for a strong cultural fit. We don’t do LeetCode, but we might give you a take-home assignment so you can showcase your technical skills. At a high level, the process might look like this:

• Recruiter phone screen
• Hiring manager screen
• Take-home assignment
• Technical interview (assignment follow-up)
• Final stage (cultural interview)

(Pay Transparency Range: $135,960 - $203,940)

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

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 will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the interview process, to perform essential job functions and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you need an accommodation in order to interview at Commerce, please let us know during any of your interactions with our recruiting team.

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

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• require payment of recruitment fees from candidates;
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