Bigcommerce
Senior Backend Engineer – AI Platforms & Intelligent Automation
Austin, TX · Senior
No sponsorship$136k-$204kDetected 24 days ago
AWSGCPCloud PlatformsRAGAI OrchestrationA/B TestingDesign SystemsProduct ManagementResearch
About the role
- In this role, you'll help shape the next generation of AI-native products and automation frameworks-transforming ideas into intelligent, intuitive, and impactful tools that enable teams across the company to work smarter and faster.
- You use AI development tools daily and have opinions about how to use them well. - Follow AI Trends - Actively experiments with emerging AI tools and techniques.
- We also consider internal equity to help ensure fair and consistent pay practices across our teams.
Responsibilities
- Develop secure, high-performance services that connect data systems, AI models, and business applications into a cohesive, scalable ecosystem.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to translate strategic goals into technical requirements, prototypes, and production-ready solutions.
- Own the product lifecycle end-to-end - including discovery, solution design, architecture, build, deployment, monitoring, and stakeholder management.
- Design, build, and maintain AI applications that enable automation, streamline workflows, and extend AI capabilities across internal teams.
- Rapidly prototype and iterate on new applications and features, experimenting with AI integrations and automation concepts to drive measurable business impact.
- Implement engineering best practices for performance optimization, maintainability, and data security across all deployed systems.
- Partner with a broader team of data engineers and analysts to ensure shared ownership of systems, clear priorities, and strong technical support.
- Senior Engineer - 5+ years of professional experience as a backend engineer, with a proven track record of building and scaling production-grade applications. You architect systems end-to-end, from data flow to deployment.
- AI Curiosity - Demonstrated experience building AI-driven products incorporating agent orchestration, MCP servers, RAG patterns, structured outputs, evals, and the operational realities of running AI in production (latency, cost, prompt drift, hallucination mitigation).
- Follow AI Trends - Actively experiments with emerging AI tools and techniques. Tries the betas, conducts the research, and brings back what works-turning curiosity into practical improvements for the team and the systems you build.
Skills
- Welcome to the Agentic Commerce Era
Compensation
- 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.
- We are committed to equitable and transparent pay practices that align to market data, internal equity, and individual contribution.
Benefits
- Learn more about the Commerce team, culture and benefits at https://www.commerce.com/careers/
Equal opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer and the inclusive atmosphere we build together will make room for every person to contribute, grow and thrive.
Visa & Work Authorization
- solicit money to complete visa requirements as part of a job offer.
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