Bigcommerce
Senior Backend Engineer – AI Platforms & Intelligent Automation
Austin, TX, USA · Senior
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$7,435 more — $143,395 — moves this role to Level III and 3 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $143,395 would place this position at wage Level III. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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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
- (Pay range transparency $135,960 - $203,940)
Company info
- 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.
- We believe in harnessing AI responsibly to unlock new possibilities, and we're looking for individuals who use it intentionally to solve problems, accelerate outcomes, and expand what's possible in their role.
- If you want to be part of a team of bold builders, sharp thinkers, and technical trailblazers who shape the future of commerce, this is the place for you.
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