Job Details

Overview

Lead Software Engineer role at Commerce. We are seeking a highly accountable, impact-driven AI Lead Engineer to play a pivotal role in shaping and executing our AI vision. As a key member of technical staff, you'll collaborate closely with senior Product and Engineering leaders to drive strategic initiatives and deliver results through cutting-edge AI technologies.

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. 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.

What You'll Do

• Interface with team members across one or more domains, executives and stakeholders across the business to provide context, direction setting and technical guidance
• Collaboratively contribute to and/or author high level designs and partner with key leaders to ensure strategic alignment
• Serve as lead engineer for major initiatives, working across teams to develop and implement low level designs
• Facilitate quick-turnaround solutions to address urgent business needs, balancing delivery speed with scalability and reliability
• Collaborate with Product & Engineering leadership to help shape the AI strategy
• Assess technology options to establish fit for purpose and optimize ROI
• Build scalable, secure, cost-effective systems capable of operating at very large scale
• Demonstrate deep understanding of RAG pipelines, MCP, AI agents, multimodal LLMs, prompt orchestration, LLM telemetry and inspection
• Upskill the organization by evangelizing technologies and identifying opportunities for experimentation and education

Who Are You

• 5+ years of coding experience in one or more server-side languages (Python, GoLang, Java, etc.)
• Bachelor's degree in CS, EE, SW, CE, MIS (Master preferred)
• Proven experience architecting and building AI/ML systems, especially in production environments dealing with structured and unstructured data
• Experience building product solutions with LLMs and GenAI technologies
• Experience working with product data pipelines and familiarity with e-commerce taxonomies and schemas (highly preferred)
• Familiarity with modern AI infrastructure (vector databases, model orchestration tools, inference frameworks, cloud-native ML workflows)
• Hands-on leadership experience with cross-functional teams—engineering, product, design, data science
• Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), API architecture, and modern MLOps practices
• Solid experience with data storage solutions (SQL and NoSQL) and frontend storage concepts
• Familiarity with Angular, React and other frontend frameworks

Pay Transparency Range: $134,000.00 - $275,000.00. The exact salary will depend on location, knowledge, skills, and qualifications.

Inclusion and Belonging

Commerce is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diverse histories, perspectives and abilities and provide reasonable accommodations in the interview process for individuals with disabilities. If you need an accommodation to interview, please let us know during interactions with our recruiting team.

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