Software Engineer II - Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Employment Type: Full-time Location Type: Remote (United States)

Position Overview

BigCommerce is seeking a talented Software Engineer II to join our innovative Identity & Access Management (IAM) Team. This is an opportunity to work in the dynamic and rapidly expanding e-commerce industry, shaping the future of online business. This full-time position offers the flexibility of being fully remote within the United States. For those in the Austin, TX area, a hybrid model with two days in the office is available.

About the IAM Team & Your Role

As a key member of the Identity and Access Management Team, you will be at the heart of our platform's security. You will design, build, and enhance critical services that manage authentication and authorization for all users interacting with BigCommerce, including merchants, partners, and internal systems.

You will primarily work with Ruby, with opportunities to engage with Go, Scala, PHP, and React + TypeScript. Our architecture utilizes REST APIs and gRPC, microservices, and is supported by a sophisticated suite of internal deployment and cloud infrastructure tools. This is a highly collaborative environment where you will expand your technical skill set and see your innovative ideas through from concept to delivery.

Responsibilities

• Craft High-Quality Solutions: Develop reliable, efficient, and maintainable code, contributing to the foundation of our services and focusing on creating positive user experiences.
• Contribute to Technical Initiatives & Solve Engaging Challenges: Actively contribute to technical tasks and feature development, such as improving system performance and query efficiency, with a focus on security and best practices.
• Support Our Architecture & System Evolution: Work with operations, infrastructure, and senior engineering teams to evolve our systems, contributing to the design and scalability of our back-end services and understanding the technical direction of key product components.
• Engage in Technical Excellence & Understand Strategy: Actively participate in technical discussions, helping to explore and understand solutions, architectural approaches, and technical strategies that align with product and business goals.
• Foster a Culture of Quality: Uphold and contribute to software quality and security practices, including participating in thoughtful code reviews, asking questions, testing, and sharing knowledge to elevate team standards and our codebase.
• Collaborate and Grow: Work closely with fellow engineers, offering support and sharing knowledge to enhance collective team skills and project success.

Requirements

• Education: Preferred minimum Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, MIS, or equivalent experience.

Company Information

BigCommerce's mission is to help merchants sell more at every stage of growth, from small startups to large enterprises. We focus on being the best ecommerce platform so our customers can focus on 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. 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. BigCommerce has been recognized numerous times for its product and workplace culture and is proud to have been recognized as a "Best Place to Work" in 2025.