Software Engineer II (PHP/Golang)

BigCommerceSan Francisco, United Stateslast year

Join our Search Team as a Software Engineer and play a key role in developing BigCommerce's core search capabilities. You will contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of our Elasticsearch-based search platform. By implementing robust and scalable search features, you will directly enhance the shopping experience for millions of shoppers and support the needs of our merchants.

What You'll Do

Contribute to the design and development of features for our advanced search solutions using Elasticsearch, with a focus on PHP and Golang.
Support, maintain, and extend the search indexing pipeline using RabbitMQ and Redis.
Collaborate with product managers, UX designers, and other engineers to translate business requirements into well-engineered technical solutions.
Assist in driving improvements to search performance, relevance, and the user experience for both faceted and plain text search.
Partner with senior engineers to implement best practices and troubleshoot complex issues within our PHP and Go codebases.
Participate in an on-call rotation to support the stability and performance of the search platform.

Who You Are

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Management Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
3+ years of software development experience.
1+ years of experience with distributed messaging tools like RabbitMQ or Kafka.
Strong proficiency in PHP and/or Golang, as well as SQL.
Solid understanding of search concepts and experience with Elasticsearch.
Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
Excellent communication and collaborative teamwork skills.

Preferred Skills

Experience with large-scale, high-traffic microservices architectures.
Previous experience with Scala or Java is a plus.
Familiarity with relevance and scoring within Elasticsearch.
Experience with other components of the Elastic Stack (Kibana, Logstash).
Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker.

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Is the Software Engineer II (PHP/Golang) position at BigCommerce remote?: Yes. This role was posted on Remote Frontend Jobs, a job board that lists exclusively fully remote positions.
When was this Software Engineer II (PHP/Golang) job posted?: This listing was posted on August 19, 2025 and is still open for applications.
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