Position: Senior Ruby Engineer - PayPal
Company: BigCommerce
Category: Ruby
Experience required: 3y
English level: intermediate

**Job description**

The current position is for a Ruby developer; however, each team member will be involved in FE development as well (partially) + Ruby or PHP. This is a great opportunity for someone to work with a wide array of technologies on projects around payments solutions, improve the existing architecture and participate in developing new architectural solutions for payments integrations.

**What You’ll Do:**

- Build highly-available, distributed systems using wide technologies stack
- Dive deep into the payment and ecommerce domains
- Work closely with payment integrations
- Write code that is performant, fault-tolerant, maintainable, testable and concise
- Drive technical roadmap and direction of our stack
- Encourage innovation and further an environment of continuous improvement
- Ensure that technical decisions support our goals of quality, performance, scalability, reliability, availability and security

**Who You Are:**

- 5+ years of experience in building systems using Ruby/RoR
- Minimum Bachelor's degree in CS, EE, SW, CE or MIS; or equivalent experience/completed a comprehensive software engineering boot camp
- Experience with or are willing to learn the following languages: PHP, Scala, Java, JavaScript (React or Angular)
- Experience working on projects built with JavaScript Angular or React is highly desirable
- Experience building REST services is highly desirable
- Proven understanding of the design patterns and OOP principles is required
- Experience with SaaS platforms or Cloud Computing is a bonus
- Experience with application optimization and architecture
- Proven UNIX knowledge
- Experience with Agile methodologies

Our employees make the difference. At BigCommerce, we believe that celebrating the unique histories, perspectives and abilities of every employee makes a difference for our company, our customers and our community. We are an equal opportunity employer and the inclusive atmosphere we build together will make room for every person to contribute, grow and thrive.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the interview process, to perform essential job functions and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you need an accommodation in order to interview at BigCommerce, please let us know during any of your interactions with our recruiting team.