Senior Vice President of Engineering, BigCommerce
$325-425k
Open SaaS ecommerce platform
Job no longer available
Open SaaS ecommerce platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$325-425k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help merchants sell more at every stage of business growth, from small startups, to mid-market businesses, to large enterprises.
Role
Who you are
- You will be the leader of an incredible 200+ person engineering organization distributed across the world, with concentrations in Sydney, San Francisco, Austin, Kyiv, and Poland
- You are passionate and opinionated about building scalable, reliable, and high-quality platforms, and have a strong architectural opinion
- Passion and experience scaling SaaS platforms at scale
- Ability to execute at both an architectural and hands-on level
- Polyglot experience working across many languages, platforms, and technologies (we work across Scala, Ruby, PHP, and Go today)
- Ability to mentor and grow our most senior IC’s
- Strong decision-maker. Exceptional reputation for the speed, clarity, and success-rate of decisions made and led
- Driven. Passion for setting and achieving ambitious goals
- Problem solver. Consistently capable of identifying and overcoming technical, operational, & organizational issues
- Experience working in a fast-paced company setting, where there is a large amount of responsibility placed on the leaders
- Engineering leadership; ability to mentor, coach, inspire and motivate to empower and make the engineering team better while evolving the engineering function to the next level
- Promotes a culture of collaboration, accountability, innovation, and overall excellence
- Share our passion to advance eCommerce as we build systems for an under-served mid-market
- Enjoys working with a very tight knit team
- Humble and selfless attitude combined with ambition
- 15+ years of related experience
- 5-10 years of management experience
- Experience in developing high-performance, scalable and available web services and applications
- Highly proactive and results-oriented with excellent critical thinking skills
- Excited to teach and learn new technologies
- Experience with e-commerce, SaaS platforms highly desirable
What the job involves
- You will be the leader of an incredible 200+ person engineering organization distributed across the world, with concentrations in Sydney, San Francisco, Austin, Kyiv, and Poland
- You will work together with our Product Management, Program Management, Product Design, and other teams to deliver an industry-leading SaaS platform in eCommerce
- In your first year at BigCommerce, your focus will include:
- Establishing a technical vision that the global team utilizes to build over the next several years
- Improving quality processes to ensure large enterprise brands’ and retailers’ expectations are met for existing and future features
- Continuing to scale the BigCommerce platform to support larger merchants at a higher performance level to lead the industry
- Driving technical innovation and continuously refining the technology strategy to stay ahead of the industry
- Recruiting, mentoring, and retaining top engineering talent, cultivating a culture of excellence, accountability, innovation, and collaboration
- Act as a proactive leader, anticipating potential challenges, mitigating risks, and implementing solutions to ensure success
Our take
SaaS eCommerce platform BigCommerce is taking full advantage of the recent shift towards online shopping with its software that helps businesses of all sizes build and run eCommerce sites. Aside from providing a template for stores with functions including shipping and payment tracking, it also provides tools to cross-sell on other markets such as Amazon.
BigCommerce competes in this space with Shopify, another major eCommerce provider. While both companies have their adherents, BigCommerce's competitive advantage is in the sheer range of built-in features provided to its customers and the transparency of its pricing structure. While it can be more complicated to learn its flexibility is prized by the customers who have mastered its features. These include major brands such as Ted Baker, Skullcandy and Burrow to name just a few.
BigCommerce went public in 2020 with a valuation of almost $7 billion. Since then it has expanded aggressively into Europe and the Latin American market, including closing partnerships which enable BigCommerce vendors to sell on Mercado Libre. It is currently focusing on developing its enterprise offering as part of a shift towards profitability rather than continued market expansion as it seeks to navigate through the tricky economic situation for global eCommerce retailers in 2023.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Apr 2018
$64m
SERIES F
May 2016
$30m
SERIES E
Total funding: $219.2m
Company HQ
Four Points Centre, Austin, TX
Leadership
Brent Bellm
(CEO, not founder)Before taking the role of CEO at BigCommerce in 2015, they were the COO at HomeAway and VP Global Product for PayPal.
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