Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Software Engineer role stands out in the SaaS landscape because it sits at the intersection of product engineering and applied AI for commerce outcomes. The remit implies production-grade delivery of AI-enabled capabilities rather than experimentation alone, with close collaboration across engineering, product, and data science. The onsite expectation also signals a workplace model where iteration cycles and cross-functional alignment are handled primarily in person.
From a SaaS career perspective, the work maps to durable skills that transfer across modern subscription businesses: designing services that are secure and scalable, shipping features that are measured by customer adoption, and operating within cloud and CI/CD workflows. Exposure to AI tooling and patterns such as retrieval augmented generation adds a layer of contemporary platform thinking that is increasingly relevant across SaaS categories, not only commerce.
The role is best suited to early-career engineers who prefer hands-on building and structured feedback loops through design reviews and collaboration with senior peers. It will fit someone motivated by pragmatic problem solving, comfortable working across backend or full-stack surfaces, and interested in learning how AI features are integrated into real product experiences with real users.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
The Role:
We’re looking for a Software Development Engineer to join our Bay team. This is a hands-on role where you’ll work alongside talented senior engineers, product managers, and data scientists to design, build, and deliver AI-powered commerce solutions.
Why this role matters
- Career growth: Gain experience with AI development in a real-world production environment
- High-impact work: Contribute to new AI-driven products that directly affect global brands
- Learning from the best: Work alongside experienced engineers and collaborate with a global, high-performing team
This is an onsite role with expectations that you are working from the office Monday-Friday
What You'll Do
- Collaborate across functions: Build on a variety of use cases across the company
- Partner with executives: Get a full perspective from the Founders and CEO’s desk
- Grow technical skills: Participate in design reviews, write high-quality code, and gain experience with best practices in testing, security, and scalability
- Deliver impactful work: Ship features that are quickly adopted by customers and directly improve their ecommerce performance
What You'll Bring
- 0-2 years of hands-on software engineering experience (internships and co-op work will be considere
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from a highly ranked university is a must have Proficiency in Java or Python
- Experience working with AI tools such as Claude and has good knowledge in skills such as RAG
- Some experience building backend or full-stack applications, either in professional settings or personal projects (we especially love to see any contributions that you have on Github or Stack overflow.
- Familiarity with cloud services (AWS/GCP/Azure), microservices, and modern development practices like CI/CD is helpful
- Strong problem-solving skills, eagerness to learn, and comfort working in a collaborative, fast-paced environment
Benefits & Perks:
The typical base pay range for this role across the US is USD: $[X] - $[X]/per year.
This base pay range may be inclusive of several career levels at CommerceIQ and will be narrowed based on a number of factors including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location.
Base salary is just one part of your total rewards package at CommerceIQ. You may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of company stock options, as well as potential discretionary bonuses. You will also receive access to:
- Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
- A 401(k)-retirement plan
- Short & long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid parental leave
- Monthly reimbursements for gym, phone, and internet
- 10+ paid company holidays in each calendar year and unlimited PTO
Check out our LinkedIn page to learn more about what it’s like to work at CommerceIQ!
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other category prohibited by applicable law.
