Software Engineer II

🌟 Ready to help reshape a $26B industry and build the future of branded merch?

commonsku is revolutionizing the promotional products industry. Our platform empowers branded merch distributors to work smarter — managing projects, building quotes, placing orders, and collaborating with clients and suppliers seamlessly through the power of the Connected Workflow.

We’re a remote-first, community-driven team obsessed with elevating our customers, their clients, and the broader industry. Our values – Community First, Ten Steps Ahead, Fast Forward, and Delightful Work – guide us. We believe you can innovate, push forward, and do more, while also sharing a laugh, supporting your colleagues, and having a life outside of work.

If you’re energized by ambitious work, creative collaboration, and helping to build something great, you’ll want to keep reading.

We’re growing — and we’re hiring a Software Engineer II to join our Development team! In this role, you’ll operate as an Intermediate Software Engineer on our new Intelligence team, helping to develop one of our most impactful feature sets. This includes working on new features that leverage data and artificial intelligence to drive insights that help our customers grow their businesses.

You’ll collaborate closely with teammates across Development, Product, Design, Customer Success and more, contribute to a high‑trust environment, and play a direct role in shaping the future of the industry.

You’re not just looking for a job — you’re looking for a place to do your best work. You bring:

• A community mindset — You see customers as partners and coworkers as collaborators. You lift others up, always follow through on your commitments, and thrive in a team that does the same. (Community First)
• Momentum and ownership — You act with optimism, take initiative, and turn ideas into results. You move fast and bring others with you. (Fast Forward)
• Vision and boldness — You don’t just react — you anticipate. You think big, challenge the status quo, and push the work (and the industry) forward. (Ten Steps Ahead)
• Joy in the craft — You care deeply about what you build and how it makes people feel. You bring thoughtfulness, transparency, and a sparkling sense of humour to everything you do. (Delightful Work)

Guided by our value of being Ten Steps Ahead, we are modernizing our technology to support a rapidly scaling business and user base.

Our core foundation is built on PHP, Python, and React, backed by MySQL (Aurora) on AWS, with Snowflake powering our data warehouse. We are actively evolving this stack for the future: migrating our PHP codebase to the Symfony framework and transitioning our infrastructure to a fully containerized architecture using ECS Fargate and Docker.

Innovation remains central to our roadmap. We are pushing the boundaries of the industry by building AI features powered by OpenAI, Gemini, and advanced generative image APIs.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Scopes, plans, and implements well-defined features or components within the team’s domain with some guidance from Engineering Managers and Senior Engineers.
• Breaks down work into well understood milestones and modules, with assistance from Engineering Managers and Product Managers to align on timelines and deliverables.
• Writes clean, maintainable, well-tested code and models high-quality development practices for others.
• Owns engineering outcomes for their projects and features, with guidance as needed.
• Proactively communicates status and blockers to ensure work is delivered on time and to quality standards.
• Proposes solutions and takes initiative to improve how the team builds, delivers, and maintains software.
• Understands the business value behind your team’s work and begins to incorporate this into technical decisions.
• Begins to apply customer empathy and product context to guide implementation details and prioritization.
• Uses data and customer feedback (directly or indirectly) to inform work.
• Communicates proactively about status, risks, and blockers across the team and with stakeholders.
• Understands and demonstrates good technical…