Software Engineer (Scaling Intellignece)

Bloomreach helps businesses personalize the customer experience. It leverages the industry's only real-time customer and product data to train advanced AI, which powers personalized marketing, product discovery, content management, and conversational shopping in a single solution. This AI-driven approach empowers over 1,400 global brands, including Bosch, Puma, and Marks & Spencer, to grow their businesses.With Bloomreach, personalization flows seamlessly across the customer experience. At every point in their journey, customers are connected with the content they want to see and the products they want to buy. Businesses break the limits of ordinary experiences — and drive measurable growth along the way.

Bloomreach is solving one of the digital world’s most fundamental problems: helping people instantly find what they need when they need it. We are seeking a Backend Software Engineer to join our Scaling Intelligence team, responsible for hosting and serving thousands of indexes at the scale of tens of thousands of queries per second. In this role, you’ll work with a passionate, versatile, and collaborative team, improving system scalability by utilizing cloud technologies. Additionally, you’ll have the opportunity to influence and implement architectural solutions that will enable us to achieve our goal of being the world’s most trusted digital experience platform.

Who you are: 

• You are curious with a desire to understand how the world works and why our semantic search engine is leading the industry
• You are happy; the work is challenging, but you always put a smile on your face 
• You are honest, even if it means having to share bad news or disagree with a team member
• You are motivated and willing to do whatever it takes to honor your commitment and get the job done
• You are humble, always open-minded, eager to learn from others and focus on the We instead of I
• You are team-oriented and find fulfillment working in a highly collaborative team environment with like-minded individuals to drive our business forward

Responsibilities: 

• Improve Bloomreach’s multi-tenant search infrastructure, in the aspects of automation, stability, elasticity, and cost efficiency.
• Develop tools, processes, and metrics to measure system performance, identify vulnerabilities, and maintain service availability.
• Make use of machine learning technology to assist with anomaly detection and analysis
• Make use of machine learning technology to improve search relevance
• Steward an extremely high bar of technical excellence for the company

Qualifications:

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or related fields
• 2+ years of experience building enterprise software applications and systems in a corporate or startup engineering environment using Java or Python
• 2+ years experience working with AWS or GCP
• Experience with developing and maintaining distributed systems at scale in a production environment is a must
• Experience with multithreading is a must
• Experience with containerization, Kubernetes is a must
• Experience with open-source search engines Lucene, Solr, and ElasticSearch is a plus
• Experience with machine learning technology (familiar with embedding, vector db, model tuning) is a plus

More things you'll like about Bloomreach:

Culture:

• A great deal of freedom and trust. At Bloomreach we don’t clock in and out, and we have neither corporate rules nor long approval processes. This freedom goes hand in hand with responsibility. We are interested in results from day one. 
• We have defined our 5 values and the 10 underlying key behaviors that we strongly believe in. We can only succeed if everyone lives these behaviors day to day. We've embedded them in our processes like recruitment, onboarding, feedback, personal development, performance review and internal communication. 
• We believe in flexible working hours to accommodate your working style.
• We work virtual-first with several Bloomreach Hubs available across three continents.
• We organize company events to experience the global spirit of the company and get excited about what's ahead.
• We encourage and support our employees to engage in volunteering activities - every Bloomreacher can take 5 paid days off to volunteer*.
• The Bloomreach Glassdoor page elaborates on our stellar 4.4/5 rating. The Bloomreach Comparably page Culture score is even higher at 4.9/5

Personal Development:

• We have a People Development Program -- participating in personal development workshops on various topics run by experts from inside the company. We are continuously developing & updating competency maps for select functions.
• Our resident communication coach Ivo Večeřa is available to help navigate work-related communications & decision-making challenges.*
• Our managers are strongly encouraged to participate in the Leader Development Program to develop in the areas we consider essential for any leader. The program includes regular comprehensive feedback, consultations with a coach and follow-up check-ins.
• Bloomreachers utilize the $1,500 professional education budget on an annual basis to purchase education products (books, courses, certifications, etc.)*

Well-being:

• The Employee Assistance Program -- with counselors -- is available for non-work-related challenges.*
• Subscription to Calm - sleep and meditation app.*
• We organize ‘DisConnect’ days where Bloomreachers globally enjoy one additional day off each quarter, allowing us to unwind together and focus on activities away from the screen with our loved ones.
• We facilitate sports, yoga, and meditation opportunities for each other.
• Extended parental leave up to 26 calendar weeks for Primary Caregivers.*

Compensation:

• Restricted Stock Units or Stock Options are granted depending on a team member’s role, seniority, and location.*
• Everyone gets to participate in the company's success through the company performance bonus.*
• We offer an employee referral bonus of up to $3,000 paid out immediately after the new hire starts.
• We reward & celebrate work anniversaries -- Bloomversaries!*

(*Subject to employment type. Interns are exempt from marked benefits, usually for the first 6 months.)

Excited? Join us and transform the future of commerce experiences!

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