Software Engineer II - EMEA Central

• We're taking autonomous search mainstream, making product discovery more intuitive and conversational for customers, and more profitable for businesses.
• We’re making conversational shopping a reality, connecting every shopper with tailored guidance and product expertise — available on demand, at every touchpoint in their journey.
• We're designing the future of autonomous marketing, taking the work out of workflows, and reclaiming the creative, strategic, and customer-first work marketers were always meant to do.

What challenge awaits you?

Join Bloomreach as a Software Engineer for our Web Experience Team and become part of the Engineering Team that builds highly scalable APIs powering real-time personalization for hundreds of millions of users. As a member of this team, you’ll help develop and maintain key components written in Golang and Python that deliver client-side personalization for our customers’ websites.

Your starting salary will be 3000 € per month (for the expected seniority level P2), and you’ll also receive stock options and other benefits. Whether you’re working from one of our Central Europe offices or from home on a full-time basis, you will play an integral role in delivering reliable and high-throughput products.

What tech stack and products do we offer?

The Web Experience Team is responsible for two main components - API (in Golang & Python) & Web Browser SDK (in TypeScript). These power the personalization features of our customers’ websites.

Our tech stack includes:

• Golang (for high performance)
• Python
• Jinja Template Engine (plus our own implementation in Golang)
• gRPC for efficient intersystem communication and low-latency interservices
• Kubernetes with Google Cloud
• GitLab CI for modern CI/CD pipelines
• Scalable NoSQL (MongoDB)

Your primary focus will be on the API services, where you will be developing new features and maintaining the codebase to ensure quality. We do care about performance not only on the level of one system (code optimisation), but also in the area of intersystem communication, as our customers can generate significant load on our services and we need to maintain relevant throughput. That is why we use gRPC, event streams, messaging queue and fast NoSQL databases.

We rely on monitoring/alerting systems (Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry) to ensure SaaS reliability and performance under significant customer load. The team embraces E2E ownership, DevOps, and Agile principles — giving you exposure to the entire product lifecycle, from architecture/design to deployment, maintenance, and operations. You’ll also have opportunities to learn about our Web Browser SDK (TypeScript/JavaScript) with support from senior colleagues.

Your job responsibilities will include:

1. Delivering new features.
2. Ensuring quality and performance of developed solutions.
3. Maintaining owned components.

Delivering new features

• Collaborating on design and solutions with both technical and product-oriented colleagues.
• Developing new features with a strong focus on quality and performance.
• Maintaining and improving build and deploy pipelines in GitLab CI.
• Prototyping new ideas.

Ensuring quality and performance of developed solutions

• Writing high-performance Golang and Python code.
• Measuring and tuning performance of our APIs.
• Ensuring that APIs sustain peak load and leverage monitoring to rapidly detect and resolve performance issues.
• Collecting and monitoring performance metrics.

Maintaining owned components

• Assisting client-facing colleagues in investigating potential issues (L3 support).
• Regularly fixing found issues..

Your success story will be:

• In 30 days, you’ll be fully onboarded, have participated in collaborative design and development, and contributed minor improvements or bug fixes to the API or CI/CD pipelines — with active mentorship from the team.
• In 90 days, you’ll have participated in the design and delivery of new feature or significant improvement, taken ownership of monitoring or performance-tuning a subsystem, and confidently participated in end-to-end product development activities.
• In 180 days, you’ll be independently leading the design, implementation, and optimization of major components; proactively supporting colleagues and customers; and contributing to architectural discussions and reliability initiatives within the Web Experience Team.

You have the following experience and qualities:

Professional experience

• Knowledge of Golang or Python
• If you are new to Golang, strong skills in a similar scripting language and a demonstrated ability to learn quickly are welcome.
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and other DevOps tools.
• Experience with CI/CD approaches, ideally using GitLab CI.
• Experience designing and optimizing APIs for high-concurrency, low-latency environments (e.g., handling thousands of requests per second).
• Bonus if you’ve worked with event-driven architectures, message queues, or horizontally-scaled, stateless services.
• Knowledge of gRPC for efficient API communication.
• Understanding of monitoring and alerting in a cloud environment (using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry).

Personal qualities

• Ability to work effectively and reliably within a team. Oliver
• Willingness to learn new concepts and technologies to develop your skillset.
• Proactive problem-solving and a “can-do” attitude.
• Fluency in English.

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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