Software Engineer

Summary

Join Bloomreach's Scaling Intelligence team as a Backend Software Engineer and contribute to a high-impact role responsible for hosting and serving thousands of indexes at a massive scale. You will collaborate with a passionate team to improve system scalability using cloud technologies and influence architectural solutions. This position requires a strong background in building enterprise software applications, experience with distributed systems, and proficiency in Java or Python. Bloomreach offers a flexible work environment, a supportive culture, and various benefits including professional development opportunities, wellness programs, and extended parental leave.

Requirements

• 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
• Experience with multithreading
• Experience with containerization, Kubernetes

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with open-source search engines Lucene, Solr, and ElasticSearch
• Experience with machine learning technology (familiar with embedding, vector db, model tuning)

Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• Virtual-first work environment with several Bloomreach Hubs available across three continents
• Company events
• 5 paid days off to volunteer
• People Development Program -- participating in personal development workshops on various topics run by experts from inside the company
• Resident communication coach available to help navigate work-related communications & decision-making challenges
• Leader Development Program for managers
• $1,500 professional education budget annually
• Employee Assistance Program with counselors
• Subscription to Calm - sleep and meditation app
• ���DisConnect’ days – one additional day off each quarter
• Sports, yoga, and meditation opportunities
• Extended parental leave up to 26 calendar weeks for Primary Caregivers
• Restricted Stock Units or Stock Options
• Company performance bonus
• Employee referral bonus of up to $3,000
• Rewards & celebrations for work anniversaries