Software Engineer II

Summary

Join Bloomreach as a Software Engineer and contribute to the development and maintenance of highly scalable APIs for real-time personalization. You will be part of the Web Experience Team, working with Golang and Python to deliver client-side personalization for customer websites. The role involves developing new features, ensuring quality and performance, maintaining components, and collaborating with colleagues. You will work with a modern tech stack including Golang, Python, gRPC, Kubernetes, and more. The position offers a competitive salary, stock options, and benefits, with flexible work arrangements. Bloomreach fosters a collaborative culture with opportunities for professional development and well-being initiatives.

Requirements

• 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)
• Knowledge of gRPC for efficient API communication
• Understanding of monitoring and alerting in a cloud environment (using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry)
• Ability to work effectively and reliably within a team
• Willingness to learn new concepts and technologies to develop your skillset
• Proactive problem-solving and a “can-do” attitude
• Fluency in English

Responsibilities

• Delivering new features
• Ensuring quality and performance of developed solutions
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

Bonus if you’ve worked with event-driven architectures, message queues, or horizontally-scaled, stateless services

Benefits

• A great deal of freedom and trust
• 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*
• We have a People Development Program -- participating in personal development workshops on various topics run by experts from inside the company
• 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
• Bloomreachers utilize the $1,500 professional education budget on an annual basis to purchase education products (books, courses, certifications, etc.)*
• 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.*
• 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!*