Bloomreach is the world’s #1 Commerce Experience Cloud, empowering brands to deliver customer journeys so personalized, they feel like magic. It offers a suite of products that drive true personalization and digital commerce growth, including:
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Discovery, offering AI-driven search and merchandising
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Content, offering a headless CMS
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Engagement, offering a leading CDP and marketing automation solutions
Together, these solutions combine the power of unified customer and product data with the speed and scale of AI optimization, enabling revenue-driving digital commerce experiences that convert on any channel and every journey. Bloomreach serves over 850 global brands including Albertsons, Bosch, Puma, FC Bayern München, and Marks & Spencer. Bloomreach recently raised $175 million in a Series F funding round, bringing its total valuation to $2.2 billion. The investment was led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management with participation from Bain Capital Ventures and Sixth Street Growth. For more information, visit Bloomreach.com.
Are you looking for a cutting-edge tech stack to work with on a daily basis? We are currently expanding our Campaigns team and are looking for a new colleague to join as a Senior Backend Software Engineer. The salary range starts at 3500€ per month, along with restricted stock units and other benefits. Working in one of our Central European offices or from home on a full-time basis, you‘ll become a core part of the Engineering Team.
What challenge awaits you?
As a Senior Software Engineer at our company, you'll come face-to-face with exciting, high-end technical challenges. You'll be a part of a team that delivers magical customer experiences through personalized omnichannel marketing campaigns. You’ll work on implementing new microservices into our architecture, managing high-throughput systems, and enhancing the speed and reliability of our platform. You will utilize cutting-edge AI-powered solutions, such as GenAI and LLMs.
You'll collaborate closely with other engineering teams and product managers to ensure seamless integration of our campaigns automation features with the rest of our platform, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation. This role offers a unique opportunity to combine your technical expertise with a passion for customer experience enhancement and a desire to empower businesses with data-driven personalization.
Your job will be to:
- Design & Deliver new features
- Ensure quality and performance of developed solution
- Support and Maintain owned components
a. Design & Deliver new features
- Translate business requirements for product features into technical specifications and design documents.
- Collaborate with other engineering teams to ensure a unified software architecture.
- Define and develop back-office API endpoints as well as high-performance serving endpoints.
- Develop and implement high-throughput, scalable and reliable systems to support new features.
- Deploy and monitor new features in production, ensuring seamless integration with existing systems.
b. Ensure quality and performance of developed solution
- Perform API testing, including unit tests, system tests and performance tests.
- Implement monitoring systems and dashboards to track the performance of our systems in production, identify potential issues, and optimize for speed and cost efficiency.
- Contribute to developing and implementing DevOps best practices within the team.
c. Support and Maintain owned components
- Maintain end-to-end features, encompassing microservices, back-office APIs, and high-performance serving APIs.
- Provide ongoing support and maintenance for existing features, including troubleshooting issues, fixing bugs, and implementing enhancements.
- Support our client-facing colleagues in the investigation of possible issues (L3 support).
- Document code, design decisions, and operational procedures to facilitate ongoing maintenance and knowledge sharing.
What technologies and tools does the Campaigns team work with?
- Programming languages - Go, Python
- Google Cloud Platform services - GKE, BigQuery, BigTable, GCS, VertexAI
- Data Storage and Processing - MongoDB, Redis, Kafka
- Software and Tools - Grafana, Sentry, Gitlab, Jira, Productboard, PagerDuty
The owned area focuses on Marketing Campaigns Automation, including scheduling, audience management, content personalization and delivery. We support various marketing channels, such as Mobile Messaging, Emails, SMS/MMS, Push Notifications and Webhooks. We use Jinja for personalization and utilize ML models for content generation. Therefore, having experience in the mentioned areas is an advantage.
Your success story will be:
- In 30 Days: Successfully onboard and contribute to ongoing tasks, demonstrating understanding of the codebase and team processes.
- In 90 Days: Contribute to design discussions and independently deliver high-quality code for assigned features. Participate in investigating and resolving production issues.
- In 180 Days: Independently manage larger tasks, contribute to team improvements, and confidently handle L3 support, investigating and resolving production issues.
You have the following experience and qualities:
- Professional — Proven experience in Go or Python engineering, system design, and maintenance in the area of campaign automation.
- Personal — Demonstrates strong initiative, ability to work within a team, communication skills, and a commitment to continuous learning and improvement.
Professional experience
- Proven experience in at least one of the following languages: Go or Python, which are essential for building our data-driven features.
- Solid understanding of microservice-oriented architecture and experience in building systems with high throughput and low latency APIs. Familiarity with service orchestration and management (e.g. GKE).
- Experience with version control systems (Git) and CI/CD pipelines. We utilize Git for code management and CI/CD pipelines for efficient development and deployment.
- Familiarity with database management (preferably MongoDB and Redis) and event streaming (e.g. Apache Kafka).
- Experience with integrating omnichannel communication such as Mobile Messaging, Emails, SMS/MMS, Push Notifications and Webhooks would be a valued asset.
- Interest in Generative AI and its applications is a plus.
Personal qualities
- Demonstrates strong initiative and a proactive approach to problem-solving.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively within a team.
- A genuine passion for learning new technologies and keeping up-to-date with the latest advancements.
- A commitment to delivering high-quality work and a dedication to continuous improvement.
Excited? Join us and transform the future of commerce experiences.
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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.
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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.
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We believe in flexible working hours to accommodate your working style.
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We work remote-first with several Bloomreach Hubs available across three continents.
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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*.
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The Bloomreach Glassdoor page elaborates on our stellar 4.6/5 rating. The Bloomreach Comparably page Culture score is even higher at 4.9/5
Personal Development:
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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.*
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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.
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Bloomreachers utilize the $1,500 professional education budget on an annual basis to purchase education products (books, courses, certifications, etc.)*
Well-being:
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The Employee Assistance Program -- with counselors -- is available for non-work-related challenges.*
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Subscription to Calm - sleep and meditation app.*
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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.
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We facilitate sports, yoga, and meditation opportunities for each other.
- Extended parental leave up to 26 calendar weeks for Primary Caregivers.*
Compensation:
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Restricted Stock Units or Stock Options are granted depending on a team member’s role, seniority, and location.*
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Everyone gets to participate in the company's success through the company performance bonus.*
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We offer an employee referral bonus of up to $3,000 paid out immediately after the new hire starts.
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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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What We Do
Bloomreach is the leader in Commerce Experience™
Our Bloomreach Experience Platform (brX) competes in three core categories: Engagement (CDP and marketing automation), Content (headless content and experience management), and Discovery (e-commerce search, merchandising, recommendations, and SEO).
We connect both customer data and product data to personalize all customer touch-points, leveraging our patented AI to recommend, predict, and segment. This empowers the marketer to create individual experiences, increase revenue, strengthen customer loyalty, and improve efficiency.
With a global footprint, Bloomreach powers over 25% of all e-commerce experiences across the US and UK, and supports 300+ global enterprises including Neiman Marcus, CapitalOne, Staples, NHS Digital, Bosch, Puma, and Marks & Spencer.
