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:

  • Discovery, offering AI-driven search and merchandising
  • Content, offering a headless CMS
  • 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.

 

We seek a passionate Go backend Software Engineer to join our Analytics team and help us build our new data platform fueling business-critical features. You will mainly write new services in Go which run on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Kubernetes, interacting with SQL databases, Kafka, and other services.

Part of your job will be to ensure the eventual consistency of data across multiple databases, high availability, good observability, and efficiency of services. The ability to read Python code is crucial since a significant part of the platform code is written in it and some existing features will be moved from the existing Python code base to new Go services.

The team is working remotely in the Central European Timezone. We are more than happy to meet you in Brno (Czechia) or in Bratislava (Slovakia) where our headquarters is located.

If we piqued your interest, you can chat with Milan, the team's Engineering Manager, or go ahead and apply 🙂.

Responsibilities

  1. Develop, design, maintain, and test our services written in Go.
  2. Work with GCP, Kubernetes, Kafka, ClickHouse, and many other technologies.
  3. Work with SQL interface for efficient interaction with multiple databases.
  4. Design distributed systems ensuring data consistency, high availability, observability, and efficiency.
  5. Assist and troubleshoot during the service lifecycle, including design, deployment, and operation stages (build it and run it).
  6. Work as part of the L3 support to handle and resolve production incidents.

Qualifications

  1. Prior experience in software development, specifically with Go.
  2. Proficiency in reading Python code.
  3. Solid grasp of engineering principles and practices.
  4. Experience working with GCP, Kubernetes, cloud-based services, and distributed systems.
  5. Familiarity with OLAP SQL databases.
  6. High problem-solving capabilities for tackling complex software development issues.
  7. Experience being part of a live production on-call rotation is preferred.
  8. Familiarity with Data Lakehouses is a plus.
  9. Interest in Rust or C++ will be your advantage.

Our stack

  • Go, Python, C++ (you will mostly work in Go and read Python)
  • ClickHouse, Apache Kafka, MongoDB, and more … 
  • Kubernetes (GKE)
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Gitlab CI/CD, Prometheus and Grafana

Compensations

  • Salary ranges from 3500 EUR gross/month based on your seniority and it can get much higher later depending on your performance.
  • There's a bonus based on company performance and your salary.
  • You will be entitled to restricted stock units 📈that will truly make you a part of Bloomreach.
  • You can spend 1500 USD per year on the education of your choice (books, conferences, courses, ...).
  • You can count on free access to Udemy courses.
  • We have 4 company-wide disconnect days throughout the year during which you will be encouraged not to work and spend a day with your friends and family "disconnected".
  • You will have an extra 5 days of paid vacation 🏖. Extra days off for extra work-life balance 🙂.
  • Food allowance!
  • Sweet referral bonus up to 3000 USD based on the position.

Your success story.

  • During the first 30 days, you will get to know the team, the company, and the most important processes. You’ll work on your first tasks. We will help you to get familiar with our infrastructure, release process, tools, and product.
  • During the first 90 days, you will participate in your first, more complex projects. You will help the team find solutions to various problems, break the solution down into smaller tasks, and participate in implementation. You will learn how we identify problems, prioritize our efforts, and deliver value to our customers.
  • During the first 180 days, you’ll become an integral part of the team. You will achieve the first goals we will set together to help you grow and explore new and interesting things. You will help us to deliver multi-milestone projects bringing great value to our customers. You will learn how we write technical documents and drive async cooperation. You will help us mitigate your first incidents, troubleshoot your first issue in production, and eventually even join the L3 support. You will get a sense of where the team is heading and you’ll help us to shape our future.

 

We are looking for a dedicated and ambitious team player who is not only passionate about coding but also up-to-date with the latest programming trends. This role is ideal for someone who is looking for a challenging yet rewarding role in a fast-growing environment. We are fueling a limitless e-commerce experience. Join us!

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 remote-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 4.6/5 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!

If this position doesn't suit you, but you know someone who might be a great fit, share it - we will be very grateful!

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