Software Engineer II

Bloomreach is building the world’s premier agentic platform for personalization .

We’re revolutionizing how businesses connect with their customers, building and deploying AI agents to personalize the entire customer journey.

• 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.
• And we’re building all of that on the intelligence of a single AI engine —
• Loomi AI

— so that personalization isn’t only autonomous…it’s also consistent.

From retail to financial services, hospitality to gaming, businesses use Bloomreach to drive higher growth and lasting loyalty.

We power personalization for more than 1,400 global brands, including American Eagle, Sonepar, and Pandora.

Bloomreach is solving one of the digital world’s most fundamental problems: helping people instantly find what they need when they need it. We are seeking a

Backend Software Engineer to join our

Scaling Intelligence team , responsible for hosting and serving thousands of indexes at the scale of tens of thousands of queries per second.

In this role, you’ll work with a passionate, versatile, and collaborative team, improving system scalability by utilizing cloud technologies.

Additionally, you’ll have the opportunity to influence and implement architectural solutions that will enable us to achieve our goal of being the world’s most trusted digital experience platform.

Who you are

• You are curious with a desire to understand how the world works and why our semantic search engine is leading the industry
• You are happy; the work is challenging, but you always put a smile on your face
• You are honest, even if it means having to share bad news or disagree with a team member
• You are motivated and willing to do whatever it takes to honor your commitment and get the job done
• You are humble, always open‑minded, eager to learn from others and focus on the We instead of I
• You are team‑oriented and find fulfillment working in a highly collaborative team environment with like‑minded individuals to drive our business forward

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

Qualifications

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or related fields
• 3+ years of experience building enterprise software applications and systems in a corporate or startup engineering environment using Java or Python
• 3+ years experience working with AWS or GCP
• Experience with developing and maintaining distributed systems at scale in a production environment is a must
• Experience with multithreading is a must
• Experience with containerization, Kubernetes is a must
• Experience with open‑source search engines Lucene, Solr, and Elastic Search is a plus
• Experience with machine learning technology (familiar with embedding, vector db, model tuning) is a plus

Benefits and Compensation

• Flexible working hours to accommodate your working style
• Virtual‑first work environment with Bloomreach Hubs available across three continents
• Professional education budget up to $1,500 per year to purchase books, courses, certifications, etc.
• Employee Assistance Program with counselors for non‑work‑related challenges
• Subscription to Calm, a sleep and meditation app
• Dis Connect days – one additional day off each quarter for worldwide teams to unwind together and focus on activities away from the screen
• Sports, yoga, and meditation opportunities for all employees
• Extended parental leave up to 26 calendar weeks for primary caregivers
• Restricted Stock Units or Stock Options granted based on role, seniority, and location
• Company performance bonus participation
• Employee referral bonus up to $3,000 paid out immediately after the new hire starts
• Celebration of work anniversaries (Bloomversaries!)

*Subject to employment type. Interns may be exempt from some benefits for the first six months.

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