Job Description

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 Munchen, 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

Read this interesting article for milestones achieved by Bloomreach:

What our Backend Engineers have done:

Engineers at Bloomreach are rock-star developers who own and lead the design and development of critical technology components.

• Bloomreach Product Search - industry-leading e-commerce domain search engine. It is self-learning, has semantic understanding capabilities, and offers advanced personalization features.
• Bloomreach Recommendations and Pathways - a capability that caters intelligently selected products to individual customers utilizing advanced scalable recommendation algorithms.
• Distributed and highly scalable content indexing system which caters to some of the largest e-commerce retailers in the world. Massively parallel crawler and parser that is able to crawl and index 3,600 QPS (~300 million pages per day).
• High throughput NoSQL database and search systems that scale for billions of interactions and millions of products (you need this when you are representing 25% of all retail eCommerce experiences in the US and UK)
• Real-time autocomplete system which provides suggestions faster than the blink of an eye.
• Distributed, highly scalable, and robust configuration management system which acts as a central repository for all Bloomreach products (because every merchant is different).
• A suite of automated deployment tools that enable single-click E2E testing and multi-system deployment (so everyone else can just worry about code!)
• Filed multiple patents in areas such as search algorithms, systems, and SEO.
• Contributor to the Open Source community, be it through code, community events, or even regular meetups.
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Responsibilities:

• Work with other engineering and product leaders to build and execute the data strategy for Bloomreach Discovery.
• Design & build systems to scale Bloomreach's user data ingestion system to the next order of magnitude (10 billion+ events per day).
• Identify architectural & product limitations in our data analytics platform and come up with creative approaches to solve these hairy problems. You will spearhead these projects, design e2e solutions, and drive implementation, rollout, and uptime while maintaining our strict production SLAs.
• Build infrastructure, monitoring, and tools to increase automation, and improve the efficiency of the engineering team while maintaining technical excellence in the codebase.
• Mentor engineers, build the next generation of technical leadership in the organization, and be accountable for the technical output of the team.
• Define a technical roadmap for the team in collaboration with Product & Engineering leaders.

Qualifications:

• B.Tech/M.Tech or equivalent degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience building scalable software systems including 3+ years of technical leadership experience.
• Experience building large data processing systems at a significant scale in a production environment.
• Hands-on technical leadership experience leading projects and setting technical direction.
• Extensive background in algorithms and strong software architecture skills.
• Expert proficiency in backend first languages, such as C/C++, Java, Scala, Python, etc.
• Experience with large-scale data processing (e.g. Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, Mapreduce), Linux serving systems
• Experience with big data and large-scale data processing technologies (e.g. Hadoop, Spark).
• Experience with data warehouses (e.g. Redshift, BigQuery) is a plus.
• Experience with Java-based web applications (eg. Play, Spring) & UI frameworks (eg. React, Angular) is a plus.
• 2+ years experience working with AWS or GCP.

Regional benefits:

• Annual medical insurance coverage for yourself and your dependents
• Annual master health check-up up to 4000 INR per month
• Statutory retirement benefits (Provident Fund Gratuity)

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 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 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 elaborates on our stellar 4.6/5 rating. The 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
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.

Compensation:

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 celebrate work anniversaries -- Bloomversaries!*

*Subject to employment type. Interns are exempt from marked benefits for the first 6 months.

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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