Remote Software Engineer II - EMEA Central

Description:

• Bloomreach is building an agentic platform for personalization, revolutionizing how businesses connect with customers through AI agents.
• The company is focused on making autonomous search mainstream and enhancing product discovery for customers.
• The role is for a Software Engineer in the Web Experience Team, responsible for building scalable APIs for real-time personalization.
• The position involves developing and maintaining components in Golang and Python for client-side personalization on customer websites.
• The starting salary is 3000 € per month, with stock options and additional benefits.
• The tech stack includes Golang, Python, Jinja Template Engine, gRPC, Kubernetes, GitLab CI, and MongoDB.
• Responsibilities include delivering new features, ensuring quality and performance, and maintaining owned components.
• The team embraces E2E ownership, DevOps, and Agile principles, providing exposure to the entire product lifecycle.

Requirements:

• Knowledge of Golang or Python is required.
• Strong skills in a similar scripting language and a demonstrated ability to learn quickly are welcome if new to Golang.
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and other DevOps tools is necessary.
• Experience with CI/CD approaches, ideally using GitLab CI, is required.
• Experience designing and optimizing APIs for high-concurrency, low-latency environments is essential.
• Bonus points for experience with event-driven architectures, message queues, or horizontally-scaled, stateless services.
• Knowledge of gRPC for efficient API communication is required.
• Understanding of monitoring and alerting in a cloud environment using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Sentry is necessary.
• Personal qualities include the ability to work effectively within a team, a willingness to learn, proactive problem-solving, and fluency in English.

Benefits:

• Employees enjoy a great deal of freedom and trust, with flexible working hours and a virtual-first work environment.
• Bloomreach supports volunteering activities, offering 5 paid days off to volunteer.
• The company has a People Development Program and provides a $1,500 professional education budget annually.
• Well-being initiatives include an Employee Assistance Program, subscription to Calm, and organized sports and yoga opportunities.
• Compensation includes stock options, a performance bonus, and an employee referral bonus of up to $3,000.
• Employees are celebrated for work anniversaries with Bloomversaries.