Job Description

• India

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.

Our India team is a critical product development and innovation hub for the company, with many of the company’s key products and technology initiatives created and developed by this team. Bloomreach Search, our search and personalization product, was built and shipped out of our India office.

We are currently allowing flexibility for all our employees to work from home until it is deemed safe for us to return back to the office. 

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 eCommerce 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 eCommerce retailers in the world. Read this interesting article for milestones achieved by Bloomreach: https://www.Bloomreach.com/en/news/2020/Bloomreach-hits-major-milestones.html
• Massively parallel crawler and parser that is able to crawl and index 3,600 QPS (~300 million pages per day).
• High throughput search systems which support more than 6,000 QPS and supporting 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).
• 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, or community events, or even regular meetups

What you’ll bring:

• A B.Tech/M.Tech or equivalent degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 10+ years of experience in building enterprise software in a corporate or start up
• Strong in problem solving skills
• Hands on in coding. Good knowledge in data structures and algorithms
• Strong in system design. Experience in architecting, designing, developing and maintaining large scale distributed systems at significant scale. Good experience in micro services architecture & design
• Expert proficiency in Python programming is a must.
• Expert proficiency in other programming languages, such as Java, Golang, Scala, C/C++ etc.
• Experience with large-scale data processing (e.g. Spark, Hadoop, Solr, Mapreduce), Linux serving systems
• Experience with NoSql database & transactional database
• Experience with Distributed Caches
• Good experience in AWS, Kubernetes and ISTIO.
• Understanding of frameworks such as Django, Dropwizard, Tomcat etc.
• Proficient in good software development / testing practices. Experience in the performance testing of applications.
• Contributing to the Open Source community is a plus
• Good communication skills