Staff Software Engineer

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 NoSQL database and search systems which 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).
• 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 building software solutions in a corporate or start up
• Good knowledge in data structures and algorithms
• Strong software designing and architecture skills
• Good understanding of data engineering concepts.
• Experience with large-scale data processing (e.g. MapReduce, Hadoop, Spark)
• Knowledge of any one Data Warehouse like RedShift, BigQuery etc.
• Knowledge of any one Relational Database like Postgres, MySql etc.
• Experience in workflow management tools like Airflow
• Good understanding of Microservices
• Expert proficiency in programming languages, such as Java or GoLang etc.
• Experience with developing and maintaining distributed systems at significant scale in a production environment
• Experience in the performance testing of applications.
• Experience of working in and contribution to the Open Source community is a plus
• Good communication skills

Your Success Story will be:

What success looks like in 30 days?

• General company related onboarding
• A buddy is assigned to you
• Onboarding into the team, which involves a 2-3 weeks of training related to systems/technologies that the team works on
• Getting a good understanding of the Bloomreach / Discovery business

What success looks like in 60 days?

• Gain a good understanding of Analytics systems and the related technologies
• Learning the technologies that are used in the system (if the person is already not aware)
• Playing around with the system
• Start working on small tasks / bugs (with guidance from your buddy)
• Get a high level understanding of the other systems in the search platform.

What success looks like in 90 days?

• Continue to work on small tasks / bugs with less guidance from your buddy
• Start providing technical guidance to the team members

What success looks like in 6 months?

• Build rapport with other teams

• Handle at least 1 project independently