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Bloomreach is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to join our Search Quality 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.
Job Responsibility:
Design, develop, and maintain backend services and distributed systems powering search at scale
Collaborate with applied scientists and ML engineers to bring research prototypes into production
Work across the full stack of our AI Search architecture, from ingest and indexing to query-time ranking and retrieval
Integrate big data and real-time streaming systems (e.g., Kafka, Spark) to process and learn from user behavior at scale
Optimize for low-latency and high-availability performance across hundreds of millions of queries per day
Operate in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, where your work will directly influence customer success
Requirements:
BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field
2+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend systems using Java or Python
Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals including algorithms, data structures, and distributed systems
Experience working with cloud environments (AWS or GCP) and containerized deployments (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
Proven experience with distributed systems, microservices architecture, and large-scale data pipelines
Experience with big data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, and data lakes
Strong analytical and debugging skills
passion for clean code and sustainable software practices
Interest in or exposure to machine learning technologies in real-world applications
Nice to have:
Experience with search engines such as Apache Solr, Lucene, or Elasticsearch
Familiarity with vector search, embeddings, or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
Contributions to open-source projects or ML infrastructure
Experience with metrics-driven development and A/B testing frameworks
What we offer:
A great deal of freedom and trust
flexible working hours
work virtual-first
company events
5 paid days off to volunteer
People Development Program
communication coach available
Leader Development Program
$1,500 professional education budget annually
Employee Assistance Program with counselors
Subscription to Calm app
‘DisConnect’ days with additional day off each quarter
sports, yoga, and meditation opportunities
Extended parental leave up to 26 calendar weeks for Primary Caregivers