Staff Software Engineer - Python, Java / Spring or Go

Bloomreach; United States; Remote; USD 55,000 - 69,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid volunteering days

Flexible working hours

Remote-first with hubs

Stock options / RSUs

Performance bonus

Referral bonus up to $3,000

Job summary

Bloomreach is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer to help build the Pulsar platform that powers our SaaS products. The role supports a remote-first setup with optional in-person meetings in Bratislava, Brno or Prague.

You’ll design scalable backend services, work across Java/Spring, Python, and Go, and ensure secure, reliable production deployments. You’ll collaborate with Frontend, Security, and Cloud teams, contribute to API design, and help ship features used by thousands of customers while

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend experience in a production environment.
• Experience designing APIs for a SaaS product.
• Experience operating services in production on public cloud infrastructure.
• Knowledge of web security principles (OWASP).
• Ability to collaborate across teams including frontend engineers and product managers.

Responsibilities

• Develop features used by thousands of customers in a distributed cloud environment.
• Design and implement backend services with Python/Java/Go.
• Contribute to platform and admin services used by SaaS products.
• Review design docs, write tests, and drive production deployments.
• Collaborate with teams on API design, security, and reliability.

Skills

Python backend

Java/Spring

Go backend

API design

Cloud production

Frontend basics (Angular/React)

Tools

Jira

Gitlab CI/CD

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenSearch

Job description

the company is building the world’s premier agentic platform for personalization.We’re revolutionizing how businesses connect with their customers, building and deploying AI agents to personalize the entire customer journey.

• We're taking autonomous search mainstream, making product discovery more intuitive and conversational for customers, and more profitable for businesses.
• We’re making conversational shopping a reality, connecting every shopper with tailored guidance and product expertise — available on demand, at every touchpoint in their journey.
• We're designing the future of autonomous marketing, taking the work out of workflows, and reclaiming the creative, strategic, and customer-first work marketers were always meant to do.

And we're building all of that on the intelligence of a single AI engine — Loomi — so that personalization isn't only autonomous…it's also consistent.From retail to financial services, hospitality to gaming, businesses use the company to drive higher growth and lasting loyalty. We power personalization for more than 1,400 global brands, including American Eagle, Sonepar, and Pandora.

We want you to join us full-time as a Staff Backend Engineer. You will work remotely first (from Central & Eastern Europe), but we are more than happy to meet you in our nice offices in Bratislava, Brno or Prague.

The Pulsar team builds platform and admin services that all the company SaaS products rely on. In your first year, you’ll develop features used by thousands of customers and deliver fast, consistent, and high-energy (but low-drama) product releases. We all work remotely from the US, India, and Europe.

Examples of our services:

• Central services to publish Model Context Protocol APIs for external AI agents
• Multi-product customer provisioning and licensing orchestration
• Integrated user management, authentication, and authorization
• High-availability, centralized configuration management
• Tools for new customer integration & product tuning

Why you’ll love your work

• Technical Variety: Cloud-native services with diverse tech stacks offer learning and experimentation.
• Impact: Our services are used by customers and teams across the company – engineers, product managers, services consultants, and even executives.
• Autonomy: Senior engineers design, build, and deploy complete projects and are experts in our services.
• Teamwork: Your teammates are also high performers and will support you with learning our systems, brainstorming & design review, and running high-reliability production deployments.

Your typical day

Your day begins with review of a teammate’s GitLab merge request. It has already been reviewed by Claude, but you’ll think deeply about the business problem, alternative solutions, and future needs.

Then you spend a few undisturbed hours “in the flow,” working on a technical design doc for a new project. Once you’ve completed a draft, you send it to another teammate for feedback, then decide to jump on a Zoom call to talk it over and refine it.

After lunch, you join the team for a quick standup via Zoom to discuss current work and the plan for the next few days. You mention that you’re finishing up a small improvement to improve the logging and alerting for one of our components that requires high uptime. A teammate offers to review your changes. It has some complex behavior, so you walk through it together and make a few improvements.

Soon, the new unit tests are green. With a few keystrokes, you create a merge request, spin up a dev instance, and deploy your change. After some quick smoke tests, you and your teammate decide to merge the change. Your improvement will be deployed in production with the release in a few days.

Next, you respond to a Slack request for advice on integrating with the authorization API. You draft a short tech design doc that links the API spec, code examples, and optimization tips. You discuss it on the team channel, and your manager forwards it to another team that’s also starting a new service.

Your day ends with a chat with a product manager about questions that came up while drafting the tech design. With their feedback, you refine the proposal to deliver the core feature more quickly, while the product manager will work with customers and decide how much more to invest. Tomorrow, you’ll break down the tasks in Jira and decide what you’ll complete yourself and what you’ll ask teammates to complete….

Our tech stack(s)

• Languages & Frameworks: Java / Spring, Python, Go – occasionally TypeScript, Angular, React
• Data: Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka
• Cloud: AWS & GCP (RDS, Redshift, Pub/Sub, BigTable, DataFlow, etc), Docker & Kubernetes (via EKS & GKE)
• Tools: Jira, Gitlab CI/CD, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch

Our expectations

• Flexible intelligence: Stretch your technical skills in a distributed cloud environment, making changes across systems built with various tech stacks to meet challenging requirements.
• Drive: Rapidly ship product improvements that affect thousands of users in a low-drama and high-trust way.
• Security & Reliability: Balance risks and benefits of change with discipline and agility.
• Communication: Organize technical work and maintain trust/respect across multiple teams, geographic regions, and departments.
• Knowledge Sharing: Proactively share expertise, guide less experienced team members, and document work for long-term sustainability.

The ideal candidate’s experience

• Active user of AI coding tools such as Cursor and Claude Code
• Developed backend services with Python using a variety of data systems (5+ years)
• Understands web security principles (OWASP), Authentication, and Authorization practices
• Designed APIs for a SaaS product
• Operated services in production on public cloud infrastructure
• Some experience with Java / Spring or Go
• Exposure to web frontend development (Angular / React)

The pay range actually offered will take into account a variety of potential factors considered in compensation, including but not limited to skills, qualifications, geographic location, accomplishments, experience, credentials, internal equity and business needs, and may vary from the range listed above.

Base Salary Range

€49.100—€61.430 EUR

More things you'll like about the company:

Culture:

• We encourage and support our employees to engage in volunteering activities - every Bloomreacher can take 5 paid days off to volunteer*
• A great deal of freedom and trust. At the company 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 5 values and the 10 underlying key behaviors that we strongly believe in. We can only succeed if everyone lives these behaviors day to day.
• We believe in flexible working hours to accommodate your working style.
• We work virtual-first with several the company Hubs available across three continents.
• We organize company events to experience the global spirit of the company and get excited about what's ahead.
• The the company Glassdoor page elaborates on our stellar 4.7/5 rating. The the company Comparably page 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.
• *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:

• 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.
• Extended parental leave up to 26 calendar weeks for Primary Caregivers.

Compensation:

• Restricted Stock Units or Stock Options are granted depending on a team member’s role, seniority, and location.
• Everyone gets to participate in the company's performance bonus.
• We offer an employee referral bonus of up to $3,000!
• We reward & celebrate work anniversaries -- Bloomversaries!

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

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