Senior Software Engineer, Search Intelligence

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.

About the Role:

Bloomreach is solving one of the digital world’s most fundamental problems: helping people instantly find what they need when they need it. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Search Intelligence team, who will play a crucial role in advancing our search and personalization capabilities. The team focuses on designing, building, and enhancing semantic understanding, query parsing and processing, and language modeling within the search system. Your contributions will include the development of new recall and ranking search algorithms, as well as the implementation of machine learning and LLM models to optimize the digital experience for commerce. You will be responsible for designing and architecting core components for new features, aiming to improve the performance of existing high-traffic, highly available search APIs. You will be at the forefront of developing innovative solutions to enhance search capabilities, utilizing cutting-edge technologies to ensure users can instantly access what they need. This role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to the core of our product, applying your expertise to improve search functionalities and redefine the digital shopping experience.

What you'll do:

• Design and implement recall and ranking search algorithms, leveraging the latest LLM models to optimize the digital experience for commerce
• Build, maintain, and scale data processing pipelines for Search in an efficient and reliable way
• Partner with the Product team to understand requirements and use cases, Lead and engage cross-functional engineering teams to plan and drive end to end execution of projects
• Participate in lean and agile development process in an automation- and monitoring-driven environment, from planning, scoping, estimation all the way to optimization, maintenance, and support
• Acquire proficiency and apply GenAI/LLM technologies to enhance search relevance, ultimately boosting revenue for Bloomreach customers
• Steward an extremely high bar of technical excellence for the company to drive innovation in the search and personalization space

What you'll need:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related fields.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience in Java or another object-oriented language, working with cloud providers (AWS, GCP) and building enterprise software products.
• Experience with open source search engines (Solr, ElasticSearch) as well as big data and large-scale data processing technologies (Hadoop, Spark, Kafka).
• Proven track record in developing and maintaining distributed systems at scale in a production environment.
• Extensive background in data structures and algorithms with strong software architecture skills.
• Familiarity with the machine learning algorithms and tools, and keen interest for staying up-to-date with the latest advancements in search/GenAI/LLM  technologies, and related fields.
• Experience working with Data Science teams to implement ML models in real-time serving is a plus.
• Startup experience in a fast-paced growth company is highly desirable but not required.

Excited? Join us and transform the future of commerce experiences.

The base salary range for this position is $135,000-$185,000. 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