Staff Software Engineer
Job description
Staff Backend Engineer on the Pulsar team, building platform and admin services that all Bloomreach SaaS products rely on. The role is remote-first from Central & Eastern Europe, with offices in Bratislava, Brno or Prague available.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · Central & Eastern Europe
- Pay
- CZK 1,520,000 – 1,900,000 / year
What you'll do
- Review teammates' GitLab merge requests, thinking deeply about the business problem, alternative solutions, and future needs
- Write technical design docs for new projects and refine them with teammate and product manager feedback
- Join team standups via Zoom to discuss current work and the plan for the next few days
- Improve logging and alerting for components that require high uptime
- Create merge requests, spin up dev instances, deploy changes, and run smoke tests
- Advise on integrating with the authorization API and draft short tech design docs linking API specs, code examples, and optimization tips
- Break down tasks in Jira and decide what to complete yourself and what to ask teammates to complete
- Design, build, and deploy complete projects with autonomy
- Develop features used by thousands of customers and deliver fast, consistent, high-energy product releases
What we're looking for
- 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)
- Flexible intelligence: stretch technical skills in a distributed cloud environment, making changes across systems built with various tech stacks
- 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
Your team
Pulsar team
Builds platform and admin services that all Bloomreach SaaS products rely on, including 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, and tools for new customer integration & product tuning. Works remotely from the US, India, and Europe.
Benefits
5 defined values and 10 underlying key behaviors embedded in recruitment, onboarding, feedback, personal development, performance review and internal communication
Leader Development Program for managers including regular comprehensive feedback, coach consultations and follow-up check-ins
- A great deal of freedom and trust; no clocking in and out, no corporate rules or long approval processes
- Flexible working hours to accommodate your working style
- Virtual-first with several Bloomreach Hubs across three continents
- Company events to experience the global spirit of the company
- 5 paid days off to volunteer
- People Development Program with personal development workshops run by internal experts
- Resident communication coach available to help navigate work-related communications & decision-making challenges
- $1,500 professional education budget annually for books, courses, certifications, etc.
- Employee Assistance Program with counselors for non-work-related challenges
- Subscription to Calm sleep and meditation app
- 'DisConnect' days: one additional day off each quarter
- Sports, yoga, and meditation opportunities
- Extended parental leave up to 26 calendar weeks for Primary Caregivers
- Restricted Stock Units or Stock Options depending on role, seniority, and location
- Company performance bonus
- Employee referral bonus of up to $3,000
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About Bloomreach
Building the world's premier agentic platform for personalization
Bloomreach is building an agentic platform for personalization, taking autonomous search mainstream, making conversational shopping a reality, and designing the future of autonomous marketing, all built on a single AI engine called Loomi. From retail to financial services, hospitality to gaming, businesses use Bloomreach to drive higher growth and lasting loyalty.
Mission
Revolutionizing how businesses connect with their customers, building and deploying AI agents to personalize the entire customer journey.
Key facts
- SaaS / e-commerce personalization
- Powers personalization for more than 1,400 global brands
- Brands include American Eagle, Sonepar, and Pandora
- Single AI engine called Loomi
- Virtual-first with several Bloomreach Hubs across three continents
- Glassdoor rating 4.7/5
- Comparably culture score 4.9/5
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