Technical Skills & Experience
- 3–6 years of professional software development experience.
- Strong programming experience in Java, with hands-on experience building backend applications using Spring Boot.
- Experience building modern web applications using React.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
- Experience developing RESTful APIs and integrating frontend applications with backend services.
- Experience writing Python applications or services for automation, data processing, or backend development.
- Good understanding of relational databases and SQL.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.
- Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and modern software development practices.
- Familiarity with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes is a plus.
Engineering Mindset
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
- Passion for building high-quality customer-facing products.
- Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, agile environment.
- Strong communication skills and willingness to learn from peers.
- Ownership mindset with the ability to independently drive features to completion.
What Success Looks Like in the First 30/60/90 Days
First 30 Days: Learn & Ramp Up
- Team & Product Understanding: Build a strong understanding of the Dashboard team's mission, development processes, and engineering practices. Become familiar with the customer workflows around search, merchandising, and analytics dashboards.
- Technical Onboarding: Set up your development environment, understand the architecture of our React, Spring Boot, and Python services, and learn how the different components interact.
- Build Relationships: Collaborate with teammates, actively participate in design discussions and code reviews, and become comfortable with the team's development and release processes.
- First Contribution: Successfully deliver your first production change, such as a bug fix or a small feature enhancement.
First 60 Days: Build & Own
- Feature Ownership: Independently deliver medium-sized features across the frontend and backend, taking ownership from design through production deployment.
- Technical Proficiency: Develop a solid understanding of the Dashboard platform, APIs, and data pipelines that power customer-facing analytics and configuration experiences.
- Operational Excellence: Participate in production support, investigate issues, and contribute to improving application reliability, performance, and code quality.
- Collaboration: Work closely with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to refine requirements and deliver high-quality user experiences.
First 90 Days: Deliver Impact
- End-to-End Ownership: Lead the implementation of a significant feature or enhancement, collaborating with stakeholders and ensuring a smooth production rollout.
- Technical Contributions: Proactively identify opportunities to improve application performance, developer experience, system reliability, or maintainability, and help drive those improvements.
- Engineering Excellence: Become a trusted contributor through thoughtful code reviews, technical discussions, and by sharing knowledge with the team.
- Customer Focus: Demonstrate a strong understanding of customer needs by building features that improve usability, performance, and the overall dashboard experience.
More things you'll like about Bloomreach
Culture
A great deal of freedom and trust. At Bloomreach 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've embedded them in our processes like recruitment, onboarding, feedback, personal development, performance review and internal communication.
We believe in flexible working hours to accommodate your working style.
We work virtual-first with several Bloomreach Hubs available across three continents.
We organize company events to experience the global spirit of the company and get excited about what's ahead.
We encourage and support our employees to engage in volunteering activities - every Bloomreacher can take 5 paid days off to volunteer*.
The Bloomreach Glassdoor page elaborates on our stellar 4.7/5 rating. The Bloomreach 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. We are continuously developing & updating competency maps for select functions.
Our resident communication coach Ivo Večeřa is available to help navigate work-related communications & decision-making challenges.*
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
The Employee Assistance Program -- with counselors -- is available for non-work-related challenges.*
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.*