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Senior Staff Software Engineer

Bloomreach · India

Posted about 2 months ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
54 days
Bloomreach's roles stay open a median of 55 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
12% of Bloomreach's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Bloomreach
high
54 stale, 4 reposted of 78 open
Hiring momentum
105 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-09-27

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Bloomreach's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Bloomreach.

About this role

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Bloomreach, you will lead the architecture and evolution of the company's core search platform, which handles millions of queries daily. Your responsibilities include driving technical strategy, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance search relevance and ranking systems. This role requires a blend of technical leadership and hands-on engineering to ensure the platform meets performance and scalability requirements.

Our read on this posting3.0out of 5
benefits
5/5
freshness
1/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Bloomreach as an employer.

What you need

  • 8–12+ years of professional software engineering experience, with deep expertise in backend and distributed systems.
  • Strong, hands-on experience building large-scale Search or Information Retrieval systems.
  • Deep expertise in search relevance, ranking, and query/catalog understanding.
  • Proven experience designing and operating distributed, low-latency systems at scale.
  • Strong coding skills in Java and/or Python, with a focus on production-quality, maintainable systems.
  • Experience working in cloud environments (AWS or GCP) and modern deployment platforms.

Nice to have

  • Hands-on experience with Apache Solr, Lucene, or Elasticsearch.
  • Experience with vector search, embeddings, or semantic retrieval.
  • Familiarity with search evaluation, offline metrics, and A/B experimentation.
  • Experience with big data or streaming systems (Spark, Kafka, Hadoop).
  • Prior experience building enterprise-scale, customer-facing platforms.

What you get

  • Flexible working hours to accommodate your working style.
  • Virtual-first work environment with several Bloomreach Hubs available across three continents.
  • 5 paid days off to volunteer.
  • $1,500 professional education budget on an annual basis.
  • Employee Assistance Program with counselors for non-work-related challenges.
  • Subscription to Calm - sleep and meditation app.

Worth weighing

  • No specific salary information provided.
  • The role emphasizes technical leadership and mentorship, which may require strong interpersonal skills.
  • The position involves working with a modern stack, but specific technologies beyond Java and Python are not detailed.
  • The company culture promotes a high degree of freedom and responsibility, which may not suit everyone.

Summarised from Bloomreach's posting. Read the full original.

Listed by Bloomreach on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-27. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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