In the minute it takes you to read this job description, Bluecore has launched over 100,000 individually personalized marketing campaigns for our retail ecommerce customers!
Description of Opportunity
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to build backend systems that perform at scale. The ideal candidate is adept at writing robust, extensible, and efficient code and has a knack for solving sophisticated problems with simple solutions. Our stack consists primarily of Python on the backend and React on the frontend. We see technology as a means to solving problems and getting things done and thus prioritize talent over existing skill sets. We are building AI based applications and work extensively with LLMs. We use Google Cloud hosted infrastructure services including Google App Engine, Kubernetes, MongoDb, RabbitMQ, BigQuery, and Cloud SQL. Our culture emphasizes making good tradeoffs, working as a team, and leaving your ego at the door.
Responsibilities:
- Design, architect, and develop performant, reliable, and high-quality systems at scale.
- Ensure system stability, including monitoring key metrics and helping resolve issues.
- Plan and execute effectively on large architecture projects with complex dependencies.
- Work cross-functionally with product managers, designers, data scientists, and other engineers to deliver high quality products.
- Work effectively in an Agile environment to deliver high quality software against aggressive schedules.
- Communicate technical ideas, proposals, and plan effectively through presentations, technical specs, blog posts, and documentation.
- Actively mentor to decrease the ramp-up time of new and existing team members.
- Help build our engineering culture and design architecture for our web product, being an early team member
Requirements:
- Proven experience as a Software Engineer, ideally in MarTech, AdTech, or eCommerce industry.
- Expertise in Python development
- Hands-on experience with cloud-based infrastructure, preferably GCP.
- Expertise in MongoDB or similar NoSQL databases. Experience with data modeling and relational & non-relational datastores.
- Expertise in building scalable micro services
- Experience with messaging brokers such as RabbitMQ.
- Experience building AI powered applications and working with LLMs is a huge plus
- Experience excelling within a high-growth, startup environment or building out a new team/function within a larger company is preferred
- Experience in leading and mentoring teams, with a strong focus on high-quality code and software engineering best practices.
- Strong problem-solving skills, ability to lead the development of complex features.
- Proven track record of successfully delivering sizable projects that span multiple teams and multiple quarters that produce significant results and impact overall business success.
- Excellent communication skills, ability to collaborate across teams and influence key stakeholders.
- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Salary Range $190k - $240k
Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size and industry. Salary is just one part of our total compensation package that includes equity, perks & benefits, and development opportunities at Bluecore. Individual pay decisions are based on several factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, geography, and balancing internal equity relative to other Bluecorians. We expect that the majority of candidates who are offered roles at Bluecore to land well within our salary ranges based on these factors
More About Us:
Bluecore is a multi-channel personalization platform that gives retailers a competitive advantage in a digital-first world. Unlike systems built for mass marketing and a physical-first world, Bluecore unifies shopper and product data in a single platform, and using easy-to-deploy predictive models, activates welcomed one-to-one experiences at the speed and scale of digital. Through Bluecore’s dynamic shopper and product matching, brands can personalize 100% of communications delivered to consumers through their shopping experiences, anywhere.
This comes to life in three core product lines:
- Bluecore Communicate™ a modern email service provider (ESP) + SMS
- Bluecore Site™ an onsite capture and personalization product
- Bluecore Advertise™ a paid media product