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title: 'Junior Software Engineer at Yotpo'
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# Junior Software Engineer at Yotpo

- **Company:** Yotpo
- **Location:** Sofia, Bulgaria
- **Posted:** 2026-06-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://www.yotpo.com/careers/gid-7981955?gh_jid=7981955

## Job description

Yotpo is leading the next era of trust and loyalty in eCommerce. With AI-powered Reviews and Loyalty solutions, we help brands turn browsers into customers and customers into advocates. Through deep integrations across the eCommerce ecosystem and the trust of over 30,000 global brands, Yotpo delivers seamless omnichannel experiences that increase conversion, strengthen customer relationships, and drive profitable, long-term growth.

Yotpo builds leading Reviews & Loyalty products for eCommerce, powered by AI and deep ecosystem integrations. We help brands turn customer voices and loyalty into measurable growth across every channel. As a Junior Software Engineer, you’ll be an integral, equal member of a cross‑functional engineering squad, partnering with engineers at every level and collaborating with product managers, designers, and more to ship features that deliver AI‑driven insights, multilingual experiences, and next‑gen loyalty capabilities for thousands of merchants.

## Why Join Us

- Quality‑first culture: Work within an engineering community that champions consistent standards, result-based decisions, and continuous improvement.
- Learn from builders: Pair with Tech Leads and senior engineers who model engineering excellence and share knowledge through reviews, forums, and workshops.
- Modern toolkit: Use current development tools (including AI‑assisted coding) and shipping practices: clean code, testing, CI/CD, and observability.
- Clear growth path: Structured feedback and mentorship to help you master fundamentals and take on more ownership quickly.

## Key Responsibilities

- Design, implement, test, and ship user-facing features and backend services with guidance, owning tasks from planning to deployment and monitoring.
- Write clean, maintainable, and well‑tested code; add meaningful logs/metrics and concise docs.
- Participate in code/design reviews, giving and receiving constructive feedback to raise the bar.
- Collaborate with product, design, and data to refine scope, break work into iterations, and deliver measurable customer value.
- Improve system health: fix bugs, reduce tech debt, and contribute to performance, reliability, security, and maintainability.
- Leverage modern dev tools (e.g., Git, CI/CD, observability, AI assistants) thoughtfully, critiquing and iterating rather than accepting output blindly.

Required Skills

- Experience: Professional software development (internships/co‑ops count), building web apps or cloud services.
- Languages/Stack: Proficiency in at least one of: TypeScript/Node.js, Java/Kotlin/C#, Python, Ruby, or Go—and/or React with TypeScript. Willingness to learn our stack.
- Foundations: Solid grasp of data structures, algorithms, HTTP, REST/GraphQL, and relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL/MySQL).
- Quality & Delivery: Experience with Git, unit/integration testing, debugging with logs/metrics, and incremental, value‑first delivery.
- Mindset: Customer‑centric, collaborative, takes ownership for outcomes, and seeks feedback.

## Preferred Qualifications (Nice to Have)

- Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), containers (Docker), and CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins/CircleCI).
- Event‑driven systems and messaging (Kafka/RabbitMQ/Pub/Sub); caching and NoSQL (Redis/Elasticsearch).
- Observability/monitoring (Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry) and basic SRE practices.
- Experience in eCommerce, marketing tech, or SaaS at scale; familiarity with AI‑assisted development tools.

What we offer:

- Track to success – work in a dynamic organization with ambient and laid-back office atmosphere
- Individualized career development, rewards, and recognition.
- Work-life balance – 25 days paid vacation with add-ons for loyalty, regular team buildings and celebrations in and outside the country
- Additional health insurance package
- Internal mobility program and refer-a-friend program
- Managing a fixed monthly budget for social benefits thru Re:Benefit – a flexible online benefits solution
- Food vouchers
- E-learning portals and knowledge sharing sessions.
- Company-backed hackathons, Tech conferences, workshops, events, etc
- Stocked kitchen and bar.
- Flexible hybrid capacity (3 days in the office per week)

#LI-Hybrid

## About Yotpo

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Yotpo is an eCommerce retention marketing platform that helps brands build trust and loyalty through AI-powered reviews, loyalty programs, referrals, and AI visibility tools.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series F, last raised $230M in 2021 at a $1.4B valuation)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2011
- **Founders**: Tomer Tagrin and Omri Cohen

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: eCommerce marketing platform, customer retention, user-generated content, loyalty management
- **Target customers**: B2B – direct-to-consumer brands, retailers, and eCommerce merchants of all sizes (SMB to enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “We help brands earn trust, build loyalty, and grow with confidence. Yotpo turns customer voice into proof, and everyday moments into long‑term relationships.”

## Products & Services
- **Reviews & UGC**: AI-driven review collection, display, and moderation; includes smart review prompts, multi-language support, and AI summaries of common themes.
- **Loyalty & Referrals**: Points-based and tiered loyalty programs, referral campaigns, and rewards to drive repeat purchases and advocacy.
- **AI Visibility (Yotpo Discover)**: Helps brands control how their products appear in AI engines (ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.) by optimizing on-site and off-site signals, tracking AI rankings, and surfacing recommendations.
- **SMS & Email Marketing**: Tools for sending personalized messages, milestone celebrations, and urgency campaigns integrated with the loyalty and reviews data.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $1.4 billion (March 2021, Series F) per Forbes; no recent public valuation update.
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of approximately $100M (LinkedIn estimate as of 2025); total funding reported as $406M (Forbes) or $451M (LinkedIn) – conflicting reports.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Bessemer Venture Partners (led Series F), Blumberg Capital, Marker, Access Industries. 180+ integrations with platforms like Shopify, Salesforce, Klaviyo, and Adobe Commerce.
- **Growth Signals**: Named to Forbes Cloud 100 (2023); powers tens of thousands of brands globally; expanded to 6 office locations across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Israel; recently launched AI Visibility product to address AI-driven commerce trends.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Platform approach**: Integrates reviews, loyalty, referrals, and AI visibility into a single retention marketing platform, reducing the need for multiple point solutions.
- **Deep integration ecosystem**: 180+ pre-built integrations with leading eCommerce, marketing, and CRM tools.
- **AI-native capabilities**: From AI review summaries to controlling product rankings in AI engines, Yotpo positions itself as a leader for the AI era of eCommerce.
- **Proven scale**: Trusted by tens of thousands of ambitious brands including Steve Madden, Away, Rothy’s, Princess Polly, Brooklinen, and Moroccanoil.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Doubling down on AI-powered features (Yotpo Discover, AI summaries) to help brands maintain visibility and trust in an AI-driven shopping landscape; expanding global reach with local offices; strengthening platform integrations.
- **Direction for growth**: Becoming the central retention engine for eCommerce brands navigating the shift toward personalized, AI-influenced customer experiences.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Described as a “community of builders, operators, and creatives” focused on solving real problems for brands. Forbes ranked Yotpo among America’s Best Startup Employers (2021).
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Global presence with offices in New York, Tel Aviv, London, Sydney, Sofia (Bulgaria), and Toronto. Roles span multiple locations; specific remote/hybrid policies vary by role and are not publicly detailed.
- **Notable perks or engineering culture**: Significant engineering presence (19% of workforce in technical roles) working on modern stacks (full-stack, backend, DevOps, platform). Recent job postings include Senior Full-Stack Engineer, DevSecOps Engineer, and Frontend Team Leader. Employee reviews on LinkedIn rate culture 3.5/5, work-life 3.5/5, compensation 3.1/5.

## Sources
1. [yotpo.com](https://www.yotpo.com/careers/) – Careers & Jobs page
2. [yotpo.com](https://www.yotpo.com/about/) – About Us page
3. [forbes.com](https://www.forbes.com/companies/yotpo/) – Forbes Company Overview & News (valuation, funding, employee count)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/yotpo) – LinkedIn Company Page (revenue, funding, headcount, employee breakdown, reviews)

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