Junior Software Engineer

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 h