About Emplifi

Emplifi is a leading AI-powered social media marketing and customer experience platform, empowering brands to deliver meaningful, connected experiences across digital channels. Recognized as a Leader by renowned analysts and celebrated as a customer favorite, Emplifi provides innovative, data-driven insights and AI-powered tools to help brands optimize social media performance, elevate their influencer marketing strategies, and deliver impactful customer engagement across marketing, commerce, and care.

About the Ratings & Reviews 

Emplifi’s Ratings & Reviews platform helps brands collect and showcase customer feedback to build trust and boost conversions. Its Speedflex™ widgets load 85% faster and support a range of review types, including visual content and Q&A. The platform simplifies review collection and integrates easily across email, SMS, apps, and loyalty programs. With customizable designs, strong moderation tools, and deep analytics, businesses can manage reviews effectively and gain insights into customer sentiment.

About the Role

As a Software Engineer you will play a vital role in building and maintaining applications and back-end services of the Rating and Reviews (R&R) product within the Social Commerce group. We are looking for someone with prior Engineering experience, ideally within the E-commerce and SaaS space.

The Software Engineer’s primary focus will be on web services, mostly built with Java. Scalability and quality of performance will be of utmost importance, as we continue to scale and integrate our services into the broader Emplifi Suite.

This role will require a deep technical understanding of our system and products to effectively execute, while providing insightful product and user focused decision making when needed. They will work closely with Design, Product, and DevOps to develop and maintain our embedded content galleries, as well as our management dashboard used by hundreds of major brands across the world.

What You’ll Do Here

• Work closely with designers, PMs, and engineers to tackle challenging problems in the Collect, manage, and display high-quality product reviews, Q&As, checkout comments, and seller ratings that drive conversions and engagement at the point of purchase from start to finish
• Collaborate and extend projects across a variety of R&R services, including scalable back-end APIs, embedded widgets, integrations with e-commerce platforms, email and sms providers, etc.
• Consistently challenge and influence the direction of our product offerings with confidence through both technical and user-focused thinking
• Architect and develop high-performance, highly available, and secure software solutions that scale to millions of users, leveraging your full-stack expertise to drive continuous innovation and efficiency
• Communicate effectively with product management, design teams, architects, and other development and technical teams to ensure our customers receive maximum value from our product offerings
• Apply your infrastructure and scripting knowledge to support team-wide DevOps initiatives and engineer enablement work
• Take ownership of system reliability by diagnosing and resolving bugs and issues that emerge from real-world usage and customer interactions, ensuring a seamless user experience
• Use your experience to expand engineering best practices, documentation, and other key processes for our growing team

What You’ll Bring to Us

• Developer who enjoys technical challenges and is eager to learn and explore various technologies in full-stack development
• Solid JEE foundation, Experience with Groovy, Grails or Spring Boot
• Experience with event-driven architecture and messaging systems such as Apache Kafka
• Familiarity with search technologies like OpenSearch or Elasticsearch
• Strong skills in SQL, Hibernate, and Spring Core, with experience in relational databases, familiarity with NoSQL data stores is a plus
• Strong knowledge of web standards and advanced front-end technologies, including JavaScript, React.js, jQuery, or other frameworks like Bootstrap or Angular
• Experience with eCommerce platforms such as Shopify, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, BigCommerce, or Magento would be a plus
• Experience with microservices architecture
• Experienced in Agile project frameworks and familiar with work management tools such as Jira
• Very proactive approach to solving problems
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
• Ability to write documentation clearly and concisely, and to communicate well with non-IT personnel

What We Offer 

• International and fast-paced environment
• Chance to work with the world’s biggest brands at the CX tech leader
• Agile and open-minded culture, with high levels of trust and flexibility 
• Opportunity for professional growth and development 
• Possibility to learn new and cutting-edge technologies, in an environment that encourages new ideas
• Flexible working environment
• Unlimited Paid Time Off
• Sick Days & Community Service Days
• Multisport card
• Maternity and Parental Benefit
• Internal tech talks, Udemy courses and workshops 
• Meetups & conferences 
• Possibility to work from offices in Prague (Karlin), Brno 
• There’s more as well! Speak with us to find out all the details!

At Emplifi, we are committed to creating a workplace where everyone is valued, respected, and empowered to bring their whole selves to work. We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, races, religions, genders, sexual orientations, gender identities, and LGBTQ+ communities. 

Emplifi offers a safe, inclusive, and supportive environment where every employee has the opportunity to thrive and is encouraged to be who they are.

We welcome and encourage applicants with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request at any stage of the recruitment process.

About Emplifi

Emplifi is a leading AI-powered social media marketing and customer experience platform, empowering brands to deliver meaningful, connected experiences across digital channels. Recognized as a Leader by renowned analysts and celebrated as a customer favorite, Emplifi provides innovative, data-driven insights and AI-powered tools to help brands optimize social media performance, elevate their influencer marketing strategies, and deliver impactful customer engagement across marketing, commerce, and care.

About the Ratings & Reviews 

Emplifi’s Ratings & Reviews platform helps brands collect and showcase customer feedback to build trust and boost conversions. Its Speedflex™ widgets load 85% faster and support a range of review types, including visual content and Q&A. The platform simplifies review collection and integrates easily across email, SMS, apps, and loyalty programs. With customizable designs, strong moderation tools, and deep analytics, businesses can manage reviews effectively and gain insights into customer sentiment.

About the Role

As a Software Engineer you will play a vital role in building and maintaining applications and back-end services of the Rating and Reviews (R&R) product within the Social Commerce group. We are looking for someone with prior Engineering experience, ideally within the E-commerce and SaaS space.

The Software Engineer’s primary focus will be on web services, mostly built with Java. Scalability and quality of performance will be of utmost importance, as we continue to scale and integrate our services into the broader Emplifi Suite.

This role will require a deep technical understanding of our system and products to effectively execute, while providing insightful product and user focused decision making when needed. They will work closely with Design, Product, and DevOps to develop and maintain our embedded content galleries, as well as our management dashboard used by hundreds of major brands across the world.

What You’ll Do Here

• Work closely with designers, PMs, and engineers to tackle challenging problems in the Collect, manage, and display high-quality product reviews, Q&As, checkout comments, and seller ratings that drive conversions and engagement at the point of purchase from start to finish
• Collaborate and extend projects across a variety of R&R services, including scalable back-end APIs, embedded widgets, integrations with e-commerce platforms, email and sms providers, etc.
• Consistently challenge and influence the direction of our product offerings with confidence through both technical and user-focused thinking
• Architect and develop high-performance, highly available, and secure software solutions that scale to millions of users, leveraging your full-stack expertise to drive continuous innovation and efficiency
• Communicate effectively with product management, design teams, architects, and other development and technical teams to ensure our customers receive maximum value from our product offerings
• Apply your infrastructure and scripting knowledge to support team-wide DevOps initiatives and engineer enablement work
• Take ownership of system reliability by diagnosing and resolving bugs and issues that emerge from real-world usage and customer interactions, ensuring a seamless user experience
• Use your experience to expand engineering best practices, documentation, and other key processes for our growing team

What You’ll Bring to Us

• Developer who enjoys technical challenges and is eager to learn and explore various technologies in full-stack development
• Solid JEE foundation, Experience with Groovy, Grails or Spring Boot
• Experience with event-driven architecture and messaging systems such as Apache Kafka
• Familiarity with search technologies like OpenSearch or Elasticsearch
• Strong skills in SQL, Hibernate, and Spring Core, with experience in relational databases, familiarity with NoSQL data stores is a plus
• Strong knowledge of web standards and advanced front-end technologies, including JavaScript, React.js, jQuery, or other frameworks like Bootstrap or Angular
• Experience with eCommerce platforms such as Shopify, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, BigCommerce, or Magento would be a plus
• Experience with microservices architecture
• Experienced in Agile project frameworks and familiar with work management tools such as Jira
• Very proactive approach to solving problems
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
• Ability to write documentation clearly and concisely, and to communicate well with non-IT personnel

What We Offer 

• International and fast-paced environment
• Chance to work with the world’s biggest brands at the CX tech leader
• Agile and open-minded culture, with high levels of trust and flexibility 
• Opportunity for professional growth and development 
• Possibility to learn new and cutting-edge technologies, in an environment that encourages new ideas
• Flexible working environment
• Unlimited Paid Time Off
• Sick Days & Community Service Days
• Multisport card
• Maternity and Parental Benefit
• Internal tech talks, Udemy courses and workshops 
• Meetups & conferences 
• Possibility to work from offices in Prague (Karlin), Brno 
• There’s more as well! Speak with us to find out all the details!

At Emplifi, we are committed to creating a workplace where everyone is valued, respected, and empowered to bring their whole selves to work. We welcome applications from individuals of all ages, races, religions, genders, sexual orientations, gender identities, and LGBTQ+ communities. 

Emplifi offers a safe, inclusive, and supportive environment where every employee has the opportunity to thrive and is encouraged to be who they are.

We welcome and encourage applicants with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request at any stage of the recruitment process.

About the role:

8am is looking for a Cloud Platform Engineer to help us build and maintain our next-generation platform. You will be a member of the Platform Engineering Organization, which is responsible for the software and infrastructure management focusing on availability, performance and security of core service layers supporting our payments platform and practice management software.  We serve over 200,000 legal professionals and process over $18 billion in payments every year!  You will work closely with our development teams to ensure they have the tools needed to build, test, and deploy code with ease and ensure software and quality engineer success. You will engineer and maintain configuration management environments, software delivery pipelines, IaC processes, technical governance and observability tools among other areas of platform availability.

This role is hired through an Employer of Record (EOR) partner in the Czech Republic.

About us:

8am builds software that helps professionals run stronger businesses. Our platform powers payments, client experience, and operational workflows for legal, accounting, and other service-based businesses. U.S. based professionals count on our purpose-built solutions to simplify operations, ensure compliance, and fuel profitable growth, so they can focus on their clients and do more of the work that matters.

More than 250,000 professionals across the U.S. rely on our products every day. As we continue to grow, we’re investing in the next generation of our platform and are looking for experienced engineers who want to help shape its future.

What you'll do:

• Automate deployment, monitoring, and management for 100% AWS cloud based infrastructure
• Develop, implement and own developer focused internal tooling and automation as your product
• Share in new feature design as the cloud SME supporting container/k8s first designs
• Create and maintain automated Ci/CD pipelines that streamline the release process and ensure high-quality code is delivered rapidly and continuously in a safe and compliant manner
• Develop, manage and enhance the Internal Developer and Production Platforms achieving maximum availability and stability metrics
• Collaborate with developers to identify pain points and bottlenecks in the development process and design and implement solutions that improve the developer experience and increase overall productivity
• Put together comprehensive onboarding programs and training resources to seamlessly integrate new developers into the organization
• Participate in an on-call rotation and provide emergency support occasionally outside of normally scheduled hours as needed
• Evolve and extend observability tools and systems to determine and resolve performance and usability issues

About you:

• 5+ years of professional technical experience in software engineering, AWS cloud operations or a related function.
• 3+ years of experience within a DevOps, INF or Platform Engineering role
• Experience implementing and maintaining kubernetes specific Ci/CD pipelines using CircleCI (preferred), ArgoCD (preferred), Jenkins, Github Actions, Gitlab, Azure Devops, etc.
• Experience creating internal tooling that supports developer productivity
• Experience designing and implementing automated development environments
• Documented experience provisioning and managing infrastructure in a public cloud environment such as AWS (heavily preferred), Google Cloud Platform, or Azure
• Experience with Linux container technologies, such as Docker, OCI, LXC and ability to administer, build and deploy images in an automated manner.
• Solid understanding of how a Kubernetes platform operates (service discovery, deployments, monitoring, scheduling, load balancing)
• Proficiency in at least one, ideally more of the following programming or scripting languages: Ruby, Python, Java, Javascript (NodeJS), Bash
• Experience utilizing Infrastructure as Code to provision and maintain infrastructure: Terraform (preferred), CloudFormation
• Working understanding of relational database systems such as MySQL (preferred) and PostgreSQL
• Experience with Kafka on an MSK environment is a plus
• Experience with ElasticSearch is a plus
• Experience with generative and agentic AI in an infrastructure management and implementation perspective is a plus 
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
  
• Demonstrated experience leveraging AI tools and technologies to improve workflows, enhance decision-making, or drive innovation.
• This position is preferably based in Brno, Czech Republic

Why join our new 8am Brno hub?

• Founding Team Impact: Be a founding engineer of our new Brno R&D hub. After a brief 1-6 month integration with U.S. based teams, you will help form fully autonomous, locally-led squads with clear paths to Staff and leadership roles with the exciting opportunity to collaborate face-to-face with your team in our upcoming Brno office.
• Drive our "AI-First" Transformation: We are building a secure, massive-scale "Unified AI Platform". Depending on your squad, you will either help architect this core infrastructure (LLM routing, RAG, agent orchestration) or build directly on top of it.
• Build the Next Generation of Our Platform: Help shape the systems powering products used by more than 250,000 professionals. You’ll work on complex platform capabilities across payments, workflow automation, and AI-powered features as we expand into new professional service markets.

Benefits and Perks

We offer a competitive, locally relevant benefits package designed to support your life in the Czech Republic while giving you access to global opportunities:

• Flexible Time Off (FTO) and 13 paid public holidays aligned with the Czech calendar
• Paid sick leave with additional support through the Czech social security system
• Maternity, paternity, and parental leave in line with Czech regulations, plus additional paid paternity leave from 8am
• Full statutory benefits, including public health insurance, social security, pension, and work accident coverage
• Possible performance bonus opportunities in the future and employee referral rewards

Grow Your Career

• Access to Coursera (including Gen AI Academy) and ongoing professional development
• Clear growth paths, regular feedback, and opportunities for advancement

What Makes 8am Different:

• International company environment with collaboration across Europe and the U.S.
• Opportunities to travel for company events (including potential U.S. visits)
• Engaging team culture with local events, outings, and community initiatives
• High-quality company swag and programs focused on wellness, learning, and connection
• New Brno office coming soon, with opportunities to work in-person and enjoy a flexible hybrid setup

Diversity, equity & inclusion at 8am:

At 8am, we recognize that innovation occurs with a strong team of people who are diverse in background, personality, talent and ideas. Experience comes in many forms and ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where we continue to learn from each other is an integral part of our culture. We are committed to creating a welcoming and transparent environment for all that embraces those differences through education, equal access to opportunities and information, inclusionary programs, and community outreach. 

Security advisory:

Our hiring teams at 8am are dedicated to recruiting top talent that share our passion for serving the professional services industry through innovative financial technology.  As such, our Talent Acquisition Team only follows legitimate hiring practices.  We will always communicate with our candidates using emails with the 8am domain and will never ask for sensitive/personal data during the application process.  All interviews take place over phone call, Zoom/Google Meet or in person.  All offers are communicated verbally by our Talent Acquisition Specialists with a written offer letter as a follow up.