The Team

The Merchandising Product team is delivering features that shape how users experience and unlock the full value of our platform. We have ambitious goals ahead of us, including building several new products on top of Algolia’s existing APIs and GenAI Studio. Our team has a direct impact on user adoption and revenue stream.

Your role will consist of:

As a Software Engineer at Algolia, you will play a pivotal role in architecting and implementing new products, central to the future of Algolia. You’ll:

• Be a key contributor to the design, development, and operation of our services at scale.
• Be responsible for the quality, reliability and availability of the system.
• Work with other teams to build features and resolve high impact issues.

You might be a fit if you have:

• Around 4+ years of software engineering experience, ideally across backend and frontend systems.
• Experience building frontend experiences preferably in Typescript and React
• Exposure to building and working with APIs at scale preferably in Ruby, Golang
• Rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
• Good spoken and written English skills

Nice to have:

• Experience in Rails backend
• Experience working with streaming APIs, large datasets and high traffic
• Comfortable working in cloud native environments (GCP, Kubernetes)

We’re looking for someone who can live our values:

• GRIT - Problem-solving and perseverance capability in an ever-changing and growing environment
• TRUST - Willingness to trust our co-workers and to take ownership
• CARE - Genuine care about other team members, our clients and the decisions we make in the company.
• CANDOR - Ability to receive and give constructive feedback.
• HUMILITY - Aptitude for learning from others, putting ego aside.

Flexible Workplace Strategy

Algolia’s flexible workplace model is designed to empower all Algolians to fulfill our mission to power search and discovery with ease. We place an emphasis on an individual’s impact, contribution, and output, over their physical location. Algolia is a high-trust environment and many of our team members have the autonomy to choose where they want to work and when.

While we have a global presence with offices in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney and Bucharest, we also offer many of our team members the option to work remotely either as fully remote or hybrid-remote employees. Positions listed as "Remote" are only available for remote work within the specified country. Positions listed within a specific city are only available in that location, and may be available with a hybrid-remote or in-office schedule.

About Us

Algolia prides itself on being a pioneer and market leader offering an AI Search solution that empowers 17,000+ businesses to compose customer experiences at internet scale that predict what their users want with blazing fast search and web browse experience. Algolia powers more than 30 billion search requests a week.

Who we’re looking for

We’re looking for talented, passionate people to build the world’s best search & discovery technology. As an ownership-driven company, we seek team members who thrive within an environment based on autonomy and diversity. We’re committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace. We care about each other and the world around us, and embrace talented people regardless of race, age, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, color, veteran status, disability and socioeconomic background.

Ready to apply?

If you share our values and our enthusiasm for building the world’s best search & discovery technology, we’d love to review your application!

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