Senior Software Engineer

Algolia

5h • Remote

About The Position

At Algolia, we’re proud to be a pioneer and market leader in AI Search, empowering 17,000+ businesses to deliver blazing-fast, predictive search and browse experiences at internet scale. Every week, we power over 30 billion search requests — four times more than Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex, and DuckDuckGo combined.
In 2021, we raised $150 million in Series D funding, quadrupling our valuation to $2.25 billion. This strong foundation enables us to keep investing in our market-leading platform and serving incredible customers like Under Armour, PetSmart, Stripe, Gymshark, and Walgreens.
At Algolia, we are passionate about helping developers & product teams connect their users with what matters most in milliseconds! To ensure our users make the most out of Algolia’s powerful features, we need to first make sure that they understand our offerings and are able to set everything up quickly.
The Growth org aims to help Algolia grow by working on changes in the product, introducing new features, and providing the best possible user experience. You will get to shape the user experience of our customers as they start using Algolia, help create a new Growth platform, mentor software engineers, and introduce best practices.
A few projects we’ve worked on recently include:
New data integrations with other developer platforms
New marketplace and billing integrations
New internal platforms such as notifications, experimentation, feature flagging
AI based data processing platforms
Your role will consist of:

Requirements

• Passion about delivering the best UX to diverse sets of users in various industries (engineers, marketers, merchandisers, etc.)
• Mindset to take data driven decisions and analysing impact of the changes you introduce
• Experience with event driven infrastructure in GCP or AWS
• Experience with a server-side typed or untyped language
• We use Ruby and have plans to integrate more Golang, so willingness to learn is important

Nice To Haves

• Experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, React, HTML/CSS – while the role is backend leaning, we expect engineers to be able to ship across the stack
• Experience working in a scale-up or Growth team
• Experience with analytics platforms like Amplitude, Hex

Responsibilities

• Coming up with innovative solutions to help users get the most out of Algolia
• Executing experiments and A/B tests to choose the best possible solution
• Collaborating with Product and Design teams to identify and ideate on opportunities
• Mentoring other software engineers and helping them grow
• Designing & developing a scalable growth platform
• Working with a wide range of teams to deliver a solid growth foundation
• Improving engineering quality, processes and tooling
• Helping define the team roadmap
• We follow a bottom-up approach: the teams come up with their own initiatives targeting our metrics and execute on them

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees