Software Engineer

Summary

Join Algolia's Engines team as a Back-end Engineer and contribute to the design, development, and operation of our large-scale Search engine system. You will be responsible for the system's quality and will collaborate with other teams to resolve critical issues. This role requires a strong foundation in computer science, expertise in C++ and Golang, and experience with distributed backends. Algolia offers a flexible workplace strategy, allowing for remote or hybrid work options. We value grit, trust, candor, care, and humility in our team members. Algolia is a high-growth company with a strong market position and significant funding.

Requirements

• A rock-solid foundation in Computer Science (data structures, algorithms, software design)
• Rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
• Want to work on a complex C++ codebase + experience working on distributed backends
• Experience in the design of major components and leading engineers in the delivery
• Professional spoken and written English skills

Responsibilities

• Be a key contributor to the design, development, and ultimately operation of the Search engine system at scale
• Be responsible of the quality, soundness of the system
• Work with other teams to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve high impact issues
• Be responsible for operations for Algolia Search including participation in out-of-hours on-call rotation

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience debugging distributed systems in production
• Ability to work in a Kubernetes based environment
• Experience in information retrieval or AI models
• Experience with the problematics around natural language processing

Benefits

• #LI-Remote
• 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 physical 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. Please note that 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 - depending on the nature of the role it may be available with either a hybrid-remote or in-office schedule