Software Engineer, Full Stack

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.

The Team

The Application Experiences team ensures a frictionless experience around strategically important integrations Algolia has with Shopify and BigCommerce. This team will level up our existing integrations and evolve them into channels that Algolia can use to deliver new products to customers.

Our integrations with Shopify and BigCommerce offer the best Search and Discovery experiences natively for any merchants on these platforms and are mission-critical channels for Algolia to drive revenue and continuously shape the future of eCommerce.

The Opportunity

The team is looking for an experienced individual who is well versed in defining, building and operating scalable architectures, with proven strengths in cross-team collaboration, taking solutions all the way through delivery to adoption by other engineering teams.

As a member of the Application Experiences team, you will have a direct impact on Algolia’s revenue stream. You will play a pivotal role in architecting and implementing systems that play a central role across all of Algolia’s integration products. You will also play a role in training/mentoring junior members of the team.

Your role will consist of:

• Architecture, design and develop external and internal experiences for our products, especially our Shopify Application

• Take ownership, research and deliver world class experiences

• Build integrations with external APIs, connectors and API clients: eq., data ingestion pipeline for ecommerce integrations, Shopify Application, and BigCommerce Application

• Help define engineering best practices and processes

• Work closely with the rest of the R&D team to deliver the tools they need to develop next-generation products

You might be a fit if you have:

• Knowledge in some of the following languages: Ruby, NodeJs, Python, Golang

• Experience with at least one of the following frameworks React, Vue.Js, RoR

• A passion for shipping quality code

• You have an eye for great user experiences (UX)

• Experience with eCommerce integrations or building public Shopify apps for eCommerce store owners

• Experience at our current stage and beyond ($50-200M ARR range, high growth, lots of change and building internal infrastructure).

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

• CANDOR - Ability to receive and give constructive feedback.

• CARE - Genuine care about other team members, our clients and the decisions we make in the company.

• HUMILITY- Aptitude for learning from others, putting ego aside.

Team’s current stack:

• Golang, GCP/GKE, pubsub, bigquery, bigtable, CircleCI, terraform

• API Clients: JS, Go, Ruby, RoR

• NodeJS, TS, React, Shopify Polaris

#LI-Remote

Algolia is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, military status, veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The annual base salary compensation range for this role reflects US market pay data within this location. The exact compensation offered for this role may vary depending on specific location and job-related knowledge, technical skills, and experience; and is only one part of our Total Rewards philosophy to compensate and recognize employees for their work.

Remote US: Base Salary Pay Range
$139,000—$200,000 USD

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.

We have a global presence with offices in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney and Bucharest, however 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 - depending on the role it may be available with either a hybrid-remote or in-office schedule.

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.

• CANDOR - Ability to receive and give constructive feedback.

• CARE - Genuine care about other team members, our clients and the decisions we make in the company.

• HUMILITY - Aptitude for learning from others, putting ego aside.

We’re looking for talented, passionate people to help build the world’s best search and discovery technology. We value autonomy, diversity, and collaboration. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is respected and supported—regardless of race, age, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, color, veteran status, disability, or socioeconomic background.

IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR CANDIDATES - Recruitment Fraud Notice

We’ve recently seen an increase in recruitment scams targeting job seekers. To help protect yourself, please keep the following in mind:

• Our open positions may appear on third-party job boards, but the best way to apply safely is directly through our careers page.

• All genuine communication from Algolia will come from an @algolia.com email address. If you receive an email from someone claiming to work at Algolia who does not have an @algolia.com email address, please do not respond or share any personal information.

• We’ll never ask for payments, purchases, or financial details during the hiring process.

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!