Senior Software Engineer - Dashboard UX & Discovery

Algolia is set to enable every company to create world-class Search and Discovery experiences with an API-first approach. Performance and Scalability is at the heart of our mission: we power 1.5 trillion searches a year, for 10K+ customers all over the world. We see Developer Experience as a key element of our offering: we maintain high-quality SDKs for dozens of languages and platforms. We value Grit, Trust, Candor, Care and Humility. If you're a problem solver, able to think outside the box and eager to nurture others and learn from them, then this is your challenge!

Our mission is to empower companies to push the right content to increase their users’ chances to stumble upon what they’d be interested in and increase the discoverability of their inventory. To this end, our objectives are to:

• Empower customers to use Generative AI to enrich and personalize every step in the shopper’s e-commerce journey.


• Provide a seamless process for customers to set up their Generative Shopping Experience implementation.

Team members have different skill sets, covering the full stack of our AI offering, from the machine learning evaluation to the front-end Dashboard of our customers. Your experience, your knowledge and your perspective will add value to this diversity, and help the team deliver products that make a difference.

We are looking for a Back-end Engineer to grow our Generative Shopping Experience team. As a backend engineer, we expect you to bring good experience acquired from a similar role in a former job.This also means you are expected to ramp up on the project to meet its objectives, lead on topics and coordinate with the other team members to deliver them.

YOUR ROLE WILL CONSIST OF:

• Designing and maintaining the pipeline and APIs of the GSE products within the ecosystem of Algolia.


• Be responsible for the quality, soundness of the system.


• Work within the team to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve high impact issues.

YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF YOU HAVE:

• Experience in a cross-functional team


• Experience working with APIs at scale


• Rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices


• Good spoken and written English skills


• Preference for candidates with experience at our current stage and beyond (over 10,000 customers, $50-200M ARR range, high growth, lots of change and building internal infrastructure).

NICE TO HAVE:

• Experience in Go


• Experience in C++


• Experience in Python


• Experience in SQL


• Curiosity to Site Reliability Engineering


• Familiarity with GCP

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.

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