Software Engineer, Algolia
Scale
Site search and discovery powered by AI
Job no longer available
Site search and discovery powered by AI
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Algolia's mission is to change the way people interact with data.
Role
Who you are
- 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
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Back-end Engineer to grow our Engines team. The team provides the main Search API for Algolia
- They build and maintain the Core Search Engine to provide the best performance and scalability for our customers
- 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
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
While in-site searching has been available for some time from web search servers such as Google and Bing, its functionality is limited due to it relying on general web scraping techniques which can miss relevant information. By contrast Algolia indexes only the company's site, allowing its search to serve accurate results extremely swiftly, which helps to drive sales conversions aside from making sites far more usable. The efficacy of this solution can be seen from its customer base of over 10,000 companies including the likes of Slack, Zendesk and Lacoste.
To diversify and increase the product range, Algolia have expanded into other real-time APIs such as product recommendations available for eCommerce websites. With the company performing extremely well over the last few years, Algolia have recruited key senior executives to futher its growth. As the company continues to scale it seems likely that an IPO is not too distant a prospect.
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
33% female employees
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jul 2021
$150m
SERIES D
Oct 2019
$110m
SERIES C
Total funding: $334m
Company benefits
- Health Insurance
- Mental Health Care
- Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Life Insurance
Company values
- Grit - We thrive outside of our comfort zone, pushing ourselves to go ever further. We think long-term and constantly strive to be better, even if things don't always go as expected
- Trust - We trust each other just as we trust our users. We earn that trust by listening to each other, following through with our commitments and keeping our words
- Care - We want the best for our customers, community & colleagues. We go above and beyond to make sure they are happy
- Candor - We are open and honest. We give each other praise and criticism because we want to challenge each other and help one another grow
- Humility - We want our teammates to succeed as much as we do ourselves. We believe each team member is as important as the other and we approach each new challenge knowing that we may not have all the answer
Company HQ
Barron Park, Palo Alto, CA
Founders
Bernadette Nixon
(CEO, not founder)Was previously CEO of Alfresco. Before that, was CRO at SDL and SVP & GM for OpenText
People progressing
Joined as an Account Executive. Promoted to Senior Account Executive after 1 year. They have been promoted to Director of Sales, Northern Europe.
Joined as an Enterprise Account Executive. Promoted to Director of Enterprise Sales after 2 years. Then promoted again to Head of Sales after 1 year. They are currently the Vice President of Sales for EMEA & APAC regions.
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