Senior Engineering Lead, Meilisearch
Experience Team
+ Stock options
Open source search engine
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Open source search engine
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Stock options
21-100 employees
Company mission
Meilisearch's mission is to help programmers create great search experiences.
Role
Who you are
- You balance technical depth with strategic thinking
- You thrive in collaborative environments and bring out the best in others
- You're passionate about customer impact and iterative delivery
- You're excited about AI's potential and can help orient a team toward that future while staying critically minded on it’s application
- You can make tough technical decisions while building consensus
- You're comfortable with ambiguity and can adapt quickly
- 8-12+ years of software development experience
- Deep Ruby on Rails expertise (non-negotiable)
- Experience with React, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub Actions
- Background in systems engineering & interest in learning Rust fundamentals, understanding our search engine architecture
- Cross-functional collaboration with product stakeholders
- 3+ years technical leadership/mentoring experience
- Strong communication skills
Desirable
- Additional backend languages (Rust, Python, Node.js, etc.)
- Search/database technology background
- AI/ML experience
What the job involves
- Join Meilisearch's Experience team as a Senior Engineering Lead (Experience Team), bridging technical excellence with strategic vision
- In this role you'll split your time between development and technical leadership
- You’ll steer our team to technical and operational excellence while ensuring customers receive maximum value through rapid, iterative delivery
- Work in partnership with our Head of Experience & Engineering Operations to guide technical decisions, mentor developers, and ensure meaningful customer impact
- Partner closely with the Head of Experience & Engineering Operations to drive technical decisions and represent team vision to stakeholders
- Ensure development aligns with product strategy while orienting the team toward innovation
- Champion iterative delivery approaches that get value to customers quickly
- Ensure we deeply understand our customers and respond to their needs through rapid feedback loops & ownership of the customer journey
- Mentor and guide a team of developers, creating space for their technical growth and best ideas
- Foster collaborative problem-solving while maintaining technical standards and quality guidelines
- Spend approximately 50% of your time coding alongside the team
- Guide architectural decisions and lead by example in code quality and development practices
- Participate in on-call rotation and lead incident response when technical issues arise
- Drive post-incident reviews and implement improvements to prevent future occurrences
- Work closely with product stakeholders to translate complex technical concepts into actionable plans
- Drive process improvements in how we work with other departments and communicate progress
Our take
Search engines have formed the core of digital navigation since the birth of the internet, but despite this, search engines still show room for improvement. Integrating fast, customizable and intelligent search engines often require a lot of configuration and coding, a time-consuming and resource-heavy process.
Meilisearch develops an API for the easy implementation of an open-source search engine, focussing on being fast, customizable and aware of typos, without requiring coding or configuration. Through its API, the search engine facilitates the free application of filters, real-time results, geotagging, language detection, and permissions management, whilst also providing a faster cloud-based alternative that is currently in beta mode.
Internal search engines are nothing new, but Meilisearch’s open-source API approach facilitates complex and next-gen searches that would usually only be possible to businesses with vast resources. Through these innovations, the company claims that its search engine helps users find exactly what they are looking for, without the risk of missing the information due to inadequate search functions. 2022 funding was channeled towards developing the Meilisearch Cloud and its open-source software.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Oct 2022
$15m
SERIES A
Feb 2022
$5.8m
SERIES A
Total funding: $20.8m
Company benefits
- We strongly value the wellness of our employees and are committed to making MeiliSearch a benevolent place to work
- Good work-life balance
- 3 month paid parental leave
- 4 day work week
- Open to fully remote applications
- Mental heal platform
- Sports activities stipend
- Stock options
Company HQ
Saint-Merri, Paris, France
Leadership
Quentin de Quelen
(CEO)Experience as Apprentice Engineer for Apizee from 2014 to 2015. Co-founded MeiliSearch as CEO in 2018.
Clément Renault
(CTO)Graduated with a Masters in Computer Science from Ecole 42 bootcamp. Co-founded MeiliSearch in 2018 as CTO.
Thomas Payet
(COO)Experience as Software Developer for TECH'4'TEAM from 2015 to 2017. Co-founded Meilisearch in 2018 as COO.
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