Customer Success Engineer, Algolia

• This role is ideal for someone who is deeply curious, loves solving complex technical problems, and is energised by learning and applying new technologies including modern development patterns, cloud infrastructure, and emerging AI capabilities
• Success in this role means being proactive, reliable, and collaborative, balancing customer-facing delivery with internal best practices such as accurate time tracking, strong documentation habits, and ongoing knowledge sharing
• If you’re excited by the idea of shaping customer outcomes, diving into new tools and technologies, and working in a team that values craftsmanship, curiosity, and continuous learning, we’d love to meet you
• Functional knowledge of at least one programming language such as: JavaScript, Java, PHP, C#, Objective-C, Swift, Ruby, Python
• Experience with REST API, database management, and web development technologies
• Experience delivering technical workshops of various nature (training, knowledge transfer, implementation, code review)
• Strong desire to help people solve problems with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to a broad audience
• Proficiency in communicating complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences via phone and email channels
• Excellence in time management, task prioritisation, and evaluation of situational urgency
• Travel to customers' locations may be required

Desirable

• As a Customer Success Engineer at Algolia, you will play a key role in ensuring our customers adopt, implement, and scale our search and discovery platform successfully. You’ll partner closely with customers to deliver high-quality technical onboarding, solution design, best-practice guidance, and hands-on implementation support
• You’ll work across a variety of customer architectures and use cases, helping teams design performant, scalable solutions while championing technical excellence
• You will also support our Professional and Expert Foundation offerings, acting as a technical owner for assigned accounts and ensuring smooth delivery through clear communication, rigorous documentation, and thoughtful stakeholder alignment
• Act as a consultant on a variety of customers, delivering ad-hoc services tailored around their needs
• Scope, shape and present technical workshops to drive Algolia’s adoption
• Advise Algolia’s customers on the best technical and industry practices around search implementation and optimisation
• Work closely with your account’s Customer Success Manager to ensure the customer’s long term health through a world-class support experience
• Work across the organisation and escalate as necessary for confirmation of solutions or other options
• Partner with Product Teams and Engineering to develop subject matter expertise and serve as a product expert to your customers
• Develop, maintain and present comprehensive case status reports to customers on a regularly scheduled meeting
• Proactively identify and work with the customer to resolve technical risks and bottlenecks
• Provide guidance on how to optimise the use of their environment

• If you share our values and our enthusiasm for building the world’s best search & discovery technology, we’d love to review your application!