Software Engineer, Algolia
Growth
$136.4-196.1k
AI search solutions
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AI search solutions
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$136.4-196.1k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help businesses and developers understand their online users and show them exactly what they need.
Role
Who you are
- Passion about delivering the best UX to diverse sets of users in various industries (engineers, marketers, merchandisers, etc.)
- A mindset to make data-informed decisions and understand the impact of the changes you introduce
- Some experience with, or a strong interest in, event-driven infrastructure in GCP or AWS
- Experience building production applications with a backend language (we use Ruby today and are exploring Go)
- Comfortable working across the stack or excited to grow into full-stack development with TypeScript, React, and modern frontend tools
Desirable
- Experience working in a scale-up or Growth team
- Experience with analytics platforms like Amplitude, Hex
What the job involves
- The Growth org aims to help Algolia grow by working on changes in the product, introducing new features, and providing the best possible user experience. You will get to shape the user experience of our customers as they start using Algolia, help create a new Growth platform, collaborate with other engineers, and contribute to engineering best practices
- We are looking for engineers who enjoy working close to users, shipping iteratively, measuring impact, and using data to decide what comes next
- A few projects we’ve worked on recently include:
- Building AI-powered experiences that help developers launch with Algolia faster
- Improving activation journeys through experimentation and personalization
- Scaling developer tools like DocSearch and integrations used by thousands of applications
- Building Growth platforms around experimentation, notifications, and product insights
- Building solutions to help users get the most out of Algolia
- Running experiments and A/B tests to help choose the best possible solution
- Collaborating with Product and Design teams to explore opportunities
- Contributing to the evolution of our Growth platform, ensuring it scales with our customers and internal teams
- Working with a range of teams to deliver a solid growth foundation
- Writing high-quality, well-tested code and participating in code reviews
- Contributing to improvements in engineering quality, processes, and tooling
- Bringing ideas to the team roadmap and gradually owning projects from discovery through delivery
- We follow a bottom-up approach: the teams come up with their own initiatives targeting our metrics and execute on them
Our take
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 further its growth. As the company continues to scale it seems likely that an IPO is not too distant a prospect.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jul 2021
$150m
SERIES D
Oct 2019
$110m
SERIES C
Total funding: $334m
Company HQ
Barron Park, Palo Alto, CA
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