Senior Software Engineer, Meilisearch

• We're seeking someone with a flexible, full-stack mindset - while you'll primarily work on our Rust-based search engine, you should be interested in and able to understand infrastructure, backend systems, and frontend needs to develop the most appropriate features for our production environment
• Adaptability across our tech stack is essential so that you have the capacity to contribute where its most impactful
• Excellent collaboration skills across disciplines. You will be partnering with backend, front end & infrastructure developers, PMs, documentation, and design teams
• Ability to balance technical depth with strategic thinking
• Comfortable making tough technical decisions and aligning stakeholders
• Adaptable and able to thrive in ambiguous situations
• Flexible mindset, willing to tackle problems outside your initial scope
• 6+ years of experience in C/C++/Rust or equivalent systems programming languages
• Fluent in English (oral and written communication)
• Structured team experience: Proven ability to communicate effectively about your work, share knowledge, and work rigorously on collaborative projects
• Incident management skills: Experience with on-call responsibilities, troubleshooting production issues, and incident response procedures
• Rust interest & experience: Strong interest in the Rust language with hands-on experience implementing at least one Rust project (professional or personal)
• Full-stack flexibility: Interest in and ability to understand infrastructure, backend, and frontend systems to develop appropriate features for production environments

Desirable

• We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Experience team and help us build the future of search technology
• You'll be primarily working on Meilisearch, our blazingly fast and ultra-relevant search engine built in Rust
• As a key member of our Experience team, you'll work in mission-based squads to drive customer retention, attraction and activation initiatives
• This role combines deep technical work with a strong customer focus - you'll collaborate closely with our support team to enhance the customer journey and ensure customers have an excellent experience with Meilisearch
• You will report directly to the Head of Experience & Engineering Operations while working hand-in-hand with other engineers and colleagues across the organisation
• Feature Development: Develop on features such as AI search, personalisation, enhanced data relationships, and search recommendations. Understand our customers, propose & implement new capabilities that support our their real-world needs
• Experience Optimisation: Balance performance and relevancy results to enhance the customer experience, ensuring fast, accurate search results that meet user expectations
• Developer Experience & APIs: Design and build intuitive APIs that make Meilisearch a joy for developers to integrate and use
• Production Reliability: Participate in on-call rotations and incident management to ensure system reliability and quick resolution of production issues
• Support Partnership: Work alongside our Meilisearch Cloud support team to investigate & resolve complex customer issues and improve product experience
• Knowledge Transfer: Coach and support team members on engine internals to enable better customer assistance. Identify patterns where we could make big impacts
• Customer Impact: Contribute to missions focused on customer retention and activation through both performance improvements and new capabilities