Senior Software Engineer, Algolia

• Experience designing and operating distributed systems in production
• Experience working with large datasets and high traffic
• Rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
• Excellent spoken and written English skills
• Experience at our current stage and beyond ($50-200M ARR range, high growth, lots of change and building internal infrastructure)
• WE’RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO CAN LIVE OUR VALUES:
• GRIT - Problem-solving and perseverance capability in an ever-changing and growing environment
• TRUST - Willingness to trust our co-workers and to take ownership
• CANDOR - Ability to receive and give constructive feedback
• CARE - Genuine care about other team members, our clients and the decisions we make in the company
• HUMILITY - Aptitude for learning from others, putting ego aside

Desirable

• We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Search team. We are responsible the cloud-based scalable architecture for NeuralSearch, our AI search engine, which incorporates both keyword and vector search
• Our work consists of distributed components which orchestrate the building and storage of indices containing customer data and then querying that data to return search results
• The role requires understanding and solving the challenges that come with complex distributed systems
• The team is composed of engineers, most of whom are fully remote, with different skill sets and backgrounds. Your experience, your knowledge and your perspective will add to this diversity and help the team deliver products that make a difference
• Be a key contributor to the design and development of search at Algolia
• Be responsible for operations for search including participation in out-of-hours on-call rota
• Be responsible for the quality and soundness of the system
• Share your expertise on distributed systems
• Work with other teams to identify, troubleshoot and resolve high impact issues