Software Engineer, Algolia
Personalisation
Site search and discovery powered by AI
Be an early applicant
Site search and discovery powered by AI
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Algolia's mission is to change the way people interact with data.
Role
Who you are
- Have experience with React and Typescript, with opinions about component architecture
- Excel at breaking down complex features into clear, composable building blocks
- Are comfortable diving deep into different layers of the stack to debug issues and improve system understanding
- Have strong focus on user experience to build software
- Take pride in shipping polished features that users love
- Can drive projects forward independently while maintaining clear communication
- Are able to make autonomous decisions for which you will take ownership
Desirable
- Familiarity with Go
- Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform
- Understanding of ML concepts and their practical implications
- Track record of shipping features in collaborative environments
- Experience shipping developer-facing tools or APIs to production
- Experience with rapid prototyping and iteration
What the job involves
- As a FullStack Software Engineer on our team, you'll collaborate closely with senior engineers (Frontend, Machine Learning, Data, and Backend) to design and implement seamless solutions that make onboarding and using our personalization platform a standout experience
- Once aligned on direction, you'll own key features end-to-end, from initial implementation to production deployment
- You'll play a key role in building intuitive, user-friendly interfaces and robust systems that help customers unlock the full potential of our personalisation tools from day one
- Contributing to the frontend ecosystem for personalisation, including frontend libraries and documentation
- Building thoughtfully designed, composable UI components that the team and customers can leverage
- Implementing and owning "backend for frontend" APIs that bridge frontend needs with our core systems
- Building dashboard experiences based on product directions and customer feedback
- Making user-centric decisions while keeping the team informed and aligned
Salary benchmarks
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 futher its growth. As the company continues to scale it seems likely that an IPO is not too distant a prospect.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
33% female employees
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jul 2021
$150m
SERIES D
Oct 2019
$110m
SERIES C
Total funding: $334m
Company benefits
- Health Insurance
- Mental Health Care
- Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Life Insurance
Company values
- Grit - We thrive outside of our comfort zone, pushing ourselves to go ever further. We think long-term and constantly strive to be better, even if things don't always go as expected
- Trust - We trust each other just as we trust our users. We earn that trust by listening to each other, following through with our commitments and keeping our words
- Care - We want the best for our customers, community & colleagues. We go above and beyond to make sure they are happy
- Candor - We are open and honest. We give each other praise and criticism because we want to challenge each other and help one another grow
- Humility - We want our teammates to succeed as much as we do ourselves. We believe each team member is as important as the other and we approach each new challenge knowing that we may not have all the answer
Company HQ
Barron Park, Palo Alto, CA
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Leadership
Bernadette Nixon
(CEO, not founder)Was previously CEO of Alfresco. Before that, was CRO at SDL and SVP & GM for OpenText
People progressing
Joined as an Account Executive. Promoted to Senior Account Executive after 1 year. They have been promoted to Director of Sales, Northern Europe.
Joined as an Enterprise Account Executive. Promoted to Director of Enterprise Sales after 2 years. Then promoted again to Head of Sales after 1 year. They are currently the Vice President of Sales for EMEA & APAC regions.
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