Engineering Manager, Algolia
Data Connectors Platform
Site search and discovery powered by AI
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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 3+ years of engineering management experience and 5+ years of engineering experience
- Are comfortable with our tech stack. Go/GCP based backend, React frontend
- Experienced with data heavy products and platforms
- Are an excellent communicator able to translate product requirements into technical tasks and vice-versa
- Are capable of jumping in the trenches with the engineers — managing incidents, handling on-call, etc
- We’re looking for talented, passionate people to build the world’s best search & discovery technology
- As an ownership-driven company, we seek team members who thrive within an environment based on autonomy and diversity. We're committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace
What the job involves
- As an Engineering Manager on the Connectors Platform Team, you'll lead a team that develops products enabling our customers to seamlessly integrate their data into Algolia
- Join our team and play a key role in shaping the future of data ingestion at Algolia
- You will have the opportunity to design and develop the core platform that empowers our customers and internal engineering teams to seamlessly integrate their data with Algolia's powerful search and discovery capabilities
- Leading a team, as well as hiring, onboarding, and fostering professional development
- Working closely with other EMs and Product teams to build quality products
- Proven ability to inspire and guide team members, with excellent communication skills
- Leading both backend and frontend engineers
- Ability to plan, build teams, and manage execution to deliver on commitments reliably
- These products encompass a wide range of data integration and entry points, including:
- Algolia API clients
- Data Transformation services (internal and customer-facing)
- Shopify, Commercetools, and BigCommerce integrations
- AI Enrichment service
- Connectors Platform (supports common data sources like JSON, BigQuery, and MySQL, etc)
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
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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