Engineering Team Lead, Algolia
Billing & Usage
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501-1000 employees
Company mission
Algolia's mission is to change the way people interact with data.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years in a managing/leading role
- Designed and operated data pipelines with high volume and throughput
- Experience designing data intensive applications leveraging relational (e.g. PostgreSQL) or NoSQL (e.g. Bigtable) databases
- Experience designing new applications with reliability, operability, and availability in mind
- Experience writing robust Go code
- Experience with GCP (especially Bigtable/BigQuery), Kubernetes, and Terraform
- 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
What the job involves
- The Usage team aims to help Algolia grow as an agile business. To achieve that, we are building a powerful and flexible Usage Platform, allowing every product team in the company to release, track and monetize new products, while ensuring that customers understand and control their usage
- To that end, we are looking for a Team Lead to join the team and help us scale our Usage Platform
- You will work on features and services that are critical for Algolia, from data pipelines ingesting very large amounts of logs from all our products to APIs that are relied upon to alert and charge customers based on their usage
- You will also play a role in training, mentoring and leading team members
- Help the team plan, execute and ship releases respecting timelines and high-quality development, working closely with the product and leadership teams
- Hire, coach and mentor engineers to excel at their work and grow
- Be a key contributor to the design, development, operation and deployment of all features of the Usage Platform processing pipelines and APIs
- Be responsible for the quality and the robustness of the APIs and services
- Improve engineering quality, processes and tooling
- Work closely with the team’s Product Manager to help define the roadmap and assist internal stakeholders (other product teams) with releasing new products
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
Articles
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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