Senior Software Engineer, Algolia

• If you're passionate about optimizing search relevance and applying AI thoughtfully to achieve measurable results for customers, we'd love to hear from you!
• Experience designing and operating pipelines in production
• Experience working with large datasets and high traffic
• An interest in solving Ranking challenges
• Experience in building and maintaining API services
• Rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
• Experience using one of the major cloud providers (GCP, AWS or Azure)
• Excellent spoken and written English skills
• Sensitivity to data driven decision making, and exploring datasets with SQL

Desirable

• The Relevance Group is dedicated to advancing the core search experience by improving both pre-query relevance (Understanding) and post-query relevance (Re-Ranking)
• We're responsible for key customer-facing features like Query Suggestions, Dynamic Synonym Suggestions, AI Re-Ranking, and Query Categorization. We’re looking for problem solvers with an entrepreneurial mindset—people who focus on outcomes and use data to drive decisions
• The team is composed of engineers, 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 ranking & understanding features
• Collaborate with a team that includes a variety of roles, ranging from front-end developers to machine learning specialists
• Be responsible for the quality and soundness of our pipelines