Software Engineer | Algolia | Remote (France)

<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Algolia was built to help users deliver an intuitive search-as-you-type experience on their websites and mobile apps. We provide Algolia NeuralSearch, a next-generation vector and keyword search in a single API with powerful, end-to-end AI processing for every query. Our API is used by thousands of customers in more than 100 countries. Billions of search queries are answered every month thanks to the code we push into production every day.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We are seeking a Software Engineer to join our newly established team, ideally with experience in a Go and/or Kubernetes environment—or a strong willingness to learn these technologies. You will play a pivotal role in building a new product from the ground up, focusing on the development of distributed systems and scalable APIs. As part of this team, you&#8217;ll work on innovative solutions, such as merging or customizing result sets from multiple data sources, to enhance our customers&#8217; ability to configure complex search experiences. This is a unique opportunity to shape a new product and drive its technical growth from the early stages.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Your Role Will Consist Of</strong></p>
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<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Be a key contributor to the design and development of the Algolia API</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Be responsible of the quality, soundness of the system</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Work with other teams to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve high impact issues.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Be responsible for operations for Algolia Search including participation in out-of-hours on-call rotation</span></li>
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<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">You Might Be a Fit If You Have</strong></p>
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<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Hands-on experience with programming languages and are comfortable writing, debugging, and optimizing code.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Solid foundation in Computer Science (data structures, algorithms, software design)</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Professional spoken and written English skills</span></li>
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<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Nice To Have</strong></p>
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<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience in Go</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience in Kubernetes</span></li>
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<h2><strong class=" font-semibold">We’re looking for someone who can live our values:</strong></h2>
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<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">GRIT &#8211; Problem-solving and perseverance capability in an ever-changing and growing environment</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">TRUST &#8211; Willingness to trust our co-workers and to take ownership</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">CANDOR &#8211; Ability to receive and give constructive feedback.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">CARE &#8211; Genuine care about other team members, our clients and the decisions we make in the company.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">HUMILITY- Aptitude for learning from others, putting ego aside.</span></li>
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<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">REMOTE STRATEGY:</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Algolia’s flexible workplace model is designed to empower all Algolians to fulfill our mission to power search and discovery with ease. We place an emphasis on an individual’s impact, contribution, and output, over their physical location. Algolia is a high-trust environment and our team members have the autonomy to choose where they want to work and when. We know community comes in many forms and strive to create opportunities for intentional in-person connection in our offices and virtually for our remote colleagues around the world.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We have a global presence with physical offices in San Francisco, NYC, Paris, London, Sydney and Bucharest.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">ABOUT US:</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Algolia prides itself on being a pioneer and market leader offering an AI Search solution that empowers 17,000+ businesses to compose customer experiences at internet scale that predict what their users want with blazing fast search and web browse experience. Algolia powers more than 30 billion search requests a week – four times more than Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex and DuckDuckGo combined.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Algolia is part of a cadre of innovative new companies that are driving the next generation of software development, creating APIs that make developers’ lives easier; solutions that are better than building from scratch and better than having to tweak monolithic SaaS solutions.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">In 2021, the company closed $150 million in series D funding and quadrupled its post-money valuation of $2.25 billion. Being well capitalized enables Algolia to continue to invest in its market leading platform, to better serve its thousands of customers–including Under Armor, Petsmart, Stripe, Gymshark, and Walgreens, to name just a few.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">WHO WE&#8217;RE LOOKING FOR:</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We’re looking for talented, passionate people to build the world’s best search &amp; discovery technology. As an ownership-driven company, we seek team members who thrive within an environment based on autonomy and diversity. We&#8217;re committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace. We care about each other and the world around us, and embrace talented people regardless of their race, age, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, color, veteran status, disability and socioeconomic background.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">READY TO APPLY?</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">If you share our values and our enthusiasm for building the world’s best search &amp; discovery technology, we’d love to review your application!</p>