About the role
<div class="content-intro"><p>At Algolia, we’re proud to be a pioneer and market leader in AI Search, empowering 17,000+ businesses to deliver blazing-fast, predictive search and browse experiences at internet scale. Every week, we power over 30 billion search requests — four times more than Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex, and DuckDuckGo combined.</p> <p>In 2021, we raised $150 million in Series D funding, quadrupling our valuation to $2.25 billion. This strong foundation enables us to keep investing in our market-leading platform and serving incredible customers like Under Armour, PetSmart, Stripe, Gymshark, and Walgreens.</p></div><p><strong>About the Team</strong></p> <p>Algolia’s Engineering team builds the core infrastructure and product features that power real-time search and discovery for thousands of customers around the world. This includes backend services, frontend components, site reliability, and ML-powered capabilities. The team is distributed, collaborative, and committed to technical excellence and continuous learning.</p> <p>As an <strong>Engineering Director</strong>, you will lead multiple teams or a critical product area, working closely with Engineering Managers, Product, and Design to deliver scalable, reliable, and high-impact solutions. You will play a key role in translating company strategy into execution, while building strong, autonomous teams and fostering engineering excellence.</p> <p><strong>Your Role Will Consist Of:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Leading a <strong>group of engineering teams (via Engineering Managers and Senior ICs)</strong>, ensuring alignment with product and company priorities</li> <li>Demonstrates strong AI leadership within the engineering organization by fostering a culture of <strong>continuous improvement</strong> and proactively evaluating and applying emerging AI technologies to enhance productivity, efficiency, and organizational performance across the broader technology function.</li> <li>Owning <strong>delivery, execution, and operational excellence</strong> for a defined product or platform area</li> <li>Partnering closely with <strong>Product, Design, and cross-functional stakeholders</strong> to shape roadmaps and ensure successful delivery of customer value</li> <li>Driving <strong>engineering best practices</strong> across system design, scalability, reliability, and performance</li> <li>Being a member of Algolia’s senior technology leadership team, with significant contributions to <strong>engineering excellence</strong> and the <strong>high performance</strong> of the global technology organization, extending beyond the immediate area of responsibility.</li> <li>Supporting and coaching &