Senior Software Engineer - AI Search Personalization

Algolia is set to enable every company to create world-class Search and Discovery experiences with an API-first approach. Performance and Scalability is at the heart of our mission: we power 1.5 trillion searches a year, for 10K+ customers all over the world. 

If you're a problem solver, able to think outside the box and eager to nurture others and learn from them, then this is your challenge!

The Team

The Data Ingestion team ensures a frictionless flow of data between customers and Algolia’s platform. This new group will provide a platform for Algolia products to collect, compose, and consume data.

Data ingestion is a mission-critical capability for the Algolia product platform. At its core, Algolia is a data company. The products and services that drive the most value for Algolia depend on access to customer data. That means the speed and ease at which customers can send their data to Algolia can heavily influence the success of onboarding a new customer, expanding to a new use case, or adopting new features. 

The Opportunity

The team is looking for an experienced individual who is well versed in defining, building and operating scalable architectures, with proven strengths in cross-team collaboration, taking solutions all the way through delivery to adoption by other engineering teams.

As a senior member of the Data ingestion team, you will have a direct impact on Algolia’s revenue stream. You will play a pivotal role in architecting and implementing systems that play a central role across all of Algolia’s products. You will also play a role in training/mentoring and leading team members.

Your role will consist of: 

• Build a self-service,  scalable and distributed platform that can seamlessly scale to handle billions of records per day

• Build data pipelines for collection, storage, processing, and analysis of data

• Build integrations with external APIs, connectors and services: eq. Firebase, Shopify, etc.

• Work closely with the rest of the R&D team to deliver the tools they need to develop next-generation products


You might be a fit if you have:

• Experience building and operating distributed systems at scale

• Experience designing and building data pipelines
• Experience designing new applications with reliability, operability, and availability in mind
• Experience with Public Cloud Providers such as GCP, AWS or Microsoft Azure

• Excellent communication and organization skills
• Experience at our current stage and beyond ($50-200M ARR range, high growth, lots of change and building internal infrastructure).

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.

Team’s current stack:

• Golang, GCP/GKE, pubsub, bigquery, bigtable, CircleCI, terraform
• API Clients: JS, Java, Scala, Go, Python, C#, Ruby, Swift, Kotlin, RoR, Symfony, Laravel
• NodeJS, TS, React, Shopify Polaris

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Algolia is committed to providing Equal Opportunities in Employment to all applicants and employees regardless of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, military status, veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The annual base salary range for this role in New York City reflects US market pay data within this location. The base pay offered for this role may vary depending on job-related knowledge, technical skills, and experience; and is only one part of our Total Rewards philosophy to compensate and recognize employees for their work. There are 5 total compensation elements: Cash: Base Salary + Bonus or Commission, Equity, Benefits & Perks, and Experience. Algolia provides comprehensive employee Benefits including:  health insurance, life and AD&D insurance, a retirement investment plan, flexible paid time off.

New York City Pay Range$100,000—$200,000 USD

 

REMOTE STRATEGY:

Algolia’s workplace strategy, Hybrid Remote, is designed to harness the power of the opportunities that remote work offers both employees and the company, while also providing an engaging in-office experience for the times when an employee is in an office. Our workplace approach reflects the belief that an employee’s imp