Staff Software Engineer, Events
Algolia (View all Jobs)
Paris, France
Interview Process
1. Take-home project 2. Onsite discussions and presentation
Programming Languages Mentioned
Ruby, JavaScript, Golang
Algolia was built to help users deliver an intuitive search-as-you-type experience on their websites and mobile apps. We provide a search API 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.
The Team
The Events team owns Algolia’s customer-facing Events platform, the entry point for sending user interaction data into our system. These events power analytics, personalization, and search relevance improvements for thousands of customers. We are continuing to expand and improve this existing system, meaning you’ll be instrumental in quickly onboarding to a mature codebase, guiding a newly formed team, and shaping the future direction of this critical application.
The role will consist of:
As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in guiding technical strategy, architecture, and execution for our Events platform. You will:
- Lead the design and delivery of complex, cross-team projects, ensuring the API is robust, scalable, and easy to integrate.
- Rapidly onboard to an existing, production-grade codebase, and help your team do the same.
- Shape architectural decisions that impact not just the Events team, but multiple teams across Algolia.
- Mentor engineers, helping them grow their technical skills and confidence while fostering a collaborative, high-trust culture. This role offers a unique opportunity for personal and professional growth.
- Remove bottlenecks and ensure the team operates without single points of failure.
- Work closely with product managers, frontend engineers, and infrastructure teams to align priorities and deliver features that delight our customers. This collaborative approach is at the heart of our success.
You might be a fit if you have:
Must-haves:
- Proven experience in backend systems at scale, ideally in Go.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, and event ingestion pipelines.
- Demonstrated ability to navigate and improve existing large-scale codebases quickly.
- Experience leading cross-team projects with clear technical strategy and measurable outcomes.
- Track record of mentoring and uplifting engineering teams.
Nice-to-haves:
- Experience with GCP and Kubernetes in production environments.
- Exposure to React, Typescript, and Ruby on Rails.
- Familiarity with analytics, telemetry, or personalization data flows.
- Experience in migrating or re-architecting existing systems.
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 backend built on GCP, Kubernetes, and Pub/Sub that integrates with our Rails+React application.
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FLEXIBLE WORKPLACE STRATEGY:
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 many of our team members have the autonomy to choose where they want to work and when.
While we have a global presence with physical offices in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney and Bucharest, we also offer many of our team members the option to work remotely either as fully remote or hybrid-remote employees. Please note that positions listed as "Remote" are only available for remote work within the specified country. Positions listed within a specific city are only available in that location - depending on the nature of the role it may be available with either a hybrid-remote or in-office schedule.
ABOUT US:
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.
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.
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.
WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR:
We’re looking for talented, passionate people to build the world’s best search & discovery technology. As an ownership-driven company, we seek team members who thrive within an environment based on autonomy and diversity. We'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.
READY TO APPLY?
If you share our values and our enthusiasm for building the world’s best search & discovery technology, we’d love to review your application!
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