Software Engineer, Control
Algolia (View all Jobs)
Bucharest, Romania
Interview Process
1. Take-home project 2. Onsite discussions and presentation
Programming Languages Mentioned
Golang, JavaScript, Ruby
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 Merchandising Product team is delivering features that shape how users experience and unlock the full value of our platform. We have ambitious goals ahead of us, including building several new products on top of Algolia’s existing APIs and GenAI Studio. Our team has a direct impact on user adoption and revenue stream.
Your role will consist of:
As a Software Engineer at Algolia, you will play a pivotal role in architecting and implementing new products, central to the future of Algolia. You’ll:
- Build services leveraging Generative AI.
- Be a key contributor to the design, development, and operation of our services at scale.
- Be responsible for the quality, reliability and availability of the system.
- Work with other teams to build features and resolve high impact issues.
You might be a fit if you have:
- Around 4+ years of software engineering experience, ideally across backend and frontend systems.
- Experience building frontend experiences preferably in Typescript and React
- Exposure to building and working with APIs at scale preferably in Ruby, Golang
- Rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
- Good spoken and written English skills
Nice to have:
- Experience in Rails backend
- Experience working with streaming APIs, large datasets and high traffic
- Comfortable working in cloud native environments (GCP, Kubernetes)
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
- CARE - Genuine care about other team members, our clients and the decisions we make in the company.
- CANDOR - Ability to receive and give constructive feedback.
- HUMILITY- Aptitude for learning from others, putting ego aside.
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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