About Algolia Algolia is a fast growing company that helps users deliver intuitive search and discovery experiences on their websites and mobile apps.
We provide APIs used by thousands of customers in more than 100 countries.
Today, Algolia powers 1.5 Trillion searches a year
– that’s 4 times more than Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Baidu and Yandex combined The Team The Digital Merchandising Product team is enabling companies to optimize their business metrics by personalizing and curating search and discovery experiences mapped to the shopper journey.
This new team will develop a solution dedicated to Algolia’s main vertical: Digital Commerce.
We have ambitious goals ahead of us, including building several new products on top of Algolia existing APIs and capabilities.
We will solve the problems companies are facing when they adopt a Composable Commerce architecture, by allowing Business users to leverage a set of tools (AI models, rules-engine, analytics, and more) in a unified programmable interface.
The Opportunity As a member of the Digital Merchandising team: You will have a direct impact on Algolia’s user adoption and revenue stream You will play a pivotal role in architecting and implementing new products, that will play a central role for the future of Algolia You will be in the driver seat to innovate in the multi-billion dollar market eCommerce industry Your role will consist of: Be a key contributor to the design, development, and operation of the Merchandising API 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: Experience building and working with APIs at scale preferably in Golang Rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices Good spoken and written English skills Preference for candidates with experience at our current stage and beyond (over 10,000 customers, $200-500M ARR range, high growth, lots of change and building internal infrastructure).
Nice to have: Experience in Rails, C++ Fullstack experience Experience working with large datasets and high traffic Experience in Site Reliability Engineering Experience in Kubernetes based deployments 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.
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 impact, contribution, and output are more important than their physical location.
The candidate will be able to choose if, and when, they come into an office on a regular basis.
There will be times when our people are asked to come into an office for “moments that matter:” activities like critical planning meetings and team social gatherings.
Beyond those events, 80% of our workforce may choose the location from where they work in the country in which they were hired.
We have physical offices in San Francisco, NYC, Atlanta, Paris, London, Bucharest, and we will be opening a small office in Austin soon.
About us Millions of developers around the world use Algolia to unleash the power of search across their digital properties.
They use Algolia because we are API-first.
We unlock incredible flexibility.
We build blazing fast speed into our APIs.
We do this because we know developers want to build cool things and innovate.
Under Armour, Lacoste, Birchbox, Stripe, Slack, Medium, Zendesk and 10,000 other companies use Algolia to build not just great search, but search that converts at higher rates because of the relevancy.
We help their customers find the right goods, offers, and content really quickly.
So quickly, in fact, that they don’t go anywhere else.
Algolia helps businesses build and optimize the search and discovery experience resulting in significantly enhanced online engagement, increased conversion rates and enriched lifetime value that generates profitable growth.
Today, Algolia powers 1.5 Trillion searches a year
– that’s 4 times more than Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Baidu and Yandex combined.
Our amazing technology is used by one in eight online users.
Founded in 2012, we’re backed by $184M in funding from Accel Partners, Alven, DAG Ventures, Founders Circle, Owl Rock Capital, Point Nine Capital, SaaStr Fund, Salesforce Ventures, Storm Ventures and World Innovation Lab.
The team is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Paris, London, Tokyo, New York, and Atlanta.
To learn more, visit www.algolia.com .
LI-Hybrid LI-Remote 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 impact, contribution, and output are more important than their physical location.
The majority of employees will be able to choose if, and when, they come into an office on a regular basis.
There will be times when our people are asked to come into an office for “moments that matter:” activities like critical planning meetings and team social gatherings.
Beyond those events, 80% of our workforce may choose the location from where they work in the country in which they were hired.
We have physical offices in San Francisco, NYC, Atlanta, Paris, London, Austin, and Bucharest.
https://www.algolia.com/about/ ABOUT US: Algolia prides itself on being a pioneer and market leader offering an AI-powered, API-First Search & Discovery platform that empowers 12,000 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.
The team is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Paris, London, New York, Austin, Atlanta, and Bucharest .
To learn more, visit www.algolia.com.
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.
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If you share our values and our enthusiasm for building the world’s best search & discovery technology, we’d love to review your application