Software Engineer - Search Platform

Algolia, Inc.; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative technology company is seeking a Software Engineer to join their Metis SDK team. This role involves designing and developing frameworks, ensuring system quality, and operating complex distributed systems. The position offers a flexible work arrangement, allowing full-remote or hybrid options. Candidates should have experience with distributed systems, large datasets, and automated testing. Join a diverse team and help build advanced search solutions that impact over 17,000 businesses worldwide.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and operating distributed systems in production.
• Experience working with large datasets and high traffic.
• High code quality and automated testing.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design and development of libraries and frameworks.
• Participate in out-of-hours on-call rota.
• Ensure quality and soundness of the system.

Skills

Experience designing and operating distributed systems in production

Experience working with large datasets and high traffic

Rigor in high code quality and automated testing

Excellent spoken and written English skills

Tools

Go

Job description

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join the Metis SDK team. Metis is the cloud-based scalable architecture for NeuralSearch, our AI search engine, which incorporates both keyword and vector search. Metis consists of distributed components which orchestrate the building and storage of indices containing customer data and then querying that data to return search results. The role requires understanding and solving the challenges that come with complex distributed systems and designing and maintaining reusable libraries and frameworks for use by multiple internal teams. The team is composed of engineers, most of whom are fully remote, with different skill sets and backgrounds. Your experience, your knowledge and your perspective will add to this diversity and help the team deliver products that make a difference. YOU WILL :

• Be a key contributor to the design and development of libraries and frameworks for the Metis system
• Be responsible for operations including participation in out-of-hours on-call rota
• Work with a full-remote team, with the option to be either full-remote, hybrid or office based (Paris) yourself
• Be responsible for the quality and soundness of the system
• Share your expertise on distributed systems
• Work with other teams to identify, troubleshoot and resolve high impact issues, If you share our values and our enthusiasm for building the world's best search & discovery technology, we'd love to review your application!

Voluntary Self-Identification

For government reporting purposes, we ask candidates to respond to the below self-identification survey. Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in a confidential file. As set forth in Algolia's Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law. We are a federal contractor or subcontractor. The law requires us to provide equal employment opportunity to qualified people with disabilities. We have a goal of having at least 7% of our workers as people with disabilities. The law says we must measure our progress towards this goal. To do this, we must ask applicants and employees if they have a disability or have ever had one. People can become disabled, so we need to ask this question at least every five years.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and operating distributed systems in production
• Experience working with large datasets and high traffic
• Rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
• Excellent spoken and written English skills
• Experience at our current stage and beyond ($50-200 M ARR range, high growth, lots of change and building internal infrastructure).

Nice to have

• Experience in Go
• Experience building and maintaining libraries
• Sensitivity to Site Reliability Engineering

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. We have a global presence with offices in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney and Bucharest, however we also offer many of our team members the option to work remotely either as fully remote or hybrid-remote employees.

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.

About Algolia

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. 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. 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.