Junior Software Engineer, API Clients

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 API Clients team builds and maintains Algolia’s official client libraries, which are critical to making Algolia’s services easy to adopt and integrate. Our clients power core services like Search, Ingestion, Personalization, and Analytics.

• Clients are OpenAPI-driven, available in 11 programming languages, and designed to feel natural in developers’ workflows.

• We provide framework integrations for Rails, Django, Symfony, and Laravel, ensuring Algolia fits seamlessly into existing ecosystems.

• We are also exploring AI-driven automation and agentic coding to redefine the developer experience.

As a Software Engineer on the API Clients team, you will directly improve the developer experience for Algolia’s global customer base. You will:

• Design, expand, and maintain API client build automation

• Continuously improve and standardize the developer experience across languages and frameworks

• Leverage AI tooling and automation to accelerate building, testing, and maintaining clients

• Proficiency in one or more JVM-based languages, with interest in working across multiple ecosystems

• Hands-on experience with several of the following:

  • Languages: Java, TypeScript, Go, Python, PHP, Swift, Kotlin, Scala, Ruby, Dart, C#

  • Core technologies: Docker, Java, TypeScript

  • Frameworks: Rails, Django, Symfony, Laravel

• Curiosity about AI & automation, including agentic coding, MCP, and related emerging technologies

• A mindset focused on delivering high-quality, reliable developer tools that scale globally

• 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

Java, TypeScript, Go, Python, PHP, Swift, Kotlin, Scala, Ruby, Dart, C# with Docker and OpenAPI as the foundation for automation and standardization.

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!