Software Engineer, Events

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 Events team owns Algolia’s customer-facing Events API, which lets users send key events into the Algolia system. These events power analytics, personalization, and other features that drive real business impact for our customers. We are continuing to expand and improve this existing system, meaning you’ll be instrumental in quickly onboarding to a mature codebase, learning it quickly, and helping shape its future.

As a Full Stack Software Engineer, you’ll work across backend and frontend code to build reliable event capture, processing, and integration flows. While most of the role focuses on backend engineering in Go, you’ll also be responsible for improving and maintaining our Rails and React based frontend and our connectors to third party tools such as Segment and Google Analytics.

You’ll:

• Take ownership of an existing product, rapidly learning its architecture and improving its reliability.
• Build, maintain, and evolve backend services in Go on GCP and Kubernetes, as well as our frontend Rails and React applications.
• Write clean, testable, and scalable code that balances speed and quality.
• Partner with product managers and other engineers to deliver features that enable customers to send events to Algolia easily.
• Investigate and debug production issues to ensure high uptime for a critical API.

This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys digging into existing systems, quickly building context, and then driving improvements that scale.

Must-haves

• Around 4+ years of software engineering experience, ideally across backend and frontend systems.
• Experience in Go, with comfort working in cloud-native environments (GCP, Kubernetes).
• Ability to quickly understand and onboard onto existing codebases.
• Some familiarity with frontend frameworks (React, Rails, or similar).
• Strong collaboration and problem-solving skills in cross-functional teams.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience integrating with Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Segment, or similar tracking/analytics tools.
• Prior exposure to event-driven systems or data pipelines.
• Knowledge of observability, monitoring, or performance optimization in production systems.

• 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

Golang backend built on GCP, Kubernetes, and Pub/Sub that integrates with our Rails and React application.

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!