Engineering Manager, Understanding at Algolia

Algolia is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead an engineering team within the AI Search Group, focusing on enhancing core keyword search engine capabilities. The AI Search Group is dedicated to improving search relevance, and this role involves defining technical direction, mentoring engineers, and ensuring service reliability.

The Engineering Manager will collaborate with product managers and designers to shape the team's roadmap, improve engineering processes, and interface with various teams to establish a strong growth foundation.

What this role involves:

• Defining the overall technical direction and strategy for the team
• Mentoring and nurturing front and back software engineers and machine learning engineers, helping them grow in their career
• Being responsible for technical decisions taken by the team
• Working alongside the engineers to design and implement monitoring and alerting to ensure high availability, performance and reliability of your team’s services
• Improving engineering quality, processes and tooling
• Collaborating with product managers and designers to help define the team roadmap (we follow a bottom-up approach)
• Interfacing with a wide range of teams to build and evangelize a solid growth foundation

Requirements for this role:

• 2+ years of engineering management experience and 5+ years of engineering experience
• Excellent communicator able to translate product requirements into technical tasks and vice-versa
• Mindset to take data driven decisions and analyzing impact of the changes you introduce
• Fluent in Agile methodology and can lead a project from the idea to production

Algolia offers:

• Flexible Workplace Strategy