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. This role involves defining the technical direction, mentoring engineers, and ensuring the team's services are highly available and reliable.

The Engineering Manager will collaborate with product managers and designers to define the team roadmap and interface with various teams to build a solid growth foundation. The ideal candidate possesses strong communication skills, experience in Agile methodology, and a data-driven mindset.

Algolia prides itself on being a pioneer and market leader offering an AI Search solution and emphasizes impact, contribution, and output, over their physical location.

Role Involves:

• Defining technical direction and strategy.
• Mentoring front and back software engineers and machine learning engineers.
• Taking responsibility for technical decisions.
• Designing and implementing monitoring and alerting systems.
• Improving engineering quality, processes, and tooling.
• Collaborating with product managers and designers.
• Interfacing with a wide range of teams.

Requirements:

• 2+ years of engineering management experience.
• 5+ years of engineering experience.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Data-driven decision-making mindset.
• Fluency in Agile methodology.

What Algolia Offers:

• A flexible workplace strategy, empowering employees to choose their work location.
• An environment based on autonomy and diversity.