Software Engineer - Search Platform at Algolia

Algolia is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Metis SDK team in Paris, France. Metis is Algolia's cloud-based scalable architecture for NeuralSearch, its AI search engine, incorporating both keyword and vector search. The role involves understanding and solving challenges related to complex distributed systems and designing and maintaining reusable libraries and frameworks for internal teams. The team is composed of remote engineers with diverse skill sets, and the candidate's experience will contribute to this diversity.

What this role involves:

• Contributing to the design and development of libraries and frameworks for the Metis system.
• Being responsible for operations including participation in out-of-hours on-call rota.
• Working with a full-remote team, with the option to be either full-remote, hybrid or office based (Paris).
• Being responsible for the quality and soundness of the system.
• Sharing expertise on distributed systems.
• Collaborating with other teams to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve high impact issues.

Requirements:

• 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 ($50-200M ARR range, high growth, lots of change and building internal infrastructure).

Algolia offers:

• A flexible workplace model with options for full-remote, hybrid, or office-based work.