Software Engineer, Growth

Algolia is the retrieval intelligence layer that powers search and product discovery for thousands of customers with high reliability and low latency. The company is seeking a Software Engineer, Growth to improve onboarding, build growth platforms, and help users get value from Algolia through iterative product changes, experimentation, and collaboration with Product and Design teams.

Responsibilities:

• Building solutions to help users get the most out of Algolia
• Running experiments and A/B tests to help choose the best possible solution
• Collaborating with Product and Design teams to explore opportunities
• Contributing to the evolution of our Growth platform, ensuring it scales with our customers and internal teams
• Working with a range of teams to deliver a solid growth foundation
• Writing high-quality, well-tested code and participating in code reviews
• Contributing to improvements in engineering quality, processes, and tooling
• Bringing ideas to the team roadmap and gradually owning projects from discovery through delivery

Requirements:

• • Passion about delivering the best UX to diverse sets of users in various industries (engineers, marketers, merchandisers, etc.)
• • A mindset to make data-informed decisions and understand the impact of the changes you introduce
• • Some experience with, or a strong interest in, event-driven infrastructure in GCP or AWS
• • Experience building production applications with a backend language (we use Ruby today and are exploring Go)
• • Comfortable working across the stack or excited to grow into full-stack development with TypeScript, React, and modern frontend tools
• • Experience working in a scale-up or Growth team
• • Experience with analytics platforms like Amplitude, Hex