Senior Software Engineer - Search Platform London, England; Paris, France

At Algolia, we’re proud to be a pioneer and market leader in AI Search, empowering 17,000+ businesses to deliver blazing‑fast, predictive search and browse experiences at internet scale. Every week, we power over 30 billion search requests — four times more than Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex, and DuckDuckGo combined.

In 2021, we raised $150 million in Series D funding, quadrupling our valuation to $2.25 billion. This strong foundation enables us to keep investing in our market‑leading platform and serve incredible customers such as Under Armour, PetSmart, Stripe, Gymshark, and Walgreens.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Metis team. The role involves designing, building, and operating Metis – Algolia’s cloud‑based scalable architecture for NeuralSearch, combining keyword and vector search. Metis orchestrates building and storage of indices with customer data and querying that data to return search results. You will work with distributed systems and solve the challenges that come with complex distributed architectures.

YOU WILL

• Be a key contributor to the design and development of the Metis system
• Be responsible for operations for the Metis system, including participation in out‑of‑hours on‑call rota
• Work with a full‑remote team, with the option to be either full‑remote, hybrid or office‑based (Paris)
• Ensure the quality and soundness of the system
• Share your expertise on distributed systems
• Work with other teams to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve high‑impact issues

YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF YOU HAVE

• Experience designing and operating distributed systems in production
• Experience working with large datasets and high traffic
• Rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and engineering best practices
• Excellent spoken and written English skills
• Experience at our current stage and beyond ($50–200 M ARR range, high growth, lots of change and building internal infrastructure)

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience in Go
• Sensitivity to Site Reliability Engineering

FLEXIBLE WORKPLACE STRATEGY

Algolia’s flexible workplace model empowers employees to fulfill our mission. Many team members have the autonomy to choose where they work and when. We have a global presence with offices in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney and Bucharest, and we offer options to work remotely as fully remote or hybrid‑remote.

WE’RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO CAN LIVE OUR VALUES

• GRIT – Problem‑solving and perseverance in a growing environment
• TRUST – Willingness to trust coworkers and take ownership
• CANDOR – Ability to receive and give constructive feedback
• CARE – Genuine care for teammates, clients, and decisions
• HUMILITY – Willingness to learn from others, putting ego aside

We value autonomy, diversity, and collaboration. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is respected and supported—regardless of race, age, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, color, veteran status, disability, or socioeconomic background.

As set forth in Algolia’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.