Algolia - Principal Software Engineer, Frontend Experiences
Requirements
• Excellent communication and organization skills • 10+ years of experience, with a track record of setting technical direction across multiple teams • Experience as a thought leader/standard-bearer for engineers, inside and outside the company (talks, open source, writing) • thought leader/standard-bearer • Proven experience leading engineers on large, cross-cutting projects • leading engineers on large, cross-cutting projects • Extensive experience designing full stack solutions, interacting with microservice architectures, and strong grounding beyond the frontend (APIs, backend services, delivery infrastructure) to make sound end-to-end trade-offs • designing full stack solutions • Deep frontend expertise (TypeScript, modern web platform, React and other major frameworks, accessibility, bundle size and runtime performance) • Deep frontend expertise • Experience designing and maintaining public libraries, SDKs or design systems, with a feel for API ergonomics and a track record of managing breaking changes • designing and maintaining public libraries, SDKs or design systems • Experience building complex, high traffic & multi products web applications such as dashboards or admin consoles, and leading cross-team UI consolidation efforts • building complex, high traffic & multi products web applications • Interest in conversational and agentic interfaces (chat, streaming responses, tool-driven workflows) and in the architecture needed to support them • conversational and agentic interfaces • Familiarity with search UX patterns and with generative AI and agentic experiences is a plus • Preference for candidates with experience at our current stage and beyond (over 10,000 customers, $50-200M ARR range, high growth, lots of change and building internal infrastructure). • Algolia does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, military status, veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. • GRIT - Problem-solving and perseverance capability in an ever-changing and growing environment. • TRUST - Willingness to trust our co-workers and to take ownership. • TRUST • CANDOR - Ability to receive and give constructive feedback. • CANDOR • CARE - Genuine care about other team members, our clients and the decisions we make in the company. • HUMILITY - Aptitude for learning from others, putting ego aside. • HUMILITY • We’re looking for talented, passionate people to help build the world’s best search and discovery technology. 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. • IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR CANDIDATES - Recruitment Fraud Notice • We’ve recently seen an increase in recruitment scams targeting job seekers. To help protect yourself, please keep the following in mind: • Our open positions may appear on third-party job boards, but the best way to apply safely is directly through our careers page. • best way to apply safely • careers page • All genuine communication from Algolia will come from an @algolia.com email address. If you receive an email from someone claiming to work at Algolia who does not have an @algolia.com email address, please do not respond or share any personal information. • @algolia.com • We’ll never ask for payments, purchases, or financial details during the hiring process. • never ask for payments, purchases, or financial details • READY TO APPLY? • READY TO APPLY? • If you share our values and our enthusiasm for building the world’s best search & discovery technology, we’d love to review your application!
Responsibilities
• Defining the multi-year technical vision for Algolia's front-end platform, and turning it into roadmaps and projects that several teams can execute; • Defining the multi-year technical vision • Playing an active role in the evolution of the Algolia Dashboard: shaping the experience architecture, the component strategy and the technical foundations for conversational and agentic UX, and partnering with engineering, product and design leadership to sequence delivery; • Playing an active role in the evolution of the Algolia Dashboard • Driving convergence on a shared component library, reducing duplicated components and inconsistent patterns across product surfaces; • Driving convergence on a shared component library • Designing and delivering solutions that will scale with significant volumes, be highly available, performant and resilient, including on pages and apps we do not control; • Designing and delivering solutions • Owning solutions, taking them all the way through delivery to adoption by engineering teams and customers; • Owning solutions • Shaping API design, versioning and backward-compatibility strategy for public libraries used by a large developer community; • Shaping API design, versioning and backward-compatibility strategy • Embodying technical expertise, that the team can refer to for advice or validation of a solution; • Embodying technical expertise • Setting engineering standards and best practices to be followed by engineers • Setting engineering standards and best practices
Benefits
• €108.000 - €135.000 EUR • FLEXIBLE WORKPLACE STRATEGY: • Algolia’s flexible workplace model is designed to empower all Algolians to fulfill our mission to power search and discovery with ease. We place an emphasis on an individual’s impact, contribution, and output, over their physical location. Algolia is a high-trust environment and many of our team members have the autonomy to choose where they want to work and when. • We have a global presence with offices in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney and Bucharest, however we also offer many of our team members the option to work remotely either as fully remote or hybrid-remote employees. Positions listed as "Remote" are only available for remote work within the specified country. Positions listed within a specific city are only available in that location - depending on the role it may be available with either a hybrid-remote or in-office schedule. • Positions listed as "Remote" are only available for remote work within the specified country. Positions listed within a specific city are only available in that location - depending on the role it may be available with either a hybrid-remote or in-office schedule.
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