Software Engineer, Search Ranking
Algolia was built to help users deliver an intuitive search-as-you-type experience on their websites and mobile apps. We provide a search API used by thousands of customers in more than 100 countries. Billions of search queries are answered every month thanks to the code we push into production every day.Join the AI Search Group: Enhancing Core Search CapabilitiesThe Relevance Group is dedicated to advancing the core search experience by improving both pre-query relevance (Understanding) and post-query relevance (Re-Ranking). We’re responsible for key customer-facing features like Query Suggestions, Dynamic Synonym Suggestions, AI Re-Ranking, and Query Categorization. Weâre looking for problem solvers with an entrepreneurial mindsetâpeople who focus on outcomes and use data to drive decisions. If you’re passionate about optimizing search relevance and applying AI thoughtfully to achieve measurable results for customers, we’d love to hear from you!The team is composed of engineers, with different skill sets and backgrounds. Your experience, your knowledge and your perspective will add to this diversity and help the team deliver products that make a difference.YOU WILL:
Be a key contributor to the design and development of ranking & understanding features
Collaborate with a team that includes a variety of roles, ranging from front-end developers to machine learning specialists.
Be responsible for the quality and soundness of our pipelines
YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF YOU HAVE:
Experience designing and operating pipelines in production
Experience working with large datasets and high traffic
An interest in solving Ranking challenges
Experience in building and maintaining API services
Rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
Experience using one of the major cloud providers (GCP, AWS or Azure)
Excellent spoken and written English skills
NICE TO HAVE:
Experience operating AI models in production environments
Experience in Go or Python
Experience in Kubernetes
Sensitivity to data driven decision making, and exploring datasets with SQL
Sensitivity to end user experience
#LI-RemoteFLEXIBLE WORKPLACE STRATEGY:Algoliaâs 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 individualâs 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.While we have a global presence with physical offices in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney and Bucharest, we also offer many of our team members the option to work remotely either as fully remote or hybrid-remote employees. Please note that 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 nature of the role it may be available with either a hybrid-remote or in-office schedule.ABOUT US:Algolia prides itself on being a pioneer and market leader offering an AI Search solution that empowers 17,000+ businesses to compose customer experiences at internet scale that predict what their users want with blazing fast search and web browse experience. Algolia powers more than 30 billion search requests a week â four times more than Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex and DuckDuckGo combined.Algolia is part of a cadre of innovative new companies that are driving the next generation of software development, creating APIs that make developersâ lives easier; solutions that are better than building from scratch and better than having to tweak monolithic SaaS solutions.In 2021, the company closed $150 million in series D funding and quadrupled its post-money valuation of $2.25 billion. Being well capitalized enables Algolia to continue to invest in its market leading platform, to better serve its thousands of customersâincluding Under Armor, Petsmart, Stripe, Gymshark, and Walgreens, to name just a few. WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR:Weâre looking for talented, passionate people to build the worldâs best search & discovery technology. As an ownership-driven company, we seek team members who thrive within an environment based on autonomy and diversity. We’re committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace. We care about each other and the world around us, and embrace talented people regardless of their race, age, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, color, veteran status, disability and socioeconomic background.READY TO APPLY?If you share our values and our enthusiasm for building the worldâs best search & discovery technology, weâd love to review your application!
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Be a key contributor to the design and development of ranking & understanding features
Collaborate with a team that includes a variety of roles, ranging from front-end developers to machine learning specialists.
Be responsible for the quality and soundness of our pipelines
YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF YOU HAVE:
Experience designing and operating pipelines in production
Experience working with large datasets and high traffic
An interest in solving Ranking challenges
Experience in building and maintaining API services
Rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
Experience using one of the major cloud providers (GCP, AWS or Azure)
Excellent spoken and written English skills
NICE TO HAVE:
Experience operating AI models in production environments
Experience in Go or Python
Experience in Kubernetes
Sensitivity to data driven decision making, and exploring datasets with SQL
Sensitivity to end user experience
#LI-RemoteFLEXIBLE WORKPLACE STRATEGY:Algoliaâs 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 individualâs 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.While we have a global presence with physical offices in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney and Bucharest, we also offer many of our team members the option to work remotely either as fully remote or hybrid-remote employees. Please note that 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 nature of the role it may be available with either a hybrid-remote or in-office schedule.ABOUT US:Algolia prides itself on being a pioneer and market leader offering an AI Search solution that empowers 17,000+ businesses to compose customer experiences at internet scale that predict what their users want with blazing fast search and web browse experience. Algolia powers more than 30 billion search requests a week â four times more than Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex and DuckDuckGo combined.Algolia is part of a cadre of innovative new companies that are driving the next generation of software development, creating APIs that make developersâ lives easier; solutions that are better than building from scratch and better than having to tweak monolithic SaaS solutions.In 2021, the company closed $150 million in series D funding and quadrupled its post-money valuation of $2.25 billion. Being well capitalized enables Algolia to continue to invest in its market leading platform, to better serve its thousands of customersâincluding Under Armor, Petsmart, Stripe, Gymshark, and Walgreens, to name just a few. WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR:Weâre looking for talented, passionate people to build the worldâs best search & discovery technology. As an ownership-driven company, we seek team members who thrive within an environment based on autonomy and diversity. We’re committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace. We care about each other and the world around us, and embrace talented people regardless of their race, age, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, color, veteran status, disability and socioeconomic background.READY TO APPLY?If you share our values and our enthusiasm for building the worldâs best search & discovery technology, weâd love to review your application!
Apply Now