Software Engineer - Understanding

Posted 7 Days Ago
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Paris, Île-de-France
Mid level
Natural Language Processing • Software
The Role
The Software Engineer will contribute to the design and development of ranking and understanding features, working within a diverse team to ensure quality and soundness of pipelines. Responsibilities include optimizing search relevance and applying AI to achieve measurable results for customers, while collaborating with engineers and machine learning specialists.
Summary Generated by Built In

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 Capabilities


The AI Search 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. We’re looking for problem solvers with an entrepreneurial mindset—people 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, most of whom are fully remote, 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

REMOTE 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 our team members have the autonomy to choose where they want to work and when. We know community comes in many forms and strive to create opportunities for intentional in-person connection in our offices and virtually for our remote colleagues around the world. 

We have a global presence with physical offices in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney and Bucharest.

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 – 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 developers’ 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 customers–including Under Armor, Petsmart, Stripe, Gymshark, and Walgreens, to name just a few. 

WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

We’re looking for talented, passionate people to build the world’s 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 world’s best search & discovery technology, we’d love to review your application!

Top Skills

Go
Python
The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
700 Employees
Remote Workplace
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

Algolia is the search-as-a-service platform that enables companies of all sizes to deliver fast and relevant digital experiences that drive real results. With Algolia, consumers are able to find and discover what they want easily across web, mobile, and voice. Algolia allows developers and business teams to build and optimize engaging search experiences to increase online engagement, conversion and revenue.

Founded in 2012, we're backed by over $175M in funding from Accel Partners, Alven Capital, Point Nine Capital, Storm Ventures, Salesforce Ventures and others. Our most recent fundraising round was our Series D in 2021 in which we raised $150 million. The team is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Paris, London, New York City, Bucharest and Sydney. To learn more, visit www.algolia.com.

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