Senior Fullstack Engineer, Dashboard

Algolia • Paris, France • 4d ago

Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs

This Senior Fullstack Engineer role sits at a core SaaS intersection: the customer-facing Dashboard and the internal platform that enables other teams to ship safely and consistently. Work spans product surface area, AI-powered dashboard capabilities, and the infrastructure layer behind deployments, reflecting how mature SaaS companies increasingly treat developer experience and platform engineering as first-class product concerns.

Career-wise, the position offers unusually broad leverage for SaaS engineers. It combines fullstack delivery with infrastructure automation, exposing the engineering mechanics that matter when a SaaS product must scale across many teams and frequent releases. Ownership of tooling, standards, and deployment pathways builds transferable skills in platform thinking, reliability, and internal enablement, all of which map well to senior trajectories in SaaS organisations.

The role is best suited to someone who prefers end-to-end accountability and can navigate cross-team coordination without relying on narrowly defined boundaries. It will fit an engineer motivated by improving how software gets built and shipped, not only what gets built, and who is comfortable balancing user experience concerns with operational constraints. It also aligns with professionals who enjoy joining a newly formed team and shaping foundational patterns early.

The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.

Job Description

In the Dashboard Platform team, we're on a mission to empower all developers at Algolia to ship features to our customer-facing Dashboard, with an emphasis on offering a great and consistent customer experience, at scale. In practice, that means:

working on core features of the Algolia Dashboard, including our agentic and AI powered features
building new services powering our infrastructure platform, to enable quick & autonomous deployment for all teams, using Kubernetes, Terraform and AWS
building tooling, features & guidelines that contribute to a great Developer Experience
collaborating with all developers to support the adoption & usage of our tools

We have ambitious goals ahead of us and in that context, we are looking for a Senior Fullstack Engineer, with a heavy focus on infrastructure automation.

We expect you to bring significant experience acquired from a similar role in a former job. Not only will you lead projects in complete autonomy, you will also be accountable for planning ahead, and thinking in terms of what’s best globally for the company rather than locally for your projects. This also means you are expected to ramp up on multiple projects, and orchestrate changes across projects and teams whenever necessary. You will be joining a newly formed team of two senior software engineers, one manager, all of whom are obsessed with helping Algolia build great experience. We're based in Paris but open to remote work!

YOUR ROLE WILL CONSIST OF:

Being a key contributor to operation & deployment of all features of the Dashboard Platform
Taking ownership, research, explore and deliver world-class developer experiences
Sharing your knowledge on software engineering, testing and deployment best practices

YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF YOU HAVE:

Good knowledge of modern infrastructure management with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform on AWS.
Good knowledge of modern web development React, TypeScript, Node, HTML & CSS.
Good knowledge of Ruby on Rails
Rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
You care a lot about Developer Experience
Well-spoken and written English skills

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).

NICE TO HAVE: