Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Software Engineer, Growth role stands out because it sits at the intersection of product engineering and commercial outcomes, a common pressure point in SaaS businesses where activation and onboarding materially affect retention. The remit touches both customer facing flows and internal platform capabilities such as experimentation, feature flagging, notifications, and integrations, signalling a SaaS environment investing in reusable growth infrastructure rather than one-off features.
For a long-term SaaS career, the work builds fluency in how SaaS products scale learning loops: instrumenting behavior, running A/B tests, and turning results into iterative product changes. Experience designing a growth platform and collaborating closely with Product and Design translates well to other SaaS contexts that rely on self-serve adoption, partner ecosystems, and measurable funnels. The emphasis on engineering quality and tooling also develops the operational habits needed when multiple teams depend on shared services.
This role is best suited to an engineer who enjoys ambiguous problem spaces where success is defined by user outcomes and data, not only delivery. It fits someone comfortable mentoring peers, influencing roadmaps, and working across backend and occasional frontend surfaces to ship end-to-end improvements in a SaaS product.
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Job Description
At Algolia, we are passionate about helping developers & product teams connect their users with what matters most in milliseconds! To ensure our users make the most out of Algolia’s powerful features, we need to first make sure that they understand our offerings and are able to set everything up quickly.
The Growth org aims to help Algolia grow by working on changes in the product, introducing new features, and providing the best possible user experience. You will get to shape the user experience of our customers as they start using Algolia, help create a new Growth platform, mentor software engineers, and introduce best practices.
A few projects we’ve worked on recently include:
- New data integrations with other developer platforms
- New marketplace and billing integrations
- New internal platforms such as notifications, experimentation, feature flagging
- AI based data processing platforms
Your role will consist of:
- Coming up with innovative solutions to help users get the most out of Algolia
- Executing experiments and A/B tests to choose the best possible solution
- Collaborating with Product and Design teams to identify and ideate on opportunities
- Mentoring other software engineers and helping them grow
- Designing & developing a scalable growth platform
- Working with a wide range of teams to deliver a solid growth foundation
- Improving engineering quality, processes and tooling
- Helping define the team roadmap
- We follow a bottom-up approach: the teams come up with their own initiatives targeting our metrics and execute on them
You might be a fit if you have:
- Passion about delivering the best UX to diverse sets of users in various industries (engineers, marketers, merchandisers, etc.)
- Mindset to take data driven decisions and analysing impact of the changes you introduce
- Experience with event driven infrastructure in GCP or AWS
- Experience with a server-side typed or untyped language
- We use Ruby and have plans to integrate more Golang, so willingness to learn is important
Nice to have:
- Experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, React, HTML/CSS – while the role is backend leaning, we expect engineers to be able to ship across the stack
- Experience working in a scale-up or Growth team
- Experience with analytics platforms like Amplitude, Hex
