Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This role sits at a core SaaS junction where product experience meets platform capability. Building UI for a connectors platform means working on the surfaces customers use to bring their own data into a hosted service, a common but technically nuanced problem in API-first SaaS. The remit also touches AI-assisted enrichment, signalling a product area where SaaS vendors are increasingly differentiating through data quality and automation rather than feature volume alone.
For a SaaS engineering career, the long-term value comes from owning workflows that translate complex backend systems into understandable, dependable interfaces. Experience designing ingestion and transformation journeys tends to transfer across SaaS categories because it involves multi-tenant considerations, reliability expectations, and integration patterns with third-party systems. The emphasis on tested, accessible, performant UI also maps well to mature SaaS environments where customer trust is earned through consistent product quality.
The position is best suited to senior engineers who prefer end-to-end responsibility and are comfortable shaping product direction through technical proposals. It will likely appeal to builders who enjoy turning ambiguous integration needs into clear UX, and who like collaborating across platform and product concerns while staying close to production outcomes.
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
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.
As a Senior UI Software Engineer on the Connectors Platform Team, you’ll play a key role in building products that help our customers ingest, transform, and enrich their data with AI, making it seamless to integrate into Algolia.
The Team
The Connectors Platform team builds services that make it easy for our global customer base to bring their data into Algolia efficiently. Our platform powers:
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E-commerce integrations with Shopify, Commercetools, and BigCommerce
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Data source connectivity for JSON, BigQuery, Supabase, MySQL, and many more
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Data transformations to dynamically update and prepare data as it flows into Algolia
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AI-powered enrichment that automatically enhances data to drive improved search relevance and personalization
The role will consist of:
As a Senior UI Software Engineer on the Connectors Platform team, you will play a central role in designing and building user-facing products that make data ingestion, transformation, and enrichment seamless. You will:
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Design and build intuitive, AI-assisted customer UIs for data ingestion and enrichment
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Own the end-to-end user experience, from technical design through production delivery
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Champion engineering excellence with clean, tested, performant, and accessible code
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Shape the product roadmap by proposing ideas that improve how businesses connect data with Algolia
You might be a fit if you have:
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Around 5+ years of software engineering experience
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Strong expertise in TypeScript and React
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A track record of delivering high-quality, maintainable, and tested code
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Curiosity and initiative to experiment with UI improvements
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Clear communication skills in English, both written and spoken
Team’s current stack
React, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Kubernetes, GCP
