Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Software Engineer role sits at a common SaaS inflection point: turning third party platform integrations into durable product channels. With a focus on Shopify and BigCommerce, the work is anchored in the realities of SaaS distribution through marketplaces, where reliability, developer experience, and integration depth can directly influence adoption. The remit spans both external customer facing surfaces and internal systems that support integration products, making it a strong example of how modern SaaS companies extend their core offering beyond the primary app.
For a SaaS career, the role offers sustained exposure to integration architecture and operational ownership, including data ingestion patterns, API client design, and cloud native infrastructure. Experience across languages and frameworks, plus a stack that includes GCP, Kubernetes, and Terraform, builds transferable capability for teams that ship multi service products and support them in production. The emphasis on delivery through adoption by other engineering teams also reflects a SaaS environment where platform work succeeds only when it is broadly usable.
This position tends to suit engineers who enjoy cross team collaboration and end to end accountability, from design through rollout. It also aligns with someone comfortable balancing UX considerations with backend scalability, and who values mentoring as part of senior level impact.
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
The Team
The Application Experiences team ensures a frictionless experience around strategically important integrations Algolia has with Shopify and BigCommerce. This team will level up our existing integrations and evolve them into channels that Algolia can use to deliver new products to customers.
Our integrations with Shopify and BigCommerce offer the best Search and Discovery experiences natively for any merchants on these platforms and are mission-critical channels for Algolia to drive revenue and continuously shape the future of eCommerce.
The Opportunity
The team is looking for an experienced individual who is well versed in defining, building and operating scalable architectures, with proven strengths in cross-team collaboration, taking solutions all the way through delivery to adoption by other engineering teams.
As a member of the Application Experiences team, you will have a direct impact on Algolia’s revenue stream. You will play a pivotal role in architecting and implementing systems that play a central role across all of Algolia’s integration products. You will also play a role in training/mentoring junior members of the team.
Your role will consist of:
- Architecture, design and develop external and internal experiences for our products, especially our Shopify Application
- Take ownership, research and deliver world class experiences
- Build integrations with external APIs, connectors and API clients: eq., data ingestion pipeline for ecommerce integrations, Shopify Application, and BigCommerce Application
- Help define engineering best practices and processes
- Work closely with the rest of the R&D team to deliver the tools they need to develop next-generation products
You might be a fit if you have:
- Knowledge in some of the following languages: Ruby, NodeJs, Python, Golang
- Experience with at least one of the following frameworks React, Vue.Js, RoR
- A passion for shipping quality code
- You have an eye for great user experiences (UX)
- Experience with eCommerce integrations or building public Shopify apps for eCommerce store owners
- Experience at our current stage and beyond ($50-200M ARR range, high growth, lots of change and building internal infrastructure).
We’re looking for someone who can live our values:
- GRIT - Problem-solving and perseverance capability in an ever-changing and growing environment
- TRUST - Willingness to trust our co-workers and to take ownership
- CANDOR - Ability to receive and give constructive feedback.
- CARE - Genuine care about other team members, our clients and the decisions we make in the company.
- HUMILITY- Aptitude for learning from others, putting ego aside.
Team’s current stack:
- Golang, GCP/GKE, pubsub, bigquery, bigtable, CircleCI, terraform
- API Clients: JS, Go, Ruby, RoR
- NodeJS, TS, React, Shopify Polaris
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