Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This role sits at a common SaaS growth lever: product-led distribution through platform ecosystems. By owning integrations with Shopify and BigCommerce, the work connects a core SaaS capability, search and discovery, to where merchants already operate, making the integration itself a strategic surface area rather than a side project. The remit spans both internal and external experiences, which is increasingly typical for SaaS companies that treat partner channels as first-class products.
From a career standpoint, the position offers durable SaaS experience in building and operating integration-heavy systems that must be reliable, observable, and easy for other teams to adopt. The emphasis on scalable architecture, API clients, and data ingestion pipelines maps directly to how modern SaaS products extend into marketplaces and third-party platforms. Exposure to a mixed stack across Go, Node, React, and cloud infrastructure also builds cross-functional engineering range that transfers well across SaaS environments.
The listing signals a strong fit for an engineer who enjoys end-to-end ownership, from design decisions to operational follow-through, and who is comfortable collaborating across teams to drive adoption. It will suit someone motivated by product surfaces that touch revenue indirectly through distribution and usability, 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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