Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Software Engineer, Growth role sits at a classic SaaS inflection point: improving activation and early product value for customers who are trying to adopt a developer platform quickly. The remit touches onboarding, integrations, and the internal foundations that make product-led growth measurable, which is increasingly central in modern SaaS where usage signals and time to first value drive retention.
From a SaaS career perspective, the work builds durable leverage in experimentation, instrumentation, and platform thinking. Building systems for notifications, feature flagging, and experimentation creates experience that transfers across SaaS companies running iterative product delivery. The emphasis on A/B testing and data-driven decisions also aligns with how mature SaaS teams connect engineering output to business outcomes without turning the role into pure analytics.
This is best suited to an engineer who enjoys operating across product, design, and infrastructure boundaries, and who is comfortable shipping changes that are evaluated in production through metrics. It also fits someone ready to influence engineering practices and mentor peers while still staying hands-on, particularly in environments that mix backend depth with pragmatic fullstack delivery.
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
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
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