Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Software Engineer role sits at the intersection of core SaaS infrastructure and customer facing product capability. Digital merchandising for search and discovery is a common expansion area for platforms serving eCommerce, and the remit here spans multiple parts of a mature product stack, including APIs, analytics, and AI driven configuration. The emphasis on building new products on top of existing APIs signals work that is additive to a well established platform rather than greenfield experimentation.
For a SaaS engineer, the career value is in learning how product features become durable services. Ownership of quality, reliability, and availability points to experience that transfers across subscription software businesses where uptime and predictable behavior directly influence adoption. Working across full stack concerns and coordinating with other R&D groups also builds the collaboration habits needed in multi product SaaS organizations.
This position tends to suit engineers who like combining product minded development with operational responsibility. It fits someone comfortable contributing across service design, implementation, and run time support, and who prefers environments where scale, automated testing discipline, and API design are central to day to day work. Remote alignment to US Eastern or Central time zones suggests a distributed cadence with shared working hours.
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Job Description
The Team
The Digital Merchandising Product team is enabling companies to optimize their business metrics by personalizing and curating search and discovery experiences mapped to the shopper journey. We work across Algolia stack in building solutions leveraging Search Engine, Rules, AI Studio, Analytics etc. We have ambitious goals ahead of us, including building several new products on top of Algolia existing APIs and capabilities.
The Opportunity
As a member of the Digital Merchandising team:
- You will have a direct impact on Algolia’s user adoption and revenue stream
- You will play a pivotal role in architecting and implementing new products, that will play a central role for the future of Algolia
- You will be in the driver seat to innovate in the multi-billion dollar market eCommerce industry
- Work closely with the rest of R&D teams to deliver the next generation products
Your role will consist of:
- Be a key full-stack contributor to the design, development, and operation of the Merchandising services at scale
- Be responsible for the quality, reliability and availability of the system
- Work with other teams to build features and resolve high impact issues
You might be a fit if you have:
- Experience building and working with APIs at scale preferably in Golang and backend experience in Ruby on Rails
- Rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
- Located in US Eastern or Central time zones
- Preference for candidates with experience at our current stage and beyond (over 10,000 customers, $200-500M ARR range, high growth, lots of change and building internal infrastructure).
Nice to have:
- Experience in C++
- Experience working with large datasets and high traffic
- Experience in Site Reliability Engineering
- Experience in Kubernetes based deployments
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