Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Search and discovery sits at the center of many SaaS products, shaping onboarding, engagement, and monetisation. A senior Solutions Engineer role at a platform like Algolia is therefore tightly connected to how modern SaaS companies deliver relevant, real time experiences across web and app surfaces. The German language focus also signals work aligned to a specific regional market, where technical credibility and clear communication often determine adoption outcomes.
From a SaaS career perspective, this position builds durable go to market craft at the intersection of product, engineering, and revenue. Owning technical pre sales relationships, running evaluations, and supporting proofs of concept develops repeatable skills in value discovery, solution design, and stakeholder alignment that transfer across developer focused SaaS categories. The internal feedback loop with Product and Engineering is also a practical way to learn how customer signals are translated into roadmap and enablement.
This role tends to suit professionals who enjoy switching between hands on prototyping and executive level storytelling, and who like being accountable for technical clarity in commercial cycles. It fits someone comfortable operating as a trusted advisor, collaborating closely with sales partners, and representing the customer perspective internally while maintaining deep technical fluency.
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! Algolia provides the industry’s most powerful search and discovery SaaS platform, driving richer, more powerful engagement and success capabilities to over 17,000 companies. We are seeking passionate and industrious Solutions Engineers ready to join a hyper-growth business and market to help evangelize and drive technical success with our solutions.
We are looking for experienced, curious, and driven Solutions Engineers to help customers realize the full value of our platform in a fast-growing market.
This role is a critical part of Algolia’s go-to-market organization, working closely with Sales and Solutions partners to drive revenue, customer adoption, and best practices. You will play a key role in helping prospects and customers evaluate Algolia, understand its technical capabilities, and successfully apply it to their use cases.
In this position, you will own the technical pre-sales relationship across opportunities and accounts. You will partner with Account Executives to demonstrate the product and underlying architecture, address technical and business objections, and deliver thoughtful, consultative solutions that result in a strong technical win and clear product fit.
You will act as both a deep technical expert and a trusted advisor. This means being equally comfortable presenting an engaging solution to a CTO, collaborating with product managers, or building prototypes and integrations directly with customer engineers using Algolia’s APIs.
You thrive in conversations with engineers, product leaders, and executives, and you know how to translate complex technical concepts into clear business value for diverse audiences.
Beyond customer-facing work, you will serve as an advocate for customer needs internally, partnering with Product and Engineering, contributing to technical content, enabling internal teams, and supporting cross-company initiatives that improve how customers succeed with Algolia.
Our priorities are guided by a simple question: what will help our customers be more successful with Algolia?
YOUR ROLE WILL CONSIST OF:
- Work with Sales Teams and prospects on their evaluation and adoption of Algolia solutions
- Understand and qualify customer goals with KPIs and effectively articulate Algolia’s ability to meet them
- Assist in the Sales process including discovery, demo, Proofs of Concept (POC), RFP responses & business justification
- Develop custom search applications leveraging the tools, frameworks, and partners of the Algolia ecosystem.
- Distill and advocate customer interests, needs and product feedback in order to relay to Product and Engineering teams
- Continuously learn and update skills and keep aware of industry trends in the Search and Discovery space, and contribute to thought leadership to make Algolia more accessible to the world.
- Work with the Solution Architects and Customer Success teams on seamless transition to the post sales process to ensure highly successful onboarding
YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF YOU HAVE:
- Speak German fluently
- Obsessed with Solving Customer Problems
- 4+ years experience in a customer-facing technical role (SE, SA, consultant, PM), ideally in the SaaS space
- Previous software development experience in one or more of the following areas:
- Front End: JavaScript, TypeScript, React,
- Back-End: Java, Ruby, Go, Node, Python, Swift/Objective-C
- Experience with data formats and data transformation
- Great oral and written communication skills
- Superior organizational skills working with multiple customers and have the ability to switch context quickly throughout the day with various competing demands and attention to detail
- Experience at our current stage and beyond ($150-300M+ ARR range, high growth, lots of change and building internal infrastructure)
NICE TO HAVE:
- A background in the search industry or e-commerce
- Specific knowledge in frameworks Magento, Shopify, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, commercetools and alike
- Familiarity with emerging concepts in agentic AI systems (e.g., autonomous reasoning, tool use, or multi-agent orchestration).
- Knowledge in Analytics, SEO
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