Software Engineer, Growth

Algolia • Remote (Remote - United States) • 1d ago

Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs

This Software Engineer, Growth role stands out because it sits at the intersection of product engineering and commercial outcomes that are central to modern SaaS. The remit focuses on onboarding and activation, helping customers understand features quickly and translating that into a smoother path from first use to long-term adoption. The work described also points to a product-led SaaS motion, where improvements to setup, developer tooling, and in-product guidance meaningfully influence usage at scale.

From a SaaS career perspective, the role offers repeated exposure to experimentation loops that many subscription businesses rely on: shipping iteratively, instrumenting behavior, and using A/B testing to decide what to build next. Building internal growth platforms around experimentation, notifications, and insights also develops transferable skills in creating shared infrastructure that multiple teams depend on, a common requirement as SaaS products mature.

This position is best suited to engineers who like working close to user journeys and are comfortable pairing qualitative product thinking with quantitative measurement. It fits someone who enjoys cross-functional collaboration with Product and Design, and who wants to broaden across the stack while staying grounded in reliable, well-tested 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

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, collaborate with other engineers, and contribute to engineering best practices.

We are looking for engineers who enjoy working close to users, shipping iteratively, measuring impact, and using data to decide what comes next.

A few projects we’ve worked on recently include:

Building AI-powered experiences that help developers launch with Algolia faster
Improving activation journeys through experimentation and personalization
Scaling developer tools like DocSearch and integrations used by thousands of applications
Building Growth platforms around experimentation, notifications, and product insights

Your role will consist of:

Building solutions to help users get the most out of Algolia
Running experiments and A/B tests to help choose the best possible solution
Collaborating with Product and Design teams to explore opportunities
Contributing to the evolution of our Growth platform, ensuring it scales with our customers and internal teams
Working with a range of teams to deliver a solid growth foundation
Writing high-quality, well-tested code and participating in code reviews
Contributing to improvements in engineering quality, processes, and tooling
Bringing ideas to the team roadmap and gradually owning projects from discovery through delivery
- 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.)
A mindset to make data-informed decisions and understand the impact of the changes you introduce
Some experience with, or a strong interest in, event-driven infrastructure in GCP or AWS
Experience building production applications with a backend language (we use Ruby today and are exploring Go)
Comfortable working across the stack or excited to grow into full-stack development with TypeScript, React, and modern frontend tools

Nice to have: