Engineering Manager, Understanding
Remote
London, United Kingdom
Full Time
06-03-2025
Job Specifications
Algolia is a fast-growing company that helps users deliver an intuitive search-as-you-type experience on their websites and mobile apps. We provide a search API used by thousands of customers in more than 100 countries. Today, Algolia powers 1.5 Trillion searches a year – that’s 4 times more than Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Baidu and Yandex combined!
As an Engineering Manager in the AI Search Group, you will lead an engineering team working on a variety of topics.
Join the AI Search Group and help us enhance the core keyword search engine capabilities.
The AI Search Group is committed to enhancing the relevance of search results both before (Understanding) and after (Re-Ranking) a query is made.
We, (the team working on the Understanding & Re-Ranking scopes), are seeking individuals with a strong sense of curiosity and a problem-solving mindset—people who thrive on exploring new ideas and tackling challenges head-on. If you are passionate about uncovering insights and finding innovative solutions to enhance the value our customers receive from Algolia through the application of AI or other creative methods, and if you possess the grit to persevere through obstacles, we would love to hear from you!
Our team consists of engineers (partly remote in Europe timezone, partly working in our Paris office), and we bring together a variety of skills and backgrounds. Your experience, knowledge, and unique perspective will contribute to this diversity and empower the team to create impactful products.
Your Role Will Consist Of
Defining the overall technical direction and strategy for your team
Mentoring and nurturing front and back software engineers and machine learning engineers, helping them grow in their career
Being responsible for technical decisions taken by the team
Working alongside the engineers to design and implement monitoring and alerting to ensure high availability, performance and reliability of your team’s services
Improving engineering quality, processes and tooling
Collaborating with product managers and designers to help define the team roadmap (we follow a bottom-up approach)
Interfacing with a wide range of teams to build and evangelize a solid growth foundation
You Might Be a Fit If You
Have 2+ years of engineering management experience and 5+ years of engineering experience
Are an excellent communicator able to translate product requirements into technical tasks and vice-versa
Have a mindset to take data driven decisions and analyzing impact of the changes you introduce
Are fluent in Agile methodology and can lead a project from the idea to production
Nice To Have
You have knowledge about challenges associated to running APIs & idempotent data processing pipelines at scale
You have experience with Go or Python
Are capable of jumping in the trenches with the engineerings — coding, managing incidents, handling on-call
Flexible Workplace Strategy
Algolia’s flexible workplace model is designed to empower all Algolians to fulfill our mission to power search and discovery with ease. We place an emphasis on an individual’s impact, contribution, and output, over their physical location. Algolia is a high-trust environment and many of our team members have the autonomy to choose where they want to work and when.
While we have a global presence with physical offices in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney and Bucharest, we also offer many of our team members the option to work remotely either as fully remote or hybrid-remote employees. Please note that positions listed as "Remote" are only available for remote work within the specified country. Positions listed within a specific city are only available in that location - depending on the nature of the role it may be available with either a hybrid-remote or in-office schedule.
About Us
Algolia prides itself on being a pioneer and market leader offering an AI Search solution that empowers 17,000+ businesses to compose customer experiences at internet scale that predict what their users want with blazing fast search and web browse experience. Algolia powers more than 30 billion search requests a week – four times more than Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex and DuckDuckGo combined.
Algolia is part of a cadre of innovative new companies that are driving the next generation of software development, creating APIs that make developers’ lives easier; solutions that are better than building from scratch and better than having to tweak monolithic SaaS solutions.
In 2021, the company closed $150 million in series D funding and quadrupled its post-money valuation of $2.25 billion. Being well capitalized enables Algolia to continue to invest in its market leading platform, to better serve its thousands of customers–including Under Armor, Petsmart, Stripe, Gymshark, and Walgreens, to name just a few.
Who We're Looking For
We’re looking for talented, passionate people to build the world’s best search & discovery technology. As an ownership-driven company, we seek team members who thrive within an environment based on autonomy and diversity. We're committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace. We care about each other and the world around us, and embrace talented people regardless of their race, age, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, color, veteran status, disability and socioeconomic background.
READY TO APPLY?
If you share our values and our enthusiasm for building the world’s best search & discovery technology, we’d love to review your application!
About the Company
Algolia, the world’s only end-to-end AI Search solution, helps businesses and developers understand their online users and show them exactly what they need. Algolia is the one-stop shop for AI search and works by feeding an array of signals into multiple AI models that understand user intent and surface personalized results that meet business needs. The company uses this deep understanding to create exceptional customer experiences, and to drive revenue growth for customers. Algolia achieves its vision by enabling more than... Know more
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