Senior Software Engineer - UI, Connectors Platform

At Algolia, we’re proud to be a pioneer and market leader in AI Search, empowering 17,000+ businesses to deliver blazing-fast, predictive search and browse experiences at internet scale. Every week, we power over 30 billion search requests — four times more than Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex, and DuckDuckGo combined.

In 2021, we raised $150 million in Series D funding, quadrupling our valuation to $2.25 billion. This strong foundation enables us to keep investing in our market-leading platform and serving incredible customers like Under Armour, PetSmart, Stripe, Gymshark, and Walgreens.

Algolia was built to help 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. Billions of search queries are answered every month thanks to the code we push into production every day.

As a Senior UI Software Engineer on the Connectors Platform Team, you’ll play a key role in building products that help our customers ingest, transform, and enrich their data with AI, making it seamless to integrate into Algolia.

The Team

The Connectors Platform Team Builds Services That Make It Easy For Our Global Customer Base To Bring Their Data Into Algolia Efficiently. Our Platform Powers

• E-commerce integrations with Shopify, Commercetools, and BigCommerce
• Data source connectivity for JSON, BigQuery, Supabase, MySQL, and many more
• Data transformations to dynamically update and prepare data as it flows into Algolia
• AI-powered enrichment that automatically enhances data to drive improved search relevance and personalization

The Role Will Consist Of

As a Senior UI Software Engineer on the Connectors Platform team, you will play a central role in designing and building user-facing products that make data ingestion, transformation, and enrichment seamless. You will:

• Design and build intuitive, AI-assisted customer UIs for data ingestion and enrichment
• Own the end-to-end user experience, from technical design through production delivery
• Champion engineering excellence with clean, tested, performant, and accessible code
• Shape the product roadmap by proposing ideas that improve how businesses connect data with Algolia

You Might Be a Fit If You Have

• Around 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Strong expertise in TypeScript and React
• A track record of delivering high-quality, maintainable, and tested code
• Curiosity and initiative to experiment with UI improvements
• Clear communication skills in English, both written and spoken

Team’s current stack

React, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, Kubernetes, GCP

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.

We have a global presence with offices in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney and Bucharest, however we also offer many of our team members the option to work remotely either as fully remote or hybrid-remote employees. 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 role it may be available with either a hybrid-remote or in-office schedule.WE’RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO CAN LIVE OUR VALUES:

• GRIT - Problem-solving and perseverance capability in an ever-changing and growing environment.
• TRUST - Willingness to trust our co-workers and to take ownership.
• CANDOR - Ability to receive and give constructive feedback.
• CARE - Genuine care about other team members, our clients and the decisions we make in the company.
• HUMILITY - Aptitude for learning from others, putting ego aside.

We’re looking for talented, passionate people to help build the world’s best search and discovery technology. We value autonomy, diversity, and collaboration. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is respected and supported—regardless of race, age, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, color, veteran status, disability, or socioeconomic background.

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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!