The Team

The Events team owns Algolia’s customer-facing Events API, which lets users send key events into the Algolia system. These events power analytics, personalization, and other features that drive real business impact for our customers. We are expanding and improving this system, and you’ll be instrumental in onboarding to a mature codebase, learning it quickly, and helping shape its future.

The role will consist of

As a Full Stack Software Engineer, you’ll work across backend and frontend code to build reliable event capture, processing, and integration flows. While most of the role focuses on backend engineering in Go, you’ll also be responsible for improving and maintaining our Rails and React-based frontend and our connectors to third party tools such as Segment and Google Analytics.

You’ll:

• Take ownership of an existing product, rapidly learning its architecture and improving its reliability.
• Build, maintain, and evolve backend services in Go on GCP and Kubernetes, as well as our frontend Rails and React applications.
• Write clean, testable, and scalable code that balances speed and quality.
• Partner with product managers and other engineers to deliver features that enable customers to send events to Algolia easily.
• Investigate and debug production issues to ensure high uptime for a critical API.

This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys digging into existing systems, quickly building context, and then driving improvements that scale.

You might be a fit if you have

Must-haves

• Around 4+ years of software engineering experience, ideally across backend and frontend systems.
• Experience in Go, with comfort working in cloud-native environments (GCP, Kubernetes).
• Ability to quickly understand and onboard onto existing codebases.
• Some familiarity with frontend frameworks (React, Rails, or similar).
• Strong collaboration and problem-solving skills in cross-functional teams.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience integrating with Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Segment, or similar tracking/analytics tools.
• Prior exposure to event-driven systems or data pipelines.
• Knowledge of observability, monitoring, or performance optimization in production systems.

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

Team’s current stack

Golang backend built on GCP, Kubernetes, and Pub/Sub that integrates with our Rails and React application.

We’re committed to a flexible workplace

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, and we offer many 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 role it may be available with either a hybrid-remote or in-office schedule.

About us

Algolia powers more than 17,000 businesses with AI search that helps deliver fast, relevant experiences. We handle billions of search requests weekly and are part of a group of innovative companies building APIs to simplify development.

Who we’re looking for

We’re looking for talented, passionate people to build the world’s best search and discovery technology. We value autonomy and diversity, and we’re committed to an inclusive workplace. We care about each other and the world around us, and we welcome talent regardless of race, age, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, color, veteran status, disability, or socioeconomic background.

Ready to apply? If you share our values and enthusiasm for building the world’s best search and discovery technology, we’d love to review your application.

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