Job description
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 Growth org, you will lead an engineering team working on a variety of topics. The Growth org aims to help our customers realize the value of our products, helping them build a great search experience. Some of our recent projects include:
- developing an OAuth2.0 based API allowing our partners to deeply integrate Algolia into their offerings
- launching a new service powering onboarding for various features
- creating an analytics and experimentation platform
- and much more.
Come, work with us and get to shape the user experience of our customers as they start using Algolia, mentor software engineers, and introduce best practices.
Your role will consist of:
- Defining the overall technical direction and strategy for your team
- Mentoring and nurturing software 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 experienced with frontend technologies like JavaScript, TypeScript, React
- Are experienced with a server-side scripting language (we use Ruby, however languages can be learned - your engineering proficiency is more important than any particular language)
- Are capable of jumping in the trenches with the engineerings coding, managing incidents, handling on-call
- Are able to identify and introduce relevant SLOs and SLAs within the team
- Are fluent in Agile methodology and can lead a project from the idea to production
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