Join Algolia as a Senior Software Engineer to enhance AI search capabilities with a focus on ranking and understanding features.
Posted by employer 1 month ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 month ago
Last verified on the company career page 5 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
AI in the day-to-day
We're looking for problem solvers passionate about optimizing search relevance and applying AI thoughtfully.
Not disclosed in this posting: years of experience, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Senior Software Engineer will focus on designing and developing features that enhance search ranking and understanding, collaborating with a diverse team that includes front-end developers and machine learning specialists. Key skills include experience with production pipelines, large datasets, and API services, along with a commitment to high code quality and automated testing. This position is ideal for someone with a strong technical background and a passion for optimizing search relevance through data-driven decision-making. Algolia fosters a collaborative environment where diverse perspectives contribute to impactful product development.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze August 13, 2026. Last confirmed on Algolia's careers page October 10, 2026.
- Starts above 9% of 517 comparable senior backend roles we track (median $160,000 across 131 companies).
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Software Engineer, Understanding role remote?
- It's hybrid — Algolia expects some on-site time in Paris, France.
- What's the salary range?
- Algolia lists €67,500–€94,000 for this role.
- Where is the role based?
- Algolia is hiring for this position in Paris, France.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Go, Kubernetes, Python, SQL.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Algolia targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Software Engineer, Understanding role at Algolia.
From the original posting
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.
Join the AI Search Group: Enhancing Core Search Capabilities
The Relevance Group is dedicated to advancing the core search experience by improving both pre-query relevance (Understanding) and post-query relevance (Re-Ranking). We're responsible for key customer-facing features like Query Suggestions, Dynamic Synonym Suggestions, AI Re-Ranking, and Query Categorization. We’re looking for problem solvers with an entrepreneurial mindset—people who focus on outcomes and use data to drive decisions. If you're passionate about optimizing search relevance and applying AI thoughtfully to achieve measurable results for customers, we'd love to hear from you!
The team is composed of engineers, with different skill sets and backgrounds. Your experience, your knowledge and your perspective will add to this diversity and help the team deliver products that make a difference.
YOU WILL:
- Be a key contributor to the design and development of ranking & understanding features
- Collaborate with a team that includes a variety of roles, ranging from front-end developers to machine learning specialists.
- Be responsible for the quality and soundness of our pipelines
- Experience designing and operating pipelines in production
- Experience working with large datasets and high traffic
- An interest in solving Ranking challenges
- Experience in building and maintaining API services
- Rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
- Experience using one of the major cloud providers (GCP, AWS or Azure)
- Excellent spoken and written English skills
NICE TO HAVE:
- Experience operating AI models in production environments
- Experience in Go or Python
- Experience in Kubernetes
- Sensitivity to data driven decision making, and exploring datasets with SQL
- Sensitivity to end user experience
Algolia does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, military status, veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
The annual base salary compensation range for this role reflects market pay data within this location. The exact compensation offered for this role may vary depending on specific location and job-related knowledge, technical skills, and experience; and is only one part of our Total Rewards philosophy to compensate and recognize employees for their work.
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