Engineering Manager, Data Connectors Platform

About

Algolia prides itself on being a pioneer and market leader offering an AI-powered, API-First Search & Discovery platform 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.

Their mission is to provide their customers with a combination of market-leading keyword and natural language processing via vector search – all uniquely packaged on a single API product and supported by hyper-scale indexing and blazing fast speed. They are used by one in six online users and more than 5 million developers a month.

In 2021, the company closed $150 million in series D funding and quadrupled its post-money valuation of $2.25 billion. Being well capitalised 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.

At Algolia, milliseconds matter !

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 on the Connectors Platform Team, you'll lead a team that develops products enabling our customers to seamlessly integrate their data into Algolia.

These products encompass a wide range of data integration and entry points, including:

  • Algolia API clients
  • Data Transformation services (internal and customer-facing)
  • Shopify, Commercetools, and BigCommerce integrations
  • AI Enrichment service
  • Connectors Platform (supports common data sources like JSON, BigQuery, and MySQL, etc)

Join our team and play a key role in shaping the future of data ingestion at Algolia! You will have the opportunity to design and develop the core platform that empowers our customers and internal engineering teams to seamlessly integrate their data with Algolia's powerful search and discovery capabilities.

Your role will consist of:

  • Leading a team, as well as hiring, onboarding, and fostering professional development
  • Working closely with other EMs and Product teams to build quality products
  • Proven ability to inspire and guide team members, with excellent communication skills
  • Leading both backend and frontend engineers
  • Ability to plan, build teams, and manage execution to deliver on commitments reliably

You might be a fit if you:

  • Have 3+ years of engineering management experience and 5+ years of engineering experience
  • Are comfortable with our tech stack. Go/GCP based backend, React frontend
  • Experienced with data heavy products and platforms
  • Are an excellent communicator able to translate product requirements into technical tasks and vice-versa
  • Are capable of jumping in the trenches with the engineers — managing incidents, handling on-call, etc.

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Additional Information

  • Contract Type: Full-Time
  • Location: London
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