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 every day into production.
We’re looking for a Senior JavaScript Software Engineer (Front end) to join the Developer Experience (DX) team at Algolia, onsite from the Paris office or in partial/full remote from France or the UK.
We are responsible for providing the best developer experience to our users through the development of open source UI libraries such as InstantSearch.js. InstantSearch libraries are sitting on top of the raw Algolia API, providing UI semantics that are easy to use and understand, like a SearchBox UI component to add to your webpage.
We’re not using only one framework, but all of them (you don’t need to know all of them though, we teach each others). We build open source tools for Angular, Vue.js, React but also plain JavaScript (“Vanilla JS” 🍦). We do so because our users are constantly giving us feedback about their needs via GitHub, our discourse forum or our support system. We are at the frontline of the developer experience at Algolia, a great position to have a big impact for both developers and end-users.
This is an opportunity for someone to help design and make an immense impact at a fast growing company. You should value and practice transparency, have the humility to accept your weaknesses and continuously strive to improve both personally and professionally.
Do you like, or would you like to, craft code, tools and libraries for developers? Do you love to design a clean API solving real-world use cases? Then apply and let’s chat about it.
Coming right from an engineer in the team : “As a developer, I use a ton of different libraries to achieve my goals of building applications. Now I can go to the next level and learn how to build tools for developers to build their applications. It’s a whole different challenge, I do it in the open source world and engage with my users.”.
Your role will consist of:
In a typical morning I would open my GitHub notifications and seek for any important subject: a customer needing help with a bug, a colleague asking for a pull request review. Then I would go back at coding and tackling one of the team objectives we set early in the quarter. Right after lunch, once per week we have a team meeting to discuss challenges at stake and progress.
You might be a fit if you have:
Nice to have:
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