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About the Role
As an Engineering Director at Algolia, you will lead multiple teams or a critical product area, working closely with Engineering Managers, Product, and Design to deliver scalable, reliable, and high-impact solutions. You will play a key role in translating company strategy into execution, while building strong, autonomous teams and fostering engineering excellence.
Responsibilities
- Lead a group of engineering teams (via Engineering Managers and Senior ICs), ensuring alignment with product and company priorities.
- Demonstrate strong AI leadership within the engineering organization by fostering a culture of continuous improvement and proactively evaluating and applying emerging AI technologies to enhance productivity, efficiency, and organizational performance across the broader technology function.
- Own delivery, execution, and operational excellence for a defined product or platform area.
- Partner closely with Product, Design, and cross-functional stakeholders to shape roadmaps and ensure successful delivery of customer value.
- Drive engineering best practices across system design, scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Be a member of Algolia’s senior technology leadership team, with significant contributions to engineering excellence and the high performance of the global technology organization, extending beyond the immediate area of responsibility.
- Support and coach Engineering Managers, helping them grow as leaders and build high-performing teams.
- Contribute to organizational planning, including headcount, team structure, and quarterly/annual planning cycles.
- Ensure a strong culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement within your organization.
- Act as a bridge between strategy and execution, translating high-level goals into clear team-level priorities.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to the CTO and SVP Engineering, providing strategic guidance on engineering leadership, organizational effectiveness, and cross-functional management initiatives across the technology organization.
Requirements
- 8–12+ years of engineering experience, including 3–5+ years managing multiple teams or managing through managers.
- Proven experience delivering complex, cross-functional projects in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
- Strong technical background with experience in distributed systems, APIs, and scalable infrastructure.
- Demonstrated ability to lead through others, empowering managers and senior engineers.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to align diverse stakeholders and drive clarity.
- Experience operating in distributed or global engineering environments.
Skills
- AI leadership
- System design
- Scalability
- Reliability
- Performance
- Distributed systems
- APIs
- Scalable infrastructure
Location
- Paris
- NYC
- London
- Sydney
- Bucharest
- Remote
Work Type
- Remote
- Hybrid-remote
- In-office
Experience Level
- 8-12+ years of engineering experience
- 3-5+ years managing multiple teams or managing through managers
Salary/Compensations
- £160,000—£200,000 GBP
About the Company
- Algolia is the retrieval intelligence layer that turns intent into trusted, decision-grade outcomes.
- Powering more than 1.7 trillion queries a year for over 18,000 customers with millisecond latency and 99.999% reliability, we are the recognized leader for Search and Product Discovery by top industry analyst firms.
- The Algolia platform turns a company's products, content, and business rules into data that humans, applications and AI agents can act upon.
- The result is trusted customer experiences with stronger conversions for measurable business impact.
- Algolia’s Engineering team builds the core infrastructure and product features that power real-time search and discovery for thousands of customers around the world.
- This includes backend services, frontend components, site reliability, and ML-powered capabilities.
- The team is distributed, collaborative, and committed to technical excellence and continuous learning.
- We value autonomy, diversity, and collaboration.
- We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is respected and supported—regardless of race, age, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, color, veteran status, disability, or socioeconomic background.
Equal Opportunity
- Algolia does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, national origin, military status, veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
- We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is respected and supported—regardless of race, age, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, color, veteran status, disability, or socioeconomic background.