Principal Software Engineer

About the role

<div class="content-intro"><div><span id="m_8220454926977230902gmail-docs-internal-guid-9a9f34f4-7fff-014a-c97c-98ca90610a47">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.</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div></div><div> <p>If you're a problem solver, able to think outside the box and eager to nurture others and learn from them, then this is your challenge!</p> <br>As a <strong>principal engineer working across the entire frontend stack</strong>, from design-system primitives to product-level architecture, you will shape how developers build with Algolia and how customers experience our products.<br> <p>In the Frontend Experiences team, we're on a mission to make it effortless for developers to <strong>build great search and discovery experiences on the front end</strong>, with libraries, components and tooling that are fast, accessible, and a pleasure to use. Our work reaches customers and their end users directly, on the web and on mobile, so the quality bar is high and the feedback loop is short.</p> <br> <p>Right now, that includes a cross-team, multi-quarter effort to <strong>evolve the Algolia Dashboard</strong> from a collection of product surfaces into one coherent environment: a new navigation and information architecture, a shared component foundation, and an interaction model that supports traditional configuration, conversational assistance and agentic workflows side by side.</p> <br> <p>The team is looking for an experienced individual who is well versed in defining, building and operating scalable architectures, with proven strengths in cross-team collaboration, taking solutions all the way through delivery to adoption by other engineering teams and by customers. You will play a pivotal role in architecting and implementing systems that play a central role across all of Algolia's front-end products, including libraries that run in production on thousands of customer sites. You will also play a role in training/mentoring and leading team members.</p> <br> <p><strong>YOUR ROLE WILL CONSIST OF:</strong></p> <br> <ul> <li><strong>Defining the multi-year technical vision</strong> for Algolia's front-end platform, and turning it into roadmaps and projects that several teams can execute;</li> <li><strong>Playing an active role in the evolution of the Algolia Dashboard</strong>: shaping the experience architecture, the component strategy and the technical foundations for conversational and agentic UX, and partnering with engineering, product and design leadership to sequence delivery;</li> <li><strong>Driving convergence on a shared component library</strong>, reducing duplicated components and inconsistent patterns across product surfaces;</li> <li><strong>Designing and delivering solutions</strong> that will scale with significant volumes, be highly available, performant and resilient, including on pages and apps we do not control;</li> <li><strong>Owning solutions</strong>, taking them all the way through delivery to adoption by engineering teams and customers;</li> <li><strong>Shaping API design, versioning and backward-compatibility strategy</strong> for public libraries used by a large developer community;</li> <li><strong>Embodying technical expertise</strong>, that the team can refer to for advice or validation of a solution;</li> <li><strong>Setting engineering standards and best practices</strong> to be followed by engineers</li> </ul> <br> <p><strong>YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF YOU HAVE:</strong></p> <br> <ul> <li>Excel

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