Engineering Manager Understanding H/F Algolia

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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 in the AI Search Group, you will lead an engineering team working on a variety of topics.

Join the AI Search Group and help us enhance the core keyword search engine capabilities.

The AI Search Group is committed to enhancing the relevance of search results both before (Understanding) and after (Re-Ranking) a query is made.

We, (the team working on the Understanding & Re-Ranking scopes), are seeking individuals with a strong sense of curiosity and a problem-solving mindset-people who thrive on exploring new ideas and tackling challenges head-on. If you are passionate about uncovering insights and finding innovative solutions to enhance the value our customers receive from Algolia through the application of AI or other creative methods, and if you possess the grit to persevere through obstacles, we would love to hear from you !

Our team consists of engineers (partly remote in Europe timezone, partly working in our Paris office), and we bring together a variety of skills and backgrounds. Your experience, knowledge, and unique perspective will contribute to this diversity and empower the team to create impactful products.

Your role will consist of :
- Defining the overall technical direction and strategy for your team
- Mentoring and nurturing front and back software engineers and machine learning engineers, helping them grow in their career
- Being responsible for technical decisions taken by the team
- Working alongside the engineers to design and implement monitoring and alerting to ensure high availability, performance and reliability of your team's services
- Improving engineering quality, processes and tooling
- Collaborating with product managers and designers to help define the team roadmap (we follow a bottom-up approach)
- Interfacing with a wide range of teams to build and evangelize a solid growth foundation

You might BE a fit if you :
- Have 2+ years of engineering management experience and 5+ years of engineering experience
- Are an excellent communicator able to translate product requirements into technical tasks and vice-versa
- Have a mindset to take data driven decisions and analyzing impact of the changes you introduce
- Are fluent in Agile methodology and can lead a project from the idea to production

Nice to have :
- You have knowledge about challenges associated to running APIs & idempotent data processing pipelines at scale
- You have experience with GO or Python
- Are capable of jumping in the trenches with the engineerings - coding, managing incidents, handling on-call

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