Principal Software Engineer

About the role

As a principal engineer, you will shape the frontend architecture and developer experience for Algolia's products. You will lead cross-team initiatives to evolve the Algolia Dashboard and define the technical vision for the frontend platform. This role involves architecting scalable systems, mentoring team members, and ensuring high-quality delivery across both internal and customer-facing applications.

Responsibilities

• Defining the multi-year technical vision for Algolia's front-end platform, and turning it into roadmaps and projects that several teams can execute
• Playing an active role in the evolution of the Algolia Dashboard: shaping the experience architecture, the component strategy and the technical foundations for conversational and agentic UX
• Driving convergence on a shared component library, reducing duplicated components and inconsistent patterns across product surfaces
• Designing and delivering solutions that will scale with significant volumes, be highly available, performant and resilient
• Owning solutions, taking them all the way through delivery to adoption by engineering teams and customers
• Shaping API design, versioning and backward-compatibility strategy for public libraries used by a large developer community
• Embodying technical expertise, that the team can refer to for advice or validation of a solution
• Setting engineering standards and best practices to be followed by engineers

Required skills

• TypeScript
• React
• Frontend Architecture
• API Design
• Microservices
• System Design
• Accessibility

Nice to have

• Search UX
• Generative AI
• Agentic Interfaces

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience with a track record of setting technical direction across multiple teams

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, it is a recognized leader for Search and Product Discovery.