At Algolia, we’re proud to be a pioneer and market leader in AI Search, empowering 17,000+ businesses to deliver blazing-fast, predictive search and browse experiences at internet scale. Every week, we power over 30 billion search requests — four times more than Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex, and DuckDuckGo combined.
In 2021, we raised $150 million in Series D funding, quadrupling our valuation to $2.25 billion. This strong foundation enables us to keep investing in our market-leading platform and serving incredible customers like Under Armour, PetSmart, Stripe, Gymshark, and Walgreens.
At Algolia, we are passionate about helping developers and product teams connect their users with what matters most in milliseconds!
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, handling billions of search queries monthly.
The Developer Support Engineer is a critical role at Algolia. We’re on the front-lines and are often the first team customers contact when they need help with our products or services. We're looking for a Developer Support Engineer to assist our technical users with implementing Algolia in a variety of web and mobile development technical stacks.
This could mean helping a developer trying to build the next big thing in their garage, or Fortune 500 companies focused on providing a world-class experience to their millions of users.
As a Developer Support Engineer, you will partner with the customer success, product, and engineering teams to find the best solutions for our customers.. We have a hands-on culture, and expect you to roll up your sleeves and get to work solving difficult problems that stand in the way of our customers’ success.
YOUR ROLE WILL CONSIST OF:
- Handling technical requests via web and email support channels.
- Conducting professional and empathetic conversations with customers to gather information, troubleshoot, and resolve their technical obstacles.
- Submitting bug reports to the Engineering team for problems needing attention.
- Partnering with Product Teams and Engineering to develop subject matter expertise and serve as a product expert to the rest of the support team.
- Contributing to internal and external knowledge bases.
- Participating in internal projects to improve processes and tools.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Strong desire to help people solve problems with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to a broad audience
- Experience with web development, REST APIs, and database management.
- 2+ years of experience in technical customer support, supporting SaaS enterprise software
- Working knowledge of development languages such as JavaScript, Java, PHP, Swift, Ruby, Python.
- Ability to handle and prioritize a portfolio of ti