Director, Engineering, AI Search

About the Team

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.

Your Role Will Consist Of

• Leading a group of engineering teams (via Engineering Managers and Senior ICs), ensuring alignment with product and company priorities
• Demonstrating strong AI leadership within the engineering organization by fostering a culture of continuous improvement and proactively evaluating and applying emerging AI technologies
• Owning delivery, execution, and operational excellence for a defined product or platform area
• Partnering closely with Product, Design, and cross-functional stakeholders to shape roadmaps
• Driving engineering best practices across system design, scalability, reliability, and performance
• Being a member of Algolia’s senior technology leadership team
• Supporting and coaching Engineering Managers
• Contributing to organizational planning, including headcount, team structure, and quarterly/annual planning cycles

You Might Be a Fit If You Have

• 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

Nice to Have

• Experience in developer tools, infrastructure, or data platforms
• Familiarity with product-led growth (PLG) environments
• Exposure to AI/ML-powered products or platforms

Compensation

Base Salary Pay Range £160,000—£200,000 GBP

Workplace

Algolia’s flexible workplace model emphasises impact, contribution, and output over physical location. We have a global presence with offices in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney and Bucharest, and offer options to work remotely either as fully remote or hybrid-remote employees.