About this Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise Commerce – Data (SFCC) role at Algolia
At Algolia, we’re proud to be a pioneer and market leader in AI Search, empowering 18,000+ 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.
Algolia was built to help users deliver intuitive search and discovery experiences across their websites and applications. We provide APIs and integrations used by thousands of customers around the world. The Enterprise Commerce – Data team focuses on designing and supporting integrations that enable thousands of customers to seamlessly link their commerce platforms with Algolia.
What You Will Do
- Design, develop, and evolve Algolia's Salesforce B2C Commerce (SFCC) integration, with ownership of its architecture, scalability, and long-term technical direction, while contributing to other integrations as needed.
- Own technical work from design through delivery and ongoing improvement.
- Write technical RFCs and contribute to architecture and design decisions.
- Improve the quality, reliability, and maintainability of the integration.
- Investigate and resolve complex integration issues, partnering across Engineering, Product, Support, and customer-facing teams to provide technical solutions within the integration.
- Provide technical input to support roadmap planning, including level-of-effort estimates and identifying opportunities to improve and evolve the integration.
What You Might Bring
- Extensive Salesforce B2C Commerce (SFCC) experience, with deep knowledge of SFRA, cartridges, hooks, jobs, services, and B2C Commerce APIs, including designing and maintaining production SFCC integrations.
- Strong JavaScript skills and experience with requireJs, TypeScript and Node.js.
- Experience integrating commerce platforms with external APIs and services.
- Solid software engineering fundamentals, including automated testing, maintaining existing test suites, debugging, code quality, and maintainable design.
- Ability to own complex technical problems, identify root causes, and implement reliable engineering solutions.
- Ability to communicate technical findings, remediation plans, and trade-offs clearly through technical documentation and RFCs.
- A collaborative approach and willingness to learn, share knowledge, and work across technologies when needed.
- Alignment with Algolia's Core Values: Grit, Trust, Care, Candor, and Humility.
- Excellent spoken and written English.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Algolia, search, or indexing systems.
- Experience with React and headless commerce
- Experience with Adobe Commerce and PHP.
- Experience with Adobe Commerce Cloud Service (ACCS) and Adobe App Builder.
- Experience with other enterprise commerce platforms, including headless or composable commerce.
- Experience building or maintaining publicly distributed cartridges, plugins, SDKs, integrations, or open-source software.
Algolia does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, military status, veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
The annual base salary compensation range for this role reflects market pay data within this location. The exact compensation offered for this role may vary depending on specific location and job-related knowledge, technical skills, and experience; and is only one part of our Total Rewards philosophy to compensate and recognize employees for their work.
FLEXIBLE WORKPLACE STRATEGY:
Algolia’s flexible workplace model is designed to empower all Algolians to fulfill our mission to power search and discovery with ease. We place an emphasis on an individual’s impact, contribution, and output, over their physical location. Algolia is a high-trust environment and many of our team members have the autonomy to choose where they want to work and when.
We have a global presence with offices in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney and Bucharest, however we also offer many of our team members the option to work remotely either as fully remote or hybrid-remote employees. Positions listed as "Remote" are only available for remote work within the specified country. Positions listed within a specific city are only available in that location - depending on the role it may be available with either a hybrid-remote or in-office schedule.
WE’RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO CAN LIVE OUR VALUES:
- GRIT - Problem-solving and perseverance capability in an ever-changing and growing environment.
- TRUST - Willingness to trust our co-workers and to take ownership.
- CANDOR - Ability to receive and give constructive feedback.
- CARE - Genuine care about other team members, our clients and the decisions we make in the company.
- HUMILITY - Aptitude for learning from others, putting ego aside.
We’re looking for talented, passionate people to help build the world’s best search and discovery technology. We value autonomy, diversity, and collaboration. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is respected and supported—regardless of race, age, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, color, veteran status, disability, or socioeconomic background.
IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR CANDIDATES - Recruitment Fraud Notice
We’ve recently seen an increase in recruitment scams targeting job seekers. To help protect yourself, please keep the following in mind:
- Our open positions may appear on third-party job boards, but the best way to apply safely is directly through our careers page.
- All genuine communication from Algolia will come from an @algolia.com email address. If you receive an email from someone claiming to work at Algolia who does not have an @algolia.com email address, please do not respond or share any personal information.
- We’ll never ask for payments, purchases, or financial details during the hiring process.
READY TO APPLY?
If you share our values and our enthusiasm for building the world’s best search & discovery technology, we’d love to review your application!
