Senior Solutions Engineer

The Senior Solutions Engineer is a critical part of the go-to-market team, working closely with the sales and solutions organizations, playing a major role in the revenue attainment of the company and the adoption and best practices of our customers.

Work with Sales Teams and prospects on their evaluation and adoption of Algolia solutions
Understand and qualify customer goals with KPIs and effectively articulate Algolia’s ability to meet them
Assist in the Sales process including discovery, demo, Proofs of Concept (POC), RFP responses business justification
Develop custom search applications leveraging the tools, frameworks, and partners of the Algolia ecosystem.
Distill and advocate customer interests, needs and product feedback in order to relay to Product and Engineering teams
Continuously learn and update skills and keep aware of industry trends in the Search and Discovery space, and contribute to thought leadership to make Algolia more accessible to the world.
Work with the Solution Architects and Customer Success teams on seamless transition to the post sales process to ensure highly successful onboarding

Obsessed with Solving Customer Problems
4+ years experience in a customer-facing technical role (SE, SA, consultant, PM), ideally in the SaaS space
Previous software development experience in one or more of the following areas: Front End: JavaScript, TypeScript, React. Back-End: Java, Ruby, Go, Node, Python, Swift/Objective-C
Experience with data formats and data transformation
Great oral and written communication skills
Superior organizational skills working with multiple customers and have the ability to switch context quickly throughout the day with various competing demands and attention to detail
Experience at our current stage and beyond ($150-300M+ ARR range, high growth, lots of change and building internal infrastructure)