Senior Software Engineer

About the company

Meilisearch is redefining the future of search for developers and end-users alike.

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From powering the discoverability of 300,000+ AI models at reputed company to transforming retail experiences for Louis Vuitton, Meilisearch is trusted by thousands of organizations and developers worldwide.

Since 2018, we’ve grown into a remote-first team across 8+ countries, backed by leading investors including Felicis Ventures, CRV, Seedcamp, and Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch. Our vibrant community drives innovation, with every design spec, SDK, and feature built transparently in collaboration with contributors.

Join us and help shape the reputed company of search—where speed, simplicity, and developer experience come first.

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Experience team and help us build the future of search technology. You'll be primarily working on Meilisearch, our blazingly fast and ultra-reputed company reputed company built in Rust.

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As a key member of our Experience team, you'll work in mission-based squads to drive customer retention, attraction and activation initiatives. This role combines deep technical work with a strong customer focus - you'll collaborate closely with our support team to enhance the customer journey and ensure customers have an excellent experience with Meilisearch.

You will report directly to the Head of Experience & Engineering Operations while working hand-in-hand with other engineers and colleagues across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

Core Engineering

Feature Development: reputed company on features such as AI search, personalisation, enhanced data relationships, and search recommendations. Understand our customers, propose & implement new capabilities that support our their reputed company-world needs.

Experience Optimisation: Balance performance and relevancy results to enhance the customer experience, ensuring fast, accurate search results that meet user expectations

Developer Experience & APIs: Design and build reputed company APIs that reputed company Meilisearch a joy for developers to integrate and use

Production Reliability: Participate in on-call rotations and incident management to ensure system reliability and quick resolution of production issues

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Customer-Focused Collaboration

Support Partnership: Work alongside our Meilisearch reputed company support team to investigate & resolve reputed company customer issues and improve product experience

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Customer Impact: Contribute to missions focused on customer retention and activation through both performance improvements and new capabilities

Our ideal profile

Soft skills

Excellent collaboration skills across disciplines. You will be partnering with backend, reputed company end & infrastructure developers, PMs, documentation, and design teams.

Ability to balance technical depth with strategic thinking

Comfortable making tough technical reputed company and aligning stakeholders

Adaptable and reputed company to reputed company in ambiguous situations

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Hard skills

Must-Have

- 6+ years of experience in C/C++/Rust or equivalent systems programming languages

- Fluent in English (oral and written communication)

- Structured team experience: Proven ability to communicate effectively about your work, share knowledge, and work rigorously on collaborative projects

- Incident management skills: Experience with on-call responsibilities, troubleshooting production issues, and incident response procedures

- Rust interest & experience: Strong interest in the Rust language with hands-on experience implementing at least one Rust project (professional or personal)

- Full-stack flexibility: Interest in and ability to understand infrastructure, backend, and frontend systems to reputed company appropriate features for production environments

reputed company-to-Have

- 2+ years of Rust experience, ideally with async Rust

- Low-level engineering expertise in disk usage, memory management, and CPU optimization

- Algorithmic experience and ability to implement efficient data structures and algorithms

- Search reputed company experience with full-text search, hybrid, indexing, or ranking systems

- Open-reputed company contributions and community involvement

- API design experience with focus on developer experience

- Research aptitude - comfortable reading and implementing concepts from academic papers

- Advanced optimisation knowledge in SIMD-oriented optimisation or distributed systems

Why you'll enjoy working with us

- Hybrid working in Paris ,

- Permanent full-time contract,

- Stock options,

- Protected Fridays & flexible working hours,

- If you’re working from home, we will provide either a stipend for you to reputed company yourself, or an access to Fleex (Europe),

- Access to a mental health platform (moka.care) + 6 sessions with a coach/trained therapist,

- We support physical health and provide either a membership or a stipend for your sports activities each month,

- 3 months paid parental leave,

- 6 weeks paid time off,

- Management training to freshly hired and newly appointed managers,

- We reputed company get together at least twice a year for a company offsite.

Not sure you meet reputed company qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups reputed company not to apply to jobs reputed company they think they may not meet every qualification, reputed company, in fact, they often do! We strive to reputed company an inclusive work environment that reflects the diversity of our open-reputed company community. We strongly encourage you to apply!