Hybrid Senior Engineering Lead

at Meilisearch

• Job title: Senior Engineering Lead
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: AWS, Docker, JavaScript, Kubernetes, Node.js, Python, React, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Rust
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Paris, France

About the role

• Senior Engineering Lead bridging technical excellence with strategic vision at Meilisearch. Steering development and leadership in a hybrid working environment with focus on customer value.

Responsibilities

• Join Meilisearch's Experience team as a Senior Engineering Lead (Experience Team), bridging technical excellence with strategic vision.
• Splitting your time between development and technical leadership.
• Steering the team to technical and operational excellence.
• Ensuring customers receive maximum value through rapid, iterative delivery.
• Partnering with Head of Experience & Engineering Operations to guide technical decisions.
• Mentoring developers and ensuring meaningful customer impact.
• Championing iterative delivery approaches to get value to customers quickly.
• Guiding architectural decisions and maintaining technical standards and quality guidelines.
• Participating in on-call rotation and leading incident response when technical issues arise.

Requirements

• 8-12+ years of software development experience
• Deep Ruby on Rails expertise (non-negotiable)
• Experience with React, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub Actions
• Background in systems engineering & interest in learning Rust fundamentals, understanding our search engine architecture
• Cross-functional collaboration with product stakeholders
• 3+ years technical leadership/mentoring experience
• Strong communication skills
• Additional backend languages (Rust, Python, Node.js, etc.)
• Search/database technology background
• AI/ML experience

Benefits

• Hybrid working in Paris 🇫🇷, remote in EU or US East-coast timezone.
• 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 equip 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 all get together at least twice a year for a company offsite.