Hybrid Senior Engineering Lead

Posted 4 weeks ago

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About the role

  • 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.

Job title

Senior Engineering Lead

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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