Senior Engineering Lead

🕒 October 17, 2025

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Meilisearch

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11 - 50 employees

🤝 B2B

☁️ SaaS

🔌 API

💰 $15M Series A on 2022-10

B2B • SaaS • API

Meilisearch is a flexible and powerful user-focused search engine that seamlessly integrates into websites and applications. It offers a lightning-fast, search-as-you-type experience, with results returning in less than 50 milliseconds. Designed for ease of use, Meilisearch can be deployed with minimal setup and features smart presets for zero-configuration searching. It enhances relevancy out-of-the-box, utilizing advanced full-text, semantic, and AI-powered hybrid search capabilities. Meilisearch supports multi-modal search, allowing images, videos, and audio to be included in search queries, and offers features like geosearch and filtering for enhanced relevancy. Trusted by industry innovators, Meilisearch provides a comprehensive toolkit for building complex interfaces and delivers insights through search analytics. The company focuses on providing a superior developer experience with self-explanatory APIs and extensive SDK support, making it a preferred choice for many enterprises.

📋 Description

• 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.