Senior Software Engineer

🕒 September 10, 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

• - Feature Development: Develop on features such as AI search, personalisation, enhanced data relationships, and search recommendations. Understand our customers, propose & implement new capabilities that support our their real-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 intuitive APIs that make 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 • - Support Partnership: Work alongside our Meilisearch Cloud support team to investigate & resolve complex customer issues and improve product experience • - Knowledge Transfer: Coach and support team members on engine internals to enable better customer assistance. Identify patterns where we could make big impacts. • - Customer Impact: Contribute to missions focused on customer retention and activation through both performance improvements and new capabilities

🎯 Requirements

• - 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 develop appropriate features for production environments • Nice-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 engine experience with full-text search, hybrid, indexing, or ranking systems • - Open-source 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

🏖️ Benefits

• - Hybrid working in Paris 🇫🇷 or remote in EU or East-Cost 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.