Senior Solutions Engineer - German Speaker

About Algolia

At Algolia, we’re proud to be a pioneer and market leader in AI Search, empowering 17,000+ businesses to deliver blazing-fast, predictive search and browse experiences at internet scale. Every week, we power over 30 billion search requests — four times more than Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex, and DuckDuckGo combined.

In 2021, we raised $150 million in Series D funding, quadrupling our valuation to $2.25 billion. This strong foundation enables us to keep investing in our market‑leading platform and serving incredible customers like Under Armour, PetSmart, Stripe, Gymshark, and Walgreens.

Algolia provides the industry’s most powerful search and discovery SaaS platform, driving richer, more powerful engagement and success capabilities to over 17,000 companies. We are seeking passionate and industrious Solutions Engineers ready to join a hyper‑growth business and market to help evangelize and drive technical success with our solutions.

Role Overview

This role is a critical part of Algolia’s go‑to‑market organization, working closely with Sales and Solutions partners to drive revenue, customer adoption, and best practices. You will own the technical pre‑sales relationship across opportunities and accounts, partner with Account Executives to demonstrate the product and underlying architecture, address technical and business objections, and deliver thoughtful, consultative solutions that result in a strong technical win and clear product fit.

You will act as both a deep technical expert and a trusted advisor—comfortable presenting to a CTO, collaborating with product managers, or building prototypes and integrations directly with customer engineers using Algolia’s APIs. You will also serve as an advocate for customer needs internally, partnering with Product and Engineering, contributing to technical content, enabling internal teams, and supporting cross‑company initiatives that improve how customers succeed with Algolia.

Responsibilities

• Work with Sales Teams and prospects on their evaluation and adoption of Algolia solutions
• Understand and qualify customer goals with KPIs and effectively articulate Algolia’s ability to meet them
• Assist in the Sales process including discovery, demo, Proofs of Concept (POC), RFP responses & business justification
• Develop custom search applications leveraging the tools, frameworks, and partners of the Algolia ecosystem
• Distill and advocate customer interests, needs, and product feedback to Product and Engineering teams
• Continuously learn and update skills, stay aware of industry trends in the Search and Discovery space, and contribute to thought leadership to make Algolia more accessible
• Work with Solution Architects and Customer Success teams on seamless transition to the post‑sales process to ensure highly successful onboarding

Requirements

• Speak German fluently
• Obsessed with solving customer problems
• 4+ years experience in a customer‑facing technical role (SE, SA, consultant, PM), ideally in the SaaS space
• Previous software development experience in one or more of the following areas:
  • Front End: JavaScript, TypeScript, React
  • Back‑End: Java, Ruby, Go, Node, Python, Swift/Objective‑C
• Experience with data formats and data transformation
• Great oral and written communication skills
• Superior organizational skills working with multiple customers; ability to switch context quickly throughout the day with various competing demands and attention to detail
• Experience at our current stage and beyond ($150‑300 M+ ARR range, high growth, lots of change and building internal infrastructure)

Nice to Have

• Background in the search industry or e‑commerce
• Specific knowledge in frameworks such as Magento, Shopify, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, commercetools, and alike
• Familiarity with emerging concepts in agentic AI systems (e.g., autonomous reasoning, tool use, or multi‑agent orchestration)
• Knowledge in Analytics, SEO

Flexible Workplace Strategy

Algolia’s flexible workplace model empowers all Algolians to fulfill our mission to power search and discovery with ease. We emphasize impact, contribution, and output over physical location. Algolia is a high‑trust environment; many team members have the autonomy to choose where and when they work.

• Global presence with offices in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney, and Bucharest
• Options for fully remote, hybrid‑remote, or in‑office schedules depending on the role and location
• Positions listed as “Remote” are only available for remote work within the specified country; city‑specific positions are limited to that location

Our Values

• GRIT – Problem‑solving and perseverance in an ever‑changing, growing environment
• TRUST – Willingness to trust co‑workers and take ownership
• CANDOR – Ability to receive and give constructive feedback
• CARE – Genuine care for team members, clients, and company decisions
• HUMILITY – Aptitude for learning from others, putting ego aside

Inclusion & Diversity

We’re looking for talented, passionate people to help build the world’s best search and discovery technology. We value autonomy, diversity, and collaboration. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is respected and supported—regardless of race, age, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, color, veteran status, disability, or socioeconomic background.

Recruitment Fraud Notice

We’ve recently seen an increase in recruitment scams targeting job seekers. To protect yourself, keep the following in mind:

• Our open positions may appear on third‑party job boards, but the safest way to apply is directly through our careers page.
• All genuine communication from Algolia will come from an @algolia.com email address. If you receive an email from someone claiming to work at Algolia without an @algolia.com address, do not respond or share personal information.
• We will never ask for payments, purchases, or financial details during the hiring process.

Ready to Apply?

If you share our values and enthusiasm for building the world’s best search & discovery technology, we’d love to review your application!