Software Engineer, Growth at Algolia
$136,400–$196,100
Jul 12, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A full-stack engineering role within a Growth team focused on improving how new users discover and adopt a search platform. Day-to-day work spans building and iterating on onboarding and activation flows, running A/B experiments, and contributing to internal Growth infrastructure such as experimentation and notification platforms. Suits engineers comfortable working across backend (Ruby, with Go exploration) and frontend (TypeScript, React) who lean on data to guide decisions.
Mid level · Remote
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 27,500 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 16,500–41,300
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The role has no explicit title-level seniority word; the requirements describe someone with 'some experience' in event-driven infrastructure and comfort (or eagerness to grow) across the stack, pointing to a Mid-level band rather than Senior.
GCP and AWS are presented as interchangeable ('GCP or AWS'); GCP is listed first and captured as the primary with AWS as an alternative.
Ruby is the current backend language in use; Go is called out as being explored — it appears in the requirements section but is framed as future/exploratory, so it is marked preferred.
TypeScript and React appear in the requirements section under a 'comfortable working across the stack' framing; they are treated as hard gates given their placement in the requirements block.
Amplitude and Hex appear explicitly under the 'Nice to have' section.
No compensation, degree, or clearance information is provided in the posting.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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