About the role

We are looking for a profile who has experience and a preference for front-end, but who will also be able to work on back-end issues, and will be comfortable navigating among different scopes.

As a Software Engineer working on a new product at an early stage, your main mission will be to implement features defined by the team’s Product Manager. You will be reporting to the Team Lead, Nicolas.

Here is Meili Cloud’s current stack:

- Front-end (React / Tailwind / Cypress / Vercel)

- Back-end (Ruby on Rails / PostgreSQL / Heroku)

- Infra (DigitalOcean / Kubernetes / Docker)

- GitHub / GitHub Actions

What you’ll be doing

As a Fullstack Software Engineer within the Cloud team, your role will include:

👉 Developing features in both front-end and back-end,

👉 Fix bugs in both front-end and back-end,

👉 Implementing tests in both front-end and back-end,

👉 Ensuring front-end scalability and best practices by actively keeping yourself updated about the market and new technologies,

👉 Proactively making propositions regarding our product’s front-end growth and evolutions,

👉 Being able to integrate our Product Designers’ recommendations & work in the application.

As a Meilisearch team member, you will also:

👉 Help in supporting developers use Meilisearch,

👉 Participate in answering the community’s questions in Slack and GitHub,

👉 Interact with other teams within Meilisearch to improve user and developer experience.

Our ideal profile

Soft skills

Your fit with our team is as important to us as your technical background, if not more so. We are looking for someone with these important soft skills:

👉 Rigorous and detail-oriented: our open source product has strongly impacted our culture and values. Rigor and cleanliness of code are a must.

👉 Self-driven and pragmatic: you will be working on a new product, in a not-so-old company :) we are looking for a “builder” profile, who will look for and offer solutions, without trying to reinvent the wheel each time.

👉 Outstanding communication skills: you are attached to documenting your work and clearly communicating with your team about the choices you make. Ideally, you have experience working with remote colleagues.

Hard skills

Must-have

👉 3+ years of experience in Javascript front-end,

👉 Experience with React,

👉 Experience with back-end languages such as Ruby on Rails and/or Python, Django,

👉 You are fluent in English: you don’t have to be bilingual, but you will communicate with international team members as well as users (oral and written).

Nice to have

👉 Experience working on the development of a SaaS,

👉 Experience as a full-stack developer.

Why you'll enjoy working with us

Permanent full-time contract,
We strongly value the wellness of our employees and are committed to making Meilisearch a benevolent place to work (attention to work-life balance, 3 months paid parental leave, 4 day work week),
We are open to fully remote applications, as long as you are between GMT-4 and GMT+2 time zones.

Recruitment process

Please send us your resume and a quick note of why you might be a good fit for this job. Don't hesitate to have a look at our LinkedIn page, as well as our Meet the Team page (under construction)
If your profile fits, you will meet our HR and one of our co-founders. They will contact you for a video call to get to know you a bit better (who you are, your background & ambitions, company culture & company ambition): 1h. If it doesn't fit you will get an email from us.
You will meet the Cloud team lead and tech lead (1h video call)
You will get a technical test (either peer coding or something to do at home) + a 30 min debrief quickly after
You will meet two other people from Meili for a team fit interview: Amélie and Charline
Our HR will do a reference check - don’t hesitate to give her the contact information of 2 people you’ve worked with in the past (preferably former managers).

Meilisearch is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to develop an inclusive work environment that reflects the diversity of our open-source community.