Sales Engineer - Italian Speaking

London, England

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About the Position

Algolia is the retrieval intelligence layer that turns intent into trusted, decision-grade outcomes. Powering more than 1.7 trillion queries a year for over 18,000 customers with millisecond latency and 99.999% reliability, we are the recognized leader for Search and Product Discovery by top industry analyst firms. The Algolia platform turns a company's products, content, and business rules into data that humans, applications and AI agents can act upon. The result is trusted customer experiences with stronger conversions for measurable business impact.

At Algolia, we are passionate about helping developers & product teams connect their users with what matters most in milliseconds! 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 evangelise and drive technical success with our solutions.

We are looking for experienced, curious, and driven Solutions Engineers to help customers realise the full value of our platform in a fast-growing market.

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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 in order to relay to Product and Engineering teams
• Continuously learn and update skills and keep aware of industry trends in the Search and Discovery space, and contribute to thought leadership to make Algolia more accessible to the world.
• Work with the Solution Architects and Customer Success teams on seamless transition to the post sales process to ensure highly successful onboarding

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Requirements

• Fluency in Italian and English
• 3+ years experience in a customer-facing technical role, 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 organisational skills working with multiple customers and have the ability to switch context quickly throughout the day with various competing demands and attention to detail
• Experience at our current stage and beyond ($150-300M+ ARR range, high growth, lots of change and building internal infrastructure)

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Nice to Have

• Additional European languages such as Spanish
• A background in the search industry or e-commerce
• Specific knowledge in frameworks 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

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We Offer

• On-Target Earnings Pay Range: £77,000 - £96,750 GBP
• FLEXIBLE WORKPLACE STRATEGY: Algolia’s flexible workplace model is designed to empower all Algolians to fulfill our mission to power search and discovery with ease. We place an emphasis on an individual’s impact, contribution, and output, over their physical location. Algolia is a high-trust environment and many of our team members have the autonomy to choose where they want to work and when.

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About the Company

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.

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IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR CANDIDATES - Recruitment Fraud Notice

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

• Our open positions may appear on third-party job boards, but the best way to apply safely 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 who does not have an @algolia.com email address, please do not respond or share any personal information.
• We’ll never ask for payments, purchases, or financial details during the hiring process.

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READY TO APPLY?

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