{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"bdb6ebed0587b61e48e57cf5","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/bdb6ebed0587b61e48e57cf5","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/bdb6ebed0587b61e48e57cf5","title":"Experience - Senior Software Engineer (Rust & Full-stack)","description":"About the company\r\nMeilisearch is redefining the future of search for developers and end-users alike.\r\nOur open-source, Rust-powered search engine delivers lightning-fast, typo-tolerant, and hyper-relevant results—out-of-the-box, with intuitive APIs and minimal configuration.\r\nFrom powering the discoverability of 300,000+ AI models at Hugging Face to transforming retail experiences for Louis Vuitton, Meilisearch is trusted by thousands of organizations and developers worldwide.\r\nSince 2018, we've grown into a remote-first team across 8+ countries, backed by leading investors including Felicis Ventures, CRV and Seedcamp. Our vibrant community drives innovation, with every design spec, SDK, and feature built transparently in collaboration with contributors.\r\nJoin us and help shape the next generation of search—where speed, simplicity, and developer experience come first.\r\nAbout the Role\r\nWe're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Experience team and help us build the future of search technology. You'll be primarily working on Meilisearch, our blazingly fast and ultra-relevant search engine built in Rust.\r\nWe're seeking someone with a flexible, full-stack mindset - while you'll primarily work on our Rust-based search engine, you should be interested in and able to understand infrastructure, backend systems, and frontend needs to develop the most appropriate features for our production environment. Adaptability across our tech stack is essential so that you have the capacity to contribute where it's most impactful.\r\nAs a key member of our Experience team, you'll work in mission-based squads to drive customer retention, attraction and activation initiatives. This role combines deep technical work with a strong customer focus - you'll collaborate closely with our support team to enhance the customer journey and ensure customers have an excellent experience with Meilisearch.\r\nYou will report directly to the Head of Experience & Engineering Operations while working hand-in-hand with other engineers and colleagues across the organisation.\r\nKey Responsibilities\r\nCore Engineering\r\nFeature 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 real-world needs.\r\nExperience Optimisation : Balance performance and relevancy results to enhance the customer experience, ensuring fast, accurate search results that meet user expectations.\r\nDeveloper Experience & APIs : Design and build intuitive APIs that make Meilisearch a joy for developers to integrate and use.\r\nProduction Reliability : Participate in on-call rotations and incident management to ensure system reliability and quick resolution of production issues.\r\nCustomer-Focused Collaboration\r\nSupport Partnership : Work alongside our Meilisearch Cloud support team to investigate & resolve complex customer issues and improve product experience.\r\nKnowledge Transfer : Coach and support team members on engine internals to enable better customer assistance. Identify patterns where we could make big impacts.\r\nCustomer Impact : Contribute to missions focused on customer retention and activation through both performance improvements and new capabilities.\r\nOur ideal profile\r\nSoft skills\r\nExcellent collaboration skills across disciplines. You will be partnering with backend, front end & infrastructure developers, PMs, documentation, and design teams.\r\nAbility to balance technical depth with strategic thinking.\r\nComfortable making tough technical decisions and aligning stakeholders.\r\nAdaptable and able to thrive in ambiguous situations.\r\nFlexible mindset, willing to tackle problems outside your initial scope.\r\nHard skills\r\nMust-Have\r\n6+ years of experience in C/C++/Rust or equivalent systems programming languages.\r\nFluent in English (oral and written communication).\r\nStructured team experience : Proven ability to communicate effectively about your work, share knowledge, and work rigorously on collaborative projects.\r\nIncident management skills : Experience with on-call responsibilities, troubleshooting production issues, and incident response procedures.\r\nRust interest & experience : Strong interest in the Rust language with hands-on experience implementing at least one Rust project (professional or personal).\r\nFull-stack flexibility : Interest in and ability to understand infrastructure, backend, and frontend systems to develop appropriate features for production environments.\r\nNice-to-Have\r\n2+ years of Rust experience , ideally with async Rust.\r\nLow-level engineering expertise in disk usage, memory management, and CPU optimization.\r\nAlgorithmic experience and ability to implement efficient data structures and algorithms.\r\nSearch engine experience with full-text search, hybrid, indexing, or ranking systems.\r\nOpen-source contributions and community involvement.\r\nAPI design experience with focus on developer experience.\r\nResearch aptitude - comfortable reading and implementing concepts from academic papers.\r\nAdvanced optimisation knowledge in SIMD-oriented optimisation or distributed systems.\r\n€86,987 - €106,651 a year\r\nWhy you'll enjoy working with us\r\nHybrid working in Paris , remote in EU or US East-coast timezone.\r\nPermanent full-time contract.\r\nStock options.\r\nProtected Fridays & flexible working hours.\r\nIf you're working from home, we will provide either a stipend for you to equip yourself, or an access to Fleex (Europe).\r\nAccess to a mental health platform (moka.care) + 6 sessions with a coach/trained therapist.\r\nWe support physical health and provide either a membership or a stipend for your sports activities each month.\r\n3 months paid parental leave.\r\n6 weeks paid time off.\r\nManagement training to freshly hired and newly appointed managers.\r\nWe all get together at least twice a year for a company offsite.\r\nNot sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend not to apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We strive to develop an inclusive work environment that reflects the diversity of our open-source community. We strongly encourage you to apply!\r\nSome of our repositories: https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch, https://github.com/meilisearch/heed, https://github.com/meilisearch/charabia, https://github.com/meilisearch/arroy, https://github.com/meilisearch/deserr\r\nJ-18808-Ljbffr","company":"Meilisearch","rawCompany":"meilisearch","city":"Paris","state":"TX","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-04-09T15:39:51.226Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1254.00","title":"Web Developers","slug":"web-developers"}],"industries":[{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Experience - Senior Software Engineer (Rust & Full-stack)","description":"About the company\r\nMeilisearch is redefining the future of search for developers and end-users alike.\r\nOur open-source, Rust-powered search engine delivers lightning-fast, typo-tolerant, and hyper-relevant results—out-of-the-box, with intuitive APIs and minimal configuration.\r\nFrom powering the discoverability of 300,000+ AI models at Hugging Face to transforming retail experiences for Louis Vuitton, Meilisearch is trusted by thousands of organizations and developers worldwide.\r\nSince 2018, we've grown into a remote-first team across 8+ countries, backed by leading investors including Felicis Ventures, CRV and Seedcamp. 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Adaptability across our tech stack is essential so that you have the capacity to contribute where it's most impactful.\r\nAs a key member of our Experience team, you'll work in mission-based squads to drive customer retention, attraction and activation initiatives. This role combines deep technical work with a strong customer focus - you'll collaborate closely with our support team to enhance the customer journey and ensure customers have an excellent experience with Meilisearch.\r\nYou will report directly to the Head of Experience & Engineering Operations while working hand-in-hand with other engineers and colleagues across the organisation.\r\nKey Responsibilities\r\nCore Engineering\r\nFeature Development : Develop on features such as AI search, personalisation, enhanced data relationships, and search recommendations. 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