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Sales Engineer - Italian Speaking
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Solutions Engineer (Hybrid) at 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.
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 to help evangelise and drive technical success with our solutions.
About the Role
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.
This role is a critical part of Algolia’s go-to-market organisation, working closely with Sales and Solutions partners to drive revenue, customer adoption, and best practices. You will play a key role in helping prospects and customers evaluate Algolia, understand its technical capabilities, and successfully apply it to their use cases.
In this position, 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, delivering 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, equally comfortable presenting to a CTO, collaborating with product managers, or building prototypes and integrations directly with customer engineers using Algolia’s APIs.
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You thrive in conversations with engineers, product leaders, and executives, and know how to translate complex technical concepts into clear business value for diverse audiences.
Beyond customer-facing work, you will 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.
Our priorities are guided by a simple question: what will help our customers be more successful with Algolia?
Key Responsibilities
- Work with Sales Teams and prospects to evaluate and adopt Algolia solutions
- Understand and qualify customer goals (KPIs) and effectively articulate Algolia’s ability to meet them
- Assist in the Sales process including:
- Discovery, demos
- 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 relay to Product and Engineering teams
- Continuously learn and update skills, staying aware of industry trends in Search and Discovery, 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
You might be a great fit if you have:
Essential
- Fluency in Italian and English
- Obsession with solving customer problems
- 4+ years of 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:
- 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, flexibility to work with multiple customers, and the ability to quickly switch contexts
- Experience at a high-growth stage ($150-300M+ ARR range)
- Fast-paced, evolving workflows, and scaling of processes
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Nice to Have
- Additional European languages (e.g., Spanish)
- Background in search industry or e-commerce
- Knowledge of Magento, Shopify, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, commercetools, and similar frameworks
- Familiarity with emerging concepts in agentic AI (e.g., autonomous reasoning, tool use, or multi-agent orchestration)
- Experience in Analytics, SEO
- A hybrid work mindset for a remote-first or flexible workspace
Benefits & Culture
Compensation (Base + Commission in London)
- On-Target Earnings Pay Range: £97,000–£135,000 GBP
Flexible Workplace Model
Algolia operates in a high-trust, output-focused environment. While headquartered in Paris, NYC, London, Sydney, and Bucharest, many roles offer:
- Fully remote work
- Hybrid-remote options (Role-specific locations for full details.)
Core Values
We’re looking for someone who embodies our culture of GRIT, TRUST, CANDOR, CARE, and HUMILITY alongside deep technical expertise.
Algolia is committed to creating an inclusive workplace where respect and support drive every decision. We celebrate diversity along every axis and actively promote equity in our work environment.
Important Notice for Candidates
Be cautious of scams. Algolia’s official:
- Website: algolia.com/careers
- Email domain: Only @algolia.com
- Hiring process: No requests for payments or financial details will ever occur.
Apply now if you share our passion for reshaping search and discovery technology!
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