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# Spontaneous applications at Meilisearch

- **Company:** Meilisearch
- **Location:** Remote
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2021-07-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/meili/00f971bb-ba4e-4daa-ae23-823602a9461b

## Job description

## About the company

Meilisearch is redefining the future of search for developers and end-users alike. Our 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. From 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.

Since 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.

Join us and help shape the next generation of search—where speed, simplicity, and developer experience come first.

We are growing quickly and are first and foremost looking for talented people: if you're not seeing any position that fits your profile, don't hesitate to send us your application anyway! Please let us know what your ideal job would be at MeiliSearch :)

## Why you'll enjoy working with us

- Hybrid working in Paris 🇫🇷, remote in EU or US East-coast timezone.
- Permanent full-time contract,
- Stock options,
- Protected Fridays & flexible working hours,
- If you’re working from home, we will provide either a stipend for you to equip yourself, or an access to Fleex (Europe),
- Access to a mental health platform (moka.care) + 6 sessions with a coach/trained therapist,
- We support physical health and provide either a membership or a stipend for your sports activities each month,
- 3 months paid parental leave,
- 6 weeks paid time off,
- Management training to freshly hired and newly appointed managers,
- We all get together at least twice a year for a company offsite.

Not 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!

## About Meilisearch

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Meilisearch is a flexible, open-source search engine that provides a unified platform for search and AI retrieval, designed to be fast, relevant, and easy to integrate into any website or application.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funded startup)
- **Headquarters**: Paris, France
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Not publicly available from provided sources

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Search technology, AI retrieval, developer tools
- Target customers: B2B; developers, organizations of all sizes (from startups to enterprises)
- Mission or purpose statement: To become the standard search technology that most developers use in the future.

## Products & Services
- **[Meilisearch Cloud](https://www.meilisearch.com/)**: SaaS platform offering managed search with features like semantic search, multimodal search, vector storage, federated search, and search analytics. Deployable in minutes with zero configuration.
- **[Meilisearch Open Source](https://www.meilisearch.com/)**: Open-source search engine (57k+ GitHub stars) that can be self-hosted. Provides search-as-you-type with sub-50ms response times, geosearch, faceting, and advanced full-text search.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Over 57,000 GitHub stars; used by prominent teams such as Hugging Face (300,000+ AI models) and Louis Vuitton.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available from provided sources (the company is described as a funded startup with investors, but specific names are not mentioned in the search results).
- **Growth Signals**: Rapidly growing community and adoption; bottom-up developer adoption strategy; transition from open-source focus to a more revenue-oriented company; distributed team across multiple continents.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open-source and developer-friendly**: Free, customizable, and no vendor lock-in.
- **Simplicity**: Designed for easy integration with self-explanatory API and smart presets.
- **Performance**: Search-as-you-type returns results in less than 50 milliseconds.
- **Low total cost of ownership**: Quick to try, no proprietary lock-in, and community support.
- **Bottom-up adoption**: Winning individual developers leads to organizational adoption.

## Strategic Focus
- Current priorities: Building features to match industry standards, then surpassing them to become the standard search technology itself. Diversifying beyond open-source with stronger revenue focus, including more business, marketing, and sales roles.
- Investing in a great work environment and team diversity.

## Why Work Here
- **Work-life balance**: 4-day work week (paid as full-time), 6 weeks paid time off, 3 months parental leave.
- **Remote-first**: 80% of the team works fully remote; the rest can use the Paris office. Coworking spaces are reimbursed.
- **Culture**: Transparent salary grid, stock options, equity for everyone, and a public career framework. Equal pay for equal work globally, with salaries based on total cost to the company.
- **Team**: Regular offsites, company events, and remote activities. Highly distributed team across Europe, South America, Africa, and the Middle East.
- **Perks**: Local health insurance, sport stipend, confidential mental health support.

## Sources
1. [Meilisearch Careers Page](https://www.meilisearch.com/careers)
2. [Meilisearch Homepage](https://www.meilisearch.com/)
3. [Meilisearch Handbook – Strategy](https://handbook.meilisearch.com/guide/strategy.html)
4. [Meilisearch Blog – Approach to Salaries](https://www.meilisearch.com/blog/our-approach-to-salaries)

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