Meilisearch
Our Mission
Meilisearch is on a mission to help developers create great search experiences. We want to make it easy to find anything anywhere by providing a Rust-based search engine with a focus on usability and intuitive API design.
We are a fully open-source company: from our search engine, to our design specifications, to our official SDKs and libraries, everything we do is public, transparent, and made in collaboration with our vibrant community.
Founded in 2018, Meilisearch is headquartered in Paris. We completed a $15 million round of funding in September 2022, and are backed by leading international investors including Felicis Ventures, CRV and LocalGlobe.
Meilisearch is a young company with great potential to effect positive change.
Building an open-source technology for everyone’s use, its team is fully aware that its success is dependent on the breadth of inputs, insights, and experiences they can feedback into their research.
That’s why Meilisearch has naturally fostered a culture of diversity and inclusion right from the start. With the help of each of its members, it is deeply committed to reflecting this ethos as it keeps growing.
– Caroline & the 50inTech team
Our Values
We've identified our values by talking with everyone inside the company, as we believe it's really about the values that we have, not the values that we aspire to have. Here is what we've come up with:
Commitment:
- We are passionate about what we do, and maintain a healthy balance between work and passion.
- We care about the project, we won't hesitate to go beyond our individual job scopes to make Meili a success.
- We disagree & commit, we are all constructively opinionated.
Quality & simplicity:
- We prefer quality over rapidity. Working in open-source means respecting certain standards. We would rather be rigorous than rapid.
- We are pragmatic and aren't looking to reinvent the wheel. We believe aiming for perfection is counterproductive, and are ok with failure as long as it means failing forward.
Openness:
- We want to give back to open source by offering a free, high quality solution in collaboration with our community
- We find solutions together and highly value collaboration. We accept no one knows everything
- We value diversity by giving space for individual initiative & welcoming different opinions
Our Diversity actions
- Equal pay - we have a salary grid that applies to everyone and clearly and transparently states salary expectations depending on where you stand in the framework, the scope of your role and your responsibilities.
- Career path – we have a transparent career development framework, with detailed steps, that includes 2 paths: individual contributor and manager. So even if you don't want to or can't become a manager, there is scope for development within the company.
- Flexibility – we offer great flexibility in terms of hours, remote work, and schedule. People can make their own hours as long as communication is clear and the manager is ok with that. We work with people all over the world, so we work asynchronously, and we usually work a 4-day week.
- Parental act – we offer our team members 3 months "second-parent" maternity and paternity leave, wherever in the world they are based.
- Recruitment process – in order to avoid bias we always have at least 2 people present at every step of the recruitment process.
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It's about time we realised that we did some dumb things in the past, and now we can change things for the better, if we are communicating and speaking and taking into account all kinds of minorities and people with different experiences and different views of the world.
— Thomas Payet, Co-founder & COO
Perks
- Distributed teams: you are free to work wherever you want, as long as the time difference with France and/or the rest of your team is manageable (e.g GMT+4 to GMT-7 is fine)
- 4 day work week & 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). We also reimburse up to 500 EUR / month for your co working expenses,
- 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,
- Swile lunch card for French contracts, equivalent of 11€ lunch allowance/day for other countries
- Reimbursement of 100% of health insurance (Alan) for French contracts. Reimbursement on a case-by-case basis for other countries
- Management training to freshly hired and newly appointed managers,
- We all get together at least once a year for a company offsite.
Recruitment Process
- 45 min screening call with our Talent Acquisition Manager, to discuss practical subjects such as availability, salary and job scope expectations
- 1h video call with the Hiring Manager & someone else from the team you will be working with
- Depending on the position, there might be a case study. We generally ask for it be done within a 2h time frame and organize a 60 min debrief quickly afterward
- 1h video call with one or two people from teams you will engage with every day, to speak about your experience, and skillset and to assess your fit with Meilisearch values.
- Reference check
Depending on the role you are applying for and the team it involves, the process might change a bit. What is important to keep in mind is we try as much as possible to avoid bias by having at least 2 people present during the interviews after screening calls. This is also a good way for us to make people from different teams feel involved in the growth of the company.
We want to make it clear that we're looking more for a state of mind than a set of technical skills.
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