Principal Back End Engineer

Permanent contract
Paris
Salary: Not specified
Fully-remote

AODocs
AODocs

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Job description

In a period of growth, Aodocs’ R&D department continues to structure itself. You will collaborate with Aodocs’ R&D and Services teams (each team consisting of multiple developers, a QA specialist, a Product Owner, and a Site Reliability Engineer) to realize the technical vision of the Aodocs product and find innovative technical solutions suitable for Aodocs’ ambitious goals. Under the direct responsibility of the CTO, you will participate in the development of the operational and technical backend strategy.

Our infrastructure is entirely based on the Google Cloud Platform. We primarily code in Java and to some extent in Javascript and Go.

Your Responsibilities

  • Ensure the technical and technological alignment of the backend platform according to Aodocs’ business objectives.

  • Work alongside the CTO, R&D teams, and services teams, to realize the technical vision of our products.

  • Manage the Backend technical team, which includes the back end developers in R&D, defining methods, processes, best practices, tools, architecture, and more.

  • Foster a team spirit to unite and empower backend engineers in addressing technical challenges related to Aodocs’ business.

  • Ensure the operational continuity of the platform (backend).

  • Define and follow an architectural roadmap that addresses business challenges (functional and technical).

  • Promote a culture of innovation within the technical team (recruitment, onboarding, training, and technical leadership for backend engineers).


Preferred experience

You:

  • Experience as a technical lead or head of a technical team in a scale-up.

  • Experience in Modern Architecture, such as API design, REST, GraphQL, Microservices, Serverless, service security (A&A, OAuth2, attacks/defenses), observability, tracing, monitoring, design patterns (EIP, Event-driven architecture, Hexagonal architecture), data pipelines, data lakes, datamesh, DDD, BDD, TDD, and cloud providers.

  • Extensive knowledge of multiple technologies (backend languages, middleware, databases, cloud, DevOps).

  • Experience in a production environment, either in a high-traffic or high-volume setting, or with performance issues.

  • The ability to define a roadmap (organize, set priorities, communicate, translate the product vision into technical specifications).

  • Knowledge in the field of Document Management (GED).

  • Background in development in Java.

Flexible full remote policy from France.

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