Mid/Senior Backend Developer

Job summary
Permanent contract
Paris
Salary: Not specified
Starting date: October 31, 2024
Fully-remote
Experience: > 3 years
Education: Master's Degree
Skills & expertise
Generated content
Communication skills
DevOps principles
Github
Mysql
Cypress
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Happydemics
Happydemics

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The position

Job description

You will join one of our feature teams and work closely with its members as a Mid/Senior Backend Developer to support and participate in the development, deployment, and maintenance of our features. You will ensure that our architecture is scalable and can meet future growth demands while delivering high-performance solutions.

Your missions 👩‍🚀

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services, ensuring high performance and availability.

  • Build and manage relational databases using MySQL, optimizing database performance for scalability.

  • Develop and maintain secure, well-documented RESTful APIs, ensuring seamless integration with frontend and third-party services.

  • Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including frontend developers, Product Managers, and DevOps, to ensure cohesive development and deployment.

  • Implement shift-left security practices by integrating security checks early in the development lifecycle and following best practices for secure coding.

  • Write and maintain automated tests (from unit to end-to-end level) to ensure high-quality code, minimizing bugs and regressions.

  • Participate in the CI/CD process, working with DevOps to streamline deployment and monitor production systems.

  • Review colleagues PR, providing constructive feedback and ensuring adherence to coding standards, with an emphasis on security and performance.

  • Mentor junior developers and contribute to team knowledge sharing, fostering a culture of collaboration, growth, and innovation.

The advantages ⭐️

  • Full-remote-first and English-first squads

  • Flexible work schedule with a result-oriented culture.

  • For full-remote positions, we cover the occasional travel expenses to visit us in Paris.

  • Join a solid tech product and a healthy, break-even business with impressive growth.

  • Collaborate with a team of experienced and passionate developers.

Our (current) Stack 🛠

DevOps:

  • AWS, Terraform Cloud

  • RubyOnRail and MySQL

  • Python

  • Go

  • CI and CD on GitHub Actions

  • React

Tools:

  • Sentry

  • Datadog

  • Metabase

  • Cypress

See detailed stack here


Preferred experience

Hard skills 👩‍💻

  • 3 years+ Backend professional experience

  • Solid experience building, optimizing, and scaling applications backend (RoR, NodeJS, Python or Go based)

  • Expertise in designing, querying, and optimizing MySQL databases for performance and scalability.

  • Strong knowledge of designing, developing, and securing RESTful APIs, ensuring seamless integration with various frontend and third-party systems.

  • Hands-on experience with writing and maintaining automated tests ensuring code quality and reliability.

  • Experience working with CI/CD tools and processes, particularly for automating deployment and monitoring production systems.

Soft skills 🫱🏿‍🫲🏼

  • Know, share and apply coding best practices and guidelines

  • Reactive, resourceful, passionate

  • English efficient (oral and written)

  • Autodidact or graduate from an Engineering school / Master of Informatics

  • Good communication and synthetics skills

  • Autonomous and meticulous


Recruitment process

  1. a first visio interview with our CTO

  2. a technical interview with one of our Expert Backend Developer and our Head of Engineering

  3. a technical exercice to do asynchronously with quick oral debrief

  4. a last interview with one of our partners and our HR

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