Senior backend engineer – Creator platform (All Genders)

Were looking for an exceptional Senior Backend Engineer to join our Creator Platform team within Studio. The Creator Platform is a critical part of our Studio organization focused on building and maintaining the tools and services that help creators succeed across the entire Dailymotion ecosystem. 

As a member of this team youll work alongside product design data and other engineers on features that directly impact how creators upload manage monetize and grow their content on Dailymotion. Your work will empower creatorsfrom independent artists to major media companiesto reach their audiences and build successful channels. 

This role is ideal for engineers who thrive in ambiguity love diving into uncharted territory and can navigate complex systems with limited documentation. If youre energized by exploration prefer autonomy over hand-holding and can turn messy problems into elegant solutionsall while keeping creators needs at the center of your workwe want to hear from you. 

What youll do 

• Design build and maintain backend services and APIs that power creator-facing features across Dailymotion 
• Work across our technology stackprimarily Python with legacy PHP systemsin both monolithic and microservices architectures 
• Tackle complex technical challenges in video processing content management creator workflows and platform scalability 
• Make pragmatic architectural decisions balancing technical excellence with creator needs and business objectives 
• Produce clear comprehensive technical specifications that enable seamless collaboration across multiple engineering teams 
• Be highly responsive in your communicationsanswer questions promptly provide timely updates and keep stakeholders informed 
• Participate actively in code reviews providing constructive feedback and learning from others 
• Write clean maintainable well-tested code that others can understand and build upon 
• Champion engineering best practices including testing documentation observability and operational excellence

Qualifications :

What were looking for 

• 5 years of backend engineering experience with a proven track record of shipping production systems at scale 
• Strong proficiency in Python. Experience with PHP (or willingness to work with legacy PHP codebases) 
• Comfort leveraging AI-assisted workflows for prototyping debugging testing or documentation with a clear understanding of their limitations competitive advantage 
• Deep understanding of backend fundamentals: APIs databases caching queuing systems distributed systems 
• Familiarity with distributed systems concepts async processing and event-driven architectures 
• Understanding of API design principles (REST GraphQL or similar) 
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS GCP or Azure) 
• Knowledge of containerization (Docker) and orchestration tools 
• Comfortable with version control (Git) CI/CD pipelines and modern development workflows 
• Track record of working independently and delivering results with minimal supervision 
• Experience at a product company or startup where youve had to figure things out with limited resources 

Key Differentiators 

• Comfort with Ambiguity: You dont freeze when requirements are unclearyou ask clarifying questions and move forward with confidence despite uncertainty 
• Exploratory Mindset: Youre genuinely curious love digging into unfamiliar codebases and see investigation as part of the fun rather than a chore 
• Autonomy & Initiative: You dont wait to be told what to doyou identify problems propose solutions and execute without constant check-ins 
• Excellent Written Communication: You can write technical specs that are clear comprehensive and useful to other teams 
• Responsiveness: Youre reliable in your communicationsteammates can count on timely responses and updates from you 
• Ownership Mentality: You treat the code and systems like theyre yoursyou care deeply about quality reliability and the experience of those who come after you 

Additional Information :

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• Localisation: Issy-les-Moulineaux OR Valbonne

• Start Date: ASAP

• Contract Type: CDI

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Remote Work :

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Employment Type :

Full-time