Senior Backend Engineer (Python)

Job Description

We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our AI Integration team. This team is dedicated to integrating AI-powered workflows within our social app. You'll be working as a backend developer in an AI-first environment, building the infrastructure that brings intelligent features to content creators.

By joining this team, you'll collaborate with product, design, data, and engineering teams on features that directly impact how creators upload, manage, monetize, and grow their content on Dailymotion. Your work will empower creators, from independent artists to major media companies, to reach their audiences and build successful channels.

Location: Paris, 3 days remote per week

What you'll do

Build & Architect

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs that power AI-driven features across Dailymotion
• Build robust Python applications that integrate with AI models and services in production environments
• Work with our primarily Python stack alongside legacy PHP systems in both monolithic and microservice architectures
• Solve complex technical challenges around video processing, content management, creator workflows, and platform scalability
• Make pragmatic architectural decisions, balancing technical excellence, creator needs, and business objectives

Collaborate & Communicate

• Produce clear and comprehensive technical specifications that facilitate collaboration across engineering teams
• Be highly responsive in your communications: respond quickly to questions, provide regular updates, and keep stakeholders informed

Contribute to Engineering Culture

• Actively participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback and learning from others
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code that others can understand and evolve
• Champion engineering best practices: testing, documentation, observability, and operational excellence

Qualifications

What we're looking for

• 5+ years of backend development experience with systems already shipped to production at scale
• Python mastery: it's your go-to language, your daily driver. Experience with PHP (or willingness to work on legacy PHP codebases)
• Solid backend fundamentals: APIs, databases, caching, queuing systems, distributed systems
• Modern backend architecture: distributed systems, asynchronous processing, event-driven architectures
• API design: you know the principles, whether REST, GraphQL, or similar
• Cloud infrastructure: hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Containerization and orchestration: Docker and associated tools
• Git, CI/CD, and modern dev workflows: you're comfortable with all of it
• Autonomy: you're used to working independently and delivering without constant supervision

English is mandatory: it's the team's daily working language. French is a plus.

Nice to haves

• You're comfortable with AI tools (Copilot, ChatGPT, etc.) for prototyping, debugging, testing, or documenting, while knowing their limitations
• You've worked in a startup or production company where you had to figure things out with limited resources

What will really make the difference

You thrive in ambiguity, love diving into unfamiliar code, and navigate complex systems even when documentation is sparse (or non-existent). You prefer autonomy over micromanagement, transform messy problems into clean solutions, and always keep creators' needs top of mind.

Additional Information

Don't check every box? Apply anyway.

We're looking for the right person to join the team, not just a perfect resume. Dailymotion is an equal opportunity employer. All positions are open to people with disabilities.

Interview process

1.HR Interview with Marvin (30 min): Get to know each other, discuss your motivations, and align on role expectations

2. Interview with Laurent, your future manager (45 min): Deep dive into the role requirements, assess your technical background and problem-solving approach, and challenge your skills through concrete scenarios

3. Technical Case Study (2x1 hour) : Your chance to dive into our real technical challenges, show how you approach problems, and see if your skills match our needs.

4. Leadership Interview with N+2 (45mn) : Discuss long-term career goals, understand how this role fits into Dailymotion's broader strategy, and explore growth opportunities within the organization

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