Sr Back-End Engineer, Python API (All Genders)

As part of its strategic platform evolution Dailymotion is strengthening its Core Platform team. You will be responsible for building and maintaining the foundational backend infrastructure that powers our entire product ecosystem. Your mission is to create robust scalable foundations that enable our Product engineering teams to deliver features autonomously and efficiently.

Youll architect and maintain critical platform components including APIs authentication systems monitoring infrastructure logging frameworks and establish engineering guidelines and best practices. Working closely with Product teams DevOps and QA youll ensure our platform scales seamlessly while empowering developers across the organization with the tools and foundations they need to succeed.

Youll be joining our strategic transformation program to modernize our platform from monolithic to cloud-native microservices architecture working on high-scale systems serving millions of users worldwide.

Key Responsibilities

Design and build geo-distributed Backend systems using microservices architecture

Design and build API-centric systems using REST GraphQL and OpenAPI standards

Design and build distributed authentication and authorization systems

Design and build queueing and event-driven systems

Participate in legacy system modernization and incremental migration strategies

Collaborate on Partner API design with backward compatibility requirements

Proactivity on evolutions and improvements

Technologies

Languages : Python PHP

Messaging : RabbitMQ Celery NSQ

Databases : Elasticsearch MySQL MongoDB

APIs : GraphQL aioHTTP OpenAPI FastAPI

Authentication : OAuth JWT RBAC systems

Infrastructure : Docker Kubernetes Jenkins

Security & Config : Vault

Observability : Datadog distributed tracing tools

Qualifications : Required

Strong programming capabilities in Python and PHP

Experience with continuous integration continuous deployment testing and automation tools (Jenkins etc.) and Docker

Strong concept of code quality (complexity styling unit testing functional testing) and knowledge in TDD

Strong code review capabilities and ability to identify errors and improvements

Microservices architecture knowledge and experience

Understanding of API design patterns and RESTful services

Experience with authentication / authorization systems (OAuth JWT preferred)

Preferred

Experience with large-scale system migration or modernization projects

Knowledge of API Gateway patterns and distributed system design

Understanding of event-driven architecture and messaging patterns

Experience with observability and monitoring in distributed systems

Knowledge of database migration strategies and data modeling

Experience with Partner / External API design and versioning strategies

Soft Skills

Outstanding organizational skills and ability to juggle multiple tasks

Demonstrated expertise in problem-solving and technical innovation

Strong communication skills - able to work effectively with technical and non-technical teammates

Strong level of written / verbal English

If you love clean architecture DDD event-driven architecture API design and system modernization challenges we need to meet!

At Dailymotion we empower candidates to take action. If this job sounds like a great opportunity for you be confident in your skills we are always happy to meet you! If needed we can accommodate our recruitment process for your special abilities.

Additional Information :

Location : ssy Les Moulineaux possible Remote

Start Date : depending on your availabilities

Contract Type : Permanent

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Paternity leave or Coparental leave extended

Living Employee Culture (Events / Trainings / Parties / All hands)

Career development support (training / internal mobility / compensation cycle / 360 feedback review )

High-end Health Insurance and Personal Services Vouchers (CESU)

Paid Time off RTT and Saving time plan (CET)

Meal Vouchers Public Transport and Bike refund

European Economic and Social Committee (sport membership / cinemas vouchers / gift vouchers / discount)

Fitness Subscription thanks to our partnership with Gymlib

Remote Work : Yes

Employment Type : Full-time

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Department / Functional Area : Operations

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1