We help consumers shop smarter. Our ambition is to revolutionize the way people shop, empowering them to find what they need, make informed purchasing decisions, and save money.
Joko is a tech company founded in Paris. Our team of over 80 talents is international and spread across offices in Paris, Barcelona and New York, or working remotely.
As a certified B Corporation, we are committed to making a difference in the lives of the communities we serve, including the 4 million consumers already using Joko to save money every day at over 7,000 merchants.
Over the years, we have quickly expanded our value proposition to enable consumers to make smarter shopping decisions through many features: cash back, buy now and pay later, automatic coupons, price drop alerts, carbon footprint tracking, and more. Today, we are dedicating significant resources to developing an AI-powered assistant that helps users find the right product based on their criteria for price, quality, or environmental impact from the global e-commerce catalog.
After reaching profitability in our core market, we are now expanding internationally with a primary focus on the US.
It’s still day 1; come build the future of shopping with us!
This position is remote-friendly (France and Spain).
💫 Our Engineering teamsAs a Software Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to apply your skills across a wide range of cutting-edge technical challenges and impactful projects. Depending on your expertise and interests, you could contribute to one of the following key areas:
Tech: Collaborate with the Product team to innovate on Joko’s user-facing products and shape the future of the online shopping experience, taking full ownership from conception to deployment. You will tackle complex engineering challenges such as developing AI-powered shopping assistants or crafting scalable algorithms that are capable of extracting, structuring, and leveraging massive quantities of data from all e-commerce sites worldwide.
Operations: Support all teams at Joko by designing and implementing software solutions that enhance efficiency at scale. You will work on projects like building the customer support stack to solve our users’ problems, improving fraud detection mechanisms, or creating AI assistants to optimize team operations.
At Joko, we believe in ownership and versatility. You will take complete ownership of your projects, steering them from the initial blueprint to their deployment in production, ensuring excellence and innovation at every turn. We aim to assemble versatile teams of engineers, not confined to narrow specialties (e.g., mobile development, ML engineering, infrastructure, etc.). We seek individuals with broad technical skills, capable of applying their knowledge to tackle complex, multi-domain engineering challenges. As a Software Engineer, your responsibilities will include:
Software design & development: Translate product visions or operational needs into robust software architectures, implementing them across our stack to ensure an exceptional user experience.
Technical exploration & problem-solving: Dive into challenging technical problems, often involving new and undefined areas, using innovative approaches to develop practical solutions.
Deployment & impact monitoring: Take projects from development to deployment, collaborating with Product and Data teams to monitor their impact.
Technical leadership: Mentor junior engineers, review technical specs and code, and steer technical discussions.
Strategic collaboration: Work closely with the Product and Operations teams to align technical projects with company goals.
Process & tool enhancement: Continuously evaluate and improve team processes and tools to ensure maximum efficiency and effectiveness.
Education: You graduated from a top-tier engineering, computer science, or applied science program.
Problem solver: Strong analytical skills with a creative and pragmatic approach to solving complex problems.
Fast learner: Comfortable in any technical environment, quick to learn new programming languages, frameworks, or practices.
Mindset: Entrepreneurial spirit, eager to take on challenges, and enjoy getting hands-on with projects.
Programming skills: Proficiency in at least one programming language and the ability to write clean, efficient code following best practices.
Attention to detail: A keen eye for detail and a talent for spotting flaws.
Efficiency: Able to manage projects with multiple stakeholders, delivering on time while ensuring productivity.
Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of explaining complex ideas simply.
Languages: Fluent in English, both written and spoken. French is not required.
At Joko, we believe that flexibility and trust are essential. Our work environment reflects this through:
Flexible remote: If you live in Paris, you can choose to work from our office or from home with no constraints. If you live elsewhere, we can provide access to a coworking space.
Work from anywhere: Want to spend a month in Italy while working? Full-time employees can work from most countries in the world for up to 3 months per year → full-time only
On top of that, we offer plenty of perks (some for everyone, others only for full-time positions):
A budget for remote work equipment
A Swile card for meals (if you are based in France)
Frequent team events and in-person gatherings every quarter 🎉
Premium health insurance (Alan Blue, in France) → full-time only
A ClassPass subscription to stay in shape wherever you are → full-time only
…and much more — check the full list here!
Intro call: Quick screening with the Hiring Manager or a recruiter.
Step 1 – Team interview (45 min): Conversation with two Joko team members (could include the Hiring Manager, people from the team you’d join, or colleagues from other teams).
Step 2 – Role-specific assessments
For non-tech roles: Take-home case study followed by a 45 min debrief. We assess both your output and how you think in real time. The exercise will be relevant to the role (e.g. analysis, strategy, or process design).
For tech roles: Live technical interviews:
Coding interview + System design interview
For research internships, an additional round may involve analyzing and presenting a research paper
Step 3 – Founders interview (45 min): Conversation with two of our founders.
References: Up to five calls with former colleagues or managers.
☕ You may also be invited for coffee with team members to get a feel for our culture.
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What We Do
We help consumers shop smarter. Our ambition is to revolutionize the way people shop, empowering them to find what they need, make informed purchasing decisions, and save money.
Joko is a tech company founded in Paris. Our team is international and spread across offices in Paris, Barcelona and New York, or working remotely.
As a certified B Corporation, we are committed to making a difference in the lives of the communities we serve, including the 4 million consumers already using Joko to save money every day at over 7,000 merchants.
Come build the future of shopping with us!
For a full listing of our jobs, visit https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/joko.
