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

Dailymotion is more than a video app, it's a visual conversation in motion, based on a unique algorithm designed to broaden users' horizons. Dailymotion brings nuance to the debates that animate young people and puts listening, discovery, and kindness back at the heart of interactions to help build a better and safer Internet.

Dailymotion is also "Dailymotion Pro", a video hosting and broadcasting solution for professionals in all sectors; and "Dailymotion Advertising", a powerful, proprietary video advertising platform, offering a high-quality, secure environment for brands.

Our team is made up of 400 people in France, New York, and Singapore, all united by the same ambition: to visibly shake up the global video platform ecosystem.

What brings us together?

At Dailymotion, our team of talented individuals from over 40 nationalities embraces four core values every day:

• Opening perspectives - We are building bridges between different sides of the spectrum. We believe in freedom of speech, inclusivity, and a mix of cultures.

• Building a safer world - Empathy is the key to understanding alterity. Caring for each other is our driver to creating a safe community.

• Making bold moves - We are ambitious challengers. We are making against-the-flow choices to make visible changes in the platform's ecosystem

• Creating meaning - We spark joy and curiosity, we feel good about what we do and we want everyone else to feel the same fulfillment

• 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 

​​​​​​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. 

Dailymotion is proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. We value inclusion and we want you to help us thrive for a more diverse community.
All our job offers are open to people with disabilities or impairments, and we actively encourage everyone to apply. If you have any accessibility needs or require any accommodations for the hiring process, please let us know in advance so that we can make any necessary arrangements.

• Location: Issy-les-Moulineaux or Valbonne, possible full remote

• Start Date: ASAP

• Contract Type: Permanent - CDI

🔍Want to learn more about us:

• Dailymotion.com

• New-York office - BuiltIn

• Offices in France - Welcome to the Jungle

• Our articles  

For the France offices :

🏡Hybrid Work Framework, depending especially on the needs of your position, ability to work 3 months abroad

💰 Saving Plan Canal +

🍼  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