Software Engineer (senior/staff level)

Joko Software Engineer Opportunity

At Joko, we help consumers shop smarter. Our mission is to revolutionize shopping, empowering people to find what they need, make informed decisions, and save money.

Founded in Paris, Joko is a tech company with over 90 talents across Paris, Barcelona, and New York (and beyond). More than 6 million users already save money every day at 10,000+ merchants with Joko.

From cashback and automatic coupons to price alerts and carbon tracking, we keep expanding our products to make shopping smarter. We're now building an AI-powered shopping assistant to help users find the best products by price, quality, and impact.

Having reached profitability in our core market, we're now scaling globally, with a strong 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 Teams

As 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:

1. 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.

2. 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.

What You Will Do

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: Set technical direction, own architecture decisions on complex systems, mentor engineers across the team, and drive the hardest technical discussions to a resolution.

• 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.

Who We're Looking For

We're looking for talented engineers who combine technical excellence with curiosity, ownership, and a product-driven mindset. You might fit perfectly if you recognize yourself in the following:

• Experience: You have 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, including time spent owning complex, ambitious projects end-to-end. You've operated at a senior or staff level, taking responsibility for technical direction and not just execution.

• Track record: You've demonstrated high potential through one or more of the following:

  • Strong experience or growth in a top-tier company or project;

  • A strong entrepreneurial or open-source background;

  • Speaking at conferences, organizing meetups, or contributing to tech communities.

• Builder's mindset: You think in terms of impact and see technology as a means to create real value for users.

• Full-stack spirit: You're not limited by a specific layer or language. You care about solving problems end-to-end.

• Fast learner: You're quick to pick up new technologies, frameworks, or practices, and you're comfortable in fast-changing environments.

• Problem solver: You have strong analytical skills and enjoy tackling complex challenges with a creative yet pragmatic approach.

• Communication: You can explain complex ideas simply, structure your thoughts clearly, and listen actively.

• Team player: You're humble, open to feedback, and eager to help others grow as much as you grow yourself.

• Drive & ownership: You take initiative, hold yourself accountable, and aim for excellence in everything you do.

• Languages: You're fluent in English, both written and spoken. French is not required.

Our Perks

(Some of the benefits listed below are available to full-time positions only)

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 and a coworking budget.

• Work from anywhere: Want to spend a month in Italy while working? You can work from most countries in the world for up to 3 months per year.

On top of that, we offer plenty of perks:

• Top-market compensation

• Equity for everyone with the chance to own a piece of what you build

• Half-day each week dedicated to leveling up with AI by exploring new tools, iterating hard, and sharpening your skills

• Yearly offsite in amazing locations and budget for team-building events & monthly in-person gatherings

• Contribution to your ClassPass subscription

• 8-week leave paid 100% for the second parent

• …and much more, check the full list here!

Our Hiring Process

1. Intro call: Quick screening with the Hiring Manager or the Talent team.

2. 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).

3. Step 2 – Role-specific assessments

   • For non-tech roles: Take-home case study followed by a 45 min interview. 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