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

Job Title

As part of its strategic platform evolution, Dailymotion is strengthening its Core Platform team.

Job Description

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.

You'll 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, you'll ensure our platform scales seamlessly while empowering developers across the organization with the tools and foundations they need to succeed.

You'll 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, aio 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

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 :

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