Senior Python Engineer, Dailymotion
AI integration
€60-75k
3 days a week in office (Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris)
Video streaming service
Be an early applicant
Video streaming service
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
€60-75k
3 days a week in office (Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To build the next generation of media platforms designed to inspire millions of people to grow and share a diverse and inclusive vision of the world.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of backend development experience with systems already shipped to production at scale
- Python mastery: it's your go-to tool, your daily driver. Experience with PHP (or willingness to work on legacy PHP codebases)
- Solid backend fundamentals: APIs, databases, caching, queuing systems, distributed systems
- Modern backend architecture: distributed systems, asynchronous processing, event-driven architectures
- API design: you know the principles (REST, GraphQL, or similar)
- Cloud infrastructure: hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Containerization and orchestration: Docker and associated tools
- Git, CI/CD, and modern dev workflows: you're comfortable with all of it
- Autonomy: you're used to working independently and delivering without constant supervision
- English is mandatory: it's the team's daily working language. French is a plus
Desirable
- You're comfortable with AI tools (Copilot, ChatGPT, etc.) for prototyping, debugging, testing, or documenting while knowing their limitations
- You've worked in a startup or production company where you had to figure things out with limited resources
- You can write clear, comprehensive technical specs that are actually useful for other teams
- You're highly responsive in your communications: your teammates can count on quick answers and regular updates
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our AI Integration team within our Studio
- This team is dedicated to integrating AI-powered workflows with Mojo into Studio. You'll be working as a backend developer in an AI-first environment, building the infrastructure that brings intelligent features to content creators
- By joining this team, you'll collaborate with product, design, data, and engineering teams on features that directly impact how creators upload, manage, monetize, and grow their content on Dailymotion
- Your work will empower creators from independent artists to major media companies to reach their audiences and build successful channels
- Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs that power AI-driven features across Dailymotion
- Build robust Python applications that integrate with AI models and services in production environments
- Work with our primarily Python stack alongside legacy PHP systems in both monolithic and microservice architectures
- Solve complex technical challenges around video processing, content management, creator workflows, and platform scalability
- Make pragmatic architectural decisions, balancing technical excellence, creator needs, and business objectives
- Produce clear and comprehensive technical specifications that facilitate collaboration across engineering teams
- Be highly responsive in your communications respond quickly to questions, provide regular updates, and keep stakeholders informed
- Actively participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback and learning from others
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code that others can understand and evolve
- Champion engineering best practices: testing, documentation, observability, and operational excellence
Application process
- First call (30 min) with the Talent Acquisition team: An initial conversation to get to know each other, introduce you to Dailymotion, understand your background and expectations, and answer your first questions
- Video call (45 min) with your future manager: An in-depth exchange to talk concretely about the role, your day-to-day, your skills, and see how you could thrive within the team
- Two technical interviews (1h each): Your chance to dive into our real technical challenges, show how you approach problems, and see if your skills match our needs
- Meet the team: Because great teams are built together. An informal moment to meet your future colleagues and get a feel for the daily vibe
Our take
It's hard to talk about Dailymotion without mentioning YouTube, but the comparison matters less than it used to. With hundreds of millions of monthly users and a strong presence in Europe, Dailymotion has room to grow without chasing YouTube. Instead, it's leaned into a more differentiated model, one that blends distribution, monetisation, and now creation, offering an alternative in a market crowded with global giants.
This strategy is most visible in Ray, Dailymotion's new in-house ad engine. Ray delivers more precise and more transparent ad performance, giving advertisers a credible option outside walled-garden ecosystems. Its ability to integrate first-part data, contextual targeting, and low-latency delivery puts Dailymotion as not just a video platform, but a rising ad-tech contender at a moment when programmatic video spend keeps accelerating.
Alongside this, the company recently acquired Mojo, further strengthening its shift. With more than 50M downloads, Mojo adds AI-powered creation tools that let users produce, edit, and customize content quickly. Meaning Dailymotion can now support the full creator workflow, helping it attract even more talent and give brands and publishers faster ways to produce personalized videos.
It's not stopping there though, as it's also expanding its reach through Audience Path, a new AI-driven audience intelligence unit built on Ray, and a partnership with Dotscreen brining Dailymotion Pro to Apple TV, Android TV, Samsung, and LG devices. These moves show a company focused not on chasing YouTube, but on building a European alternative defined by strong tech and creator empowerment. The rise of short-form platforms still remain a challenge, but these recent moves sure suggest Dailymotion is shaping a more integrated future for its users.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2009
$25m
SERIES C
Aug 2007
$34m
SERIES B
Total funding: $68.5m
Company HQ
Plaine-Monceau, Paris, France
Leadership
Guillaume Clement
(CEO)Guillaume has been at Dailymotion since 2013, initially joining the team as a Program Director. Since then, he has held a number of roles and became CEO in 2024.
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