Head of Architecture, PlayPlay
3+ days a week in office
Online video creation tool for businesses
Be an early applicant
Online video creation tool for businesses
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
3+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To strengthen the bond between organizations and their key audiences through video — internally and externally.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years of software engineering with 3+ years in architectural leadership
- Experience designing scalable, cloud-native architectures for SaaS products
- Strong technical background in modern web technologies, microservices, and distributed systems
- Track record of mentoring senior engineers and implementing effective governance
- Excellent communication skills for varied audiences (both in French & English)
- Deep understanding of cloud architecture (preferably GCP)
- Strong knowledge of API design and service-oriented architectures
- Understanding of modern frontend architectures and data systems
- Familiarity with security principles for enterprise applications
- Experience with video processing and content delivery networks - BONUS
- You've led architectural transformations in fast-growing organizations
- You've implemented successful technical governance models in agile environments
- You're passionate about developer experience and platform engineering
- You've published or presented on architectural topics in professional forums
- You have experience with both B2B SaaS and enterprise software architectures
- You have experience scaling media/video processing platforms (BONUS)
- You have experience with AI/ML architecture patterns and implementation (BONUS)
What the job involves
- Reporting to the VP of Engineering, you'll lead 6-8 senior/staff engineers focused on core platform capabilities, define our architectural vision, and chair the Architecture Committee to ensure technical excellence across the organization
- Define and evangelize PlayPlay's architectural vision, principles, and technical strategy
- Lead the Architecture Committee and establish our ADR process
- Create a technical roadmap balancing innovation, scalability, and technical debt
- Design scalable systems supporting our video creation and delivery capabilities
- Ensure our architecture supports enterprise-grade security, performance, and reliability
- Lead a high-performing transversal engineering team
- Mentor and develop architectural thinking across the engineering organization
- Partner with Product, Security, and Infrastructure teams on strategic initiatives
- Effectively communicate complex technical concepts to all stakeholders
- Represent architecture in leadership forums and strategic planning
- Lead development of core platform services that accelerate product development
- Guide the evolution of our frontend, backend, and data architectures
- Champion software quality practices and performance optimization
- Lead architectural reviews for complex technical challenges
- Evaluate emerging technologies for potential adoption
Application process
- Step 1: Video interview with a recruiter (30 minutes)
- Step 2: Video interview with your future manager (45 minutes to 1 hour)
- Step 3: Practical case study via video call with two subject-matter experts (1 hour to 1 hour 30)
- Step 4: In-person interview at our office with PlayPlayers (1 hour)
- Step 5: Final video interview with your future N+2 manager (30 minutes to 1 hour)
Our take
Online videos are invaluable to the digital marketing campaigns of businesses, and this relies on content creation from video editing experts. However, hiring such staff can be expensive and work can be slow, showing a gap in the market for video creation tools that require no expertise in video editing that can rapidly turn around content.
PlayPlay provides an online video creation tool for businesses, providing an end-to-end toolkit of drag-and-drop interfaces, stock video libraries, layout templates, automatic subtitling, and other automated editing suggestions. The platform also allows businesses to integrate their branding elements directly into every video created, ensuring each video is customized without the need for manual branding every time.
Whilst video editing software such as Adobe Premier Pro dominates the way content creators create videos for businesses, these tools require expertise and experience, and PlayPlay recognized that this results in large expenditure. Through its accessible, end-to-end, and user-friendly approach, the company claims that its video editing tool can help businesses create branded videos faster at a larger scale without expensive staffing requirements.
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Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jan 2022
$53m
SERIES B
Apr 2020
$11.3m
SERIES A
Total funding: $66m
Company HQ
Bonne-Nouvelle, Paris, France
Leadership
Thibaut Machet
(Founder & CEO)Experience as Founder of Izi-Pass.com. Social Media Manager of Eurosport from 2010 to 2016.
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