Senior Backend Engineer, Dailymotion
Video streaming service
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Video streaming service
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
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
- Strong backend programming skills with deep knowledge of Python (asyncio) and SQL databases
- Proven experience designing scalable APIs and event-driven architectures (queues/messaging)
- Data-driven approach to decision-making with a strong interest in analytics
- Results-oriented mindset: you constantly find relevant shortcuts and pragmatic solutions
- Fluent in English + French mandatory
- 5-10 years of experience minimum
Desirable
- Experience in B2C startups where you've seen products grow from 0 to 1
- Interest in AI and ML applications in consumer products
- Side projects that show your passion for building and experimenting
- Experience working in fast-paced, cross-functional teams
- Familiarity with mobile-first architectures and constraints
What the job involves
- Join a dedicated product team operating in full startup mode, building the next breakthrough social platform. We're creating something that's never existed before – and we need you to make it happen
- As a Backend Engineer in our mobile team (3 iOS devs, 3 Android devs, 2 backend devs), you'll be at the heart of product innovation. Here, code is a means, not an end: what matters is the impact on our millions of users
- We're not looking for architects obsessed with technical debt or building the perfect stack. We're looking for builders who want to iterate, test, and ship features that users love. Your code will directly power experiments that reach real audiences, giving you immediate feedback on what works and what doesn't
- Iterate at high velocity: experiment, test with our audience, then consolidate what works speed and learning over perfection
- Ship features that create real user value, taking calculated risks and smart shortcuts to maximize business impact
- Build and scale backend services and APIs (REST/GraphQL) that power a world-class mobile experience
- Collaborate closely with iOS/Android, Product, and QA teams with a shared product ownership mindset
- Evolve the architecture (async, event-driven, messaging) pragmatically to support growth without over-engineering
- Drive performance, reliability, and observability with full ownership and proactivity
- Shape the product culture and push the entire team toward excellence
- You'll have the autonomy to make decisions, the freedom to experiment, and the responsibility to deliver results. This is not a role where you execute someone else's plan you'll be co-creating the product strategy
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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