Senior Python Developer, Dailymotion
Creator Platform
€60-75k
3 days a week in office (92130 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 (92130 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 shipping production systems at scale
- Python mastery: it's your daily tool. 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, async processing, event-driven architectures
- API design expertise: REST, GraphQL, or similar
- Cloud infrastructure: hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Containerization and orchestration: Docker and related tools
- Git, CI/CD, and modern dev workflows: you're comfortable with all of it
- Autonomy: you're used to working independently and shipping without constant supervision
- English is mandatory: it's the team's daily working language. French is a plus
Desirable
- Comfortable using AI tools (Copilot, ChatGPT, etc.) to prototype, debug, test, or document while understanding their limitations
- Startup or production company experience where you had to make do with limited resources
- Skilled at writing clear, comprehensive technical specs that actually help other teams
- Highly responsive communicator: teammates can count on quick replies and updates
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Creator Platform team within our Studio. At Dailymotion, we believe every creator deserves world-class tools to succeed
- Our Creator Platform is the engine that empowers thousands of creators (from independent artists to major media companies) to share their content with audiences worldwide
- This team is at the heart of our Studio organization: we design and develop the tools and services that enable creators to succeed across the Dailymotion ecosystem
- Join our Creator Platform team, and you'll build products with direct, measurable impact: every feature you ship helps creators upload more easily, monetize better, and grow their audience
- You'll collaborate with product, design, data, and engineering teams on features that directly impact how creators manage their content on Dailymotion
- Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs that power creator features on Dailymotion
- 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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