Senior Backend Engineer, Dailymotion
2 days a week in office (Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris)
Video streaming service
Job no longer available
Video streaming service
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
2 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
- Professional English proficiency is mandatory for this role
- Strong experience as a backend software engineer working on production-grade systems
- Proven expertise in Golang and building high-performance, concurrent backend services
- Solid understanding of backend system design and full application lifecycle management (design, development, testing, deployment, maintenance, refactoring, and bug fixing)
- Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs (and/or gRPC) with proper versioning and documentation
- Strong knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases, data modeling, and query optimization
- Ability to deliver high-quality, well-tested, maintainable code using industry best practices
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to independently drive solutions from concept to production
Desirable
- Deep understanding of backend and distributed systems fundamentals: concurrency, networking, HTTP, authentication/authorization, caching, messaging, and fault tolerance
- Experience with microservices architectures and service-to-service communication
- Strong experience with automated testing strategies (unit, integration, and contract testing)
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Hands-on experience with production monitoring, logging, and debugging tools
- Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies, code reviews, and collaborative engineering practices
- Knowledge of security best practices for backend systems (data protection, authentication flows, secrets management)
- Experience using AI-powered development tools (e.g., ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Claude) for coding assistance, debugging, refactoring, test generation, and improving developer productivity
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Backend Developer to join our AdTech team and help build our next-generation AI-powered advertising platform. You’ll work alongside Product, Design, Data, and Engineering to design and deliver the backend services and APIs that power our advertising solutions, with strong standards for scalability, performance, and reliability
- Lead the design, development, and evolution of complex, scalable backend systems and services
- Architect and build reusable, maintainable backend codebases, shared services, and internal libraries
- Translate product and business requirements into technical backend designs and implementation plans
- Design and maintain robust APIs, data models, and service integrations
- Establish and enforce best practices for code quality, testing, documentation, performance, and reliability
- Own backend features end-to-end: estimation, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement
- Mentor and support mid-level and junior engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge sharing
- Collaborate closely with Product, Frontend, QA, DevOps, Data, and Infrastructure teams to align on goals, scope, and delivery
- Contribute to technical decision-making, architecture discussions, and long-term platform and scalability strategy
Application process
- Start Date: ASAP
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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