Senior Front-End Engineer, Dailymotion
React
€65-75k
2+ days a week in office
Video streaming service
Posted today
Video streaming service
501-1000 employees
Posted today
€65-75k
2+ days a week in office
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 frontend development experience with production apps shipped at scale
- React & TypeScript: your everyday tools, not just words on a resume
- GraphQL and REST APIs: you know how to fetch, cache, and manage data client-side
- Strong fundamentals: HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, browser APIs, responsive design, web performance
- Solid grasp of modern frontend architecture: components, state management, routing
- Autonomous by default: you drive work forward without needing constant supervision
- English is mandatory: it's the team's daily working language. French is a plus
- Don't check every box? Apply anyway
Desirable
- Comfortable using AI tools (Copilot, ChatGPT, etc.) for prototyping, debugging, or documenting, while knowing their limits
- Familiar with web optimization: lazy loading, code splitting, bundle optimization
- Experience with modern CSS methodologies: CSS Modules, Styled Components, Tailwind, or equivalent
- Solid with Git, CI/CD, and modern dev workflows
- Background in a startup or product company where you had to move fast with limited resources
What the job involves
- Design, develop, and maintain the frontend applications and UIs powering Studio's core features
- Work across our stack, primarily React, TypeScript, GraphQL, and REST APIs, to build responsive and accessible web experiences
- Tackle complex technical challenges around video player integration, content management workflows, creator dashboards, and interactive UX
- Make pragmatic architectural decisions, balancing technical excellence with creator needs and business goals
- Write clear and thorough technical specs that enable smooth collaboration across engineering teams
- Be responsive and communicative: reply quickly, share timely updates, and keep stakeholders informed
- Take part actively in code reviews, giving constructive feedback and learning from others
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code that your teammates can build on
- Champion best practices across the board: testing, documentation, accessibility, performance, and operational excellence
Application process
- 1.HR Interview with Marvin (30 min): Get to know each other, discuss your motivations, and align on role expectations
- 2. Interview with Laurent, your future manager (45 min): Deep dive into the role requirements, assess your technical background and problem-solving approach, and challenge your skills through concrete scenarios
- 3. Technical Case Study (2x1 hour) : Your chance to dive into our real technical challenges, show how you approach problems, and see if your skills match our needs
- 4. Leadership Interview with N+2 (45mn) : Discuss long-term career goals, understand how this role fits into Dailymotion's broader strategy, and explore growth opportunities within the organization
- Welcome at Dailymotion 🎉
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-party data, contextual targeting, and low-latency delivery positions 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 bringing 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 remains 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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