Senior Software Engineer – High Scale Distributed Systems
France
Full Time
3 weeks ago
No Sponsorship
Key skills
AWSCloudDockerJavaScriptKafkaMicroservicesMySQLNode.jsPostgresRedisPub/SubPostgreSQLCachingLoad BalancingCI/CD
About this role
Role Overview
- Design and evolve the architecture of distributed backend systems
- Develop highly available and scalable microservices
- Build and maintain APIs and data models
- Work on real-time event-driven systems with high throughput requirements
- Implement unit, integration, and end-to-end testing
- Participate in code reviews and technical discussions
- Deploy and maintain services in AWS environments
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize platform performance
- Contribute to architecture and technical documentation
- Collaborate with Frontend, Data, Infrastructure, Security, and Product teams
Requirements
- Significant experience in developing back-end services on a high-traffic platform (10K+ req/s)
- Significant experience with load balancing, high availability, scaling, caching, database, and storage issues
- Proficiency in event-driven distributed architectures
- Proficiency in Redis or Kafka (data structures, pub/sub, streams, pipelines)
- Proficiency in relational databases (MySQL or PostgreSQL), modeling, optimization, transactions, and locks
- Knowledge of JavaScript and the Node.js ecosystem is desirable (microservices rely on Node.js)
- Knowledge of the cloud environment
- DevOps culture (CI/CD, Docker, Observability)
- Mandatory academic background from CPGE scientifiques (Maths Sup / Maths Spé)
Tech Stack
- AWS
- Cloud
- Docker
- JavaScript
- Kafka
- Microservices
- MySQL
- Node.js
- Postgres
- Redis
Benefits
- Permanent full-time contract (CDI)
- 4-day work week
- Profit-sharing and participation programs
- Company restaurant
- On-site gym facilities
- Long-term growth opportunities
- Modern engineering culture focused on scalability and innovation