Location:
Paris (Hybrid)
Start Date:
ASAP
Languages:
Fluent French (required)
About The Product
Youll join a fast-growing consumer social app used by millions of teenagers across the US and UK. The platform enables safe, authentic 1:1 conversations and meaningful peer discovery positioned as an alternative to follower-driven social media models.
The engineering team (20 people) operates with high autonomy and ownership. The product is scaling rapidly, and the backend is entering a major migration phase to support future growth.
What You Will Do
Lead the migration of backend services from Node.js to Go
Design, rewrite, and maintain scalable distributed backend systems
Define and execute a smooth, progressive migration strategy
Collaborate with product \& engineering teams on architectural direction
Improve reliability, observability, and performance of high-traffic services
Integrate and maintain third-party services (analytics, moderation, cloud tools)
Contribute to the evolution of the backend to support rapid iteration
Share Go best practices and support internal adoption
Requirements
Must-have
5+ years of backend engineering experience
Strong hands-on skills in Node.js and Golang
Proven experience rewriting or migrating services at scale
Solid knowledge of distributed systems and high-traffic architectures
Comfortable with AWS or GCP
Fluent in French (required)
Product mindset; ability to challenge assumptions and propose solutions
Nice-to-have
Experience with consumer or social applications
DevOps experience (Terraform, CloudFormation, IaC)
Familiarity with cloud-native microservice environments
Why Join
Work on a fast-scaling consumer product with real impact
High ownership within a senior engineering team
Competitive compensation
Wellness activities onsite
Hybrid setup with remote days (Mon / Tue / Fri)
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