Back-end Engineer (Golang)

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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