Senior Backend Engineer (France or Madrid)

Build the foundation of Hivebrite’s AI-powered, API-first platform — and help scale communities driving change worldwide

Hivebrite is an all-in-one community management and engagement platform. Our mission is to provide organizations with the tools they need to create impactful communities.

Our SaaS platform serves customers across a variety of industries including higher education, non-profit, and corporate. Founded in 2015, today we count more than 900 customers worldwide - including Boeing, the Obama Foundation, the National Academy of Sciences, the University of Notre Dame, the U.S. Naval Academy, the British Heart Foundation, the Imperial College London, the P&G Alumni France, and Le Wagon Alumni.

We employ over 170 people across our entities in Paris, New York, the UK, and Sydney, and 30+ nationalities are represented in our team!

At Hivebrite, we believe in the importance of balancing your work commitments and personal life. You’re able to have a real impact on meaningful communities while prioritizing your personal life and goals. Our work policy encourages a healthy work-life harmony with a flexible schedule.We also have many initiatives to keep our global team connected, offering opportunities to meet and socialize with team members virtually and in-person!

For these reasons, we were awarded Best Hybrid Place to Work by BuiltIn in the US and Choose My Company and HappyIndex at Work in France last year!
Find out everything about us here!

Jump aboard, and join the hive!

The Opportunity

Hivebrite is entering an exciting new chapter. We’re evolving our platform to meet growing customer demands with a modern, scalable, and intelligent foundation.
But this isn't just about tech — Hivebrite powers thousands of communities making a difference in the world. From sustainability and education to diversity and social innovation, our platform enables meaningful connection and collective impact. Here’s what’s ahead:

• Decoupling our monolith into a modular, service-based architecture

• Replatforming to API-first , enabling richer integrations and more flexibility

• Infusing AI throughout — from product features (recommendations, smart workflows) to internal tooling (DevEx, CI/CD, Copilot, Cursor, Bolt)

• Raising the bar on performance, observability, and scalability to support a fast-growing, global user base

This is a pivotal time to join. As a Senior Backend Engineer , you'll be instrumental in driving this transformation.

Our Impact

Hivebrite isn’t just another SaaS platform — we power over 1,000 communities worldwide working toward real change.
Our customers include
As a Senior Engineer, your work will directly support these communities by making their digital spaces faster, smarter, and more impactful.

Your Role

You’ll work across product and platform initiatives to:

• Design and build scalable backend services using Ruby, Python, Node.js/TypeScript, or Golang

• Lead the decomposition of our monolith into modular, service-oriented components

• Drive performance and reliability improvements , leveraging async queues, caching strategies, and data modeling

• Implement AI-powered features (personalization, automation, recommendations) in collaboration with Product and Data teams

• Elevate our internal developer experience , integrating AI tooling (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor) and streamlining CI/CD workflows

• Engineer robust integrations with third-party APIs, webhooks, and event-driven systems

• Champion technical excellence across testing, observability, and system design

• Shape the technical vision , actively contributing to architecture reviews and long-term platform strategy

About You

We’re looking for someone who thrives in fast-moving environments and has a strong engineering backbone:

• Proficient in on of these stacks Ruby, Python , Node.js/TypeScript, Golang

• Track record of building high-scale backend systems (millions of users, high throughput, distributed architecture)

• Experience with service extraction and API-first designs

• Solid grasp of distributed systems , async processing, observability, and modern caching strategies

• Interest or hands-on experience with AI/ML applications in product or engineering contexts

• Familiar with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP), and modern DevOps tooling

• Collaborative, thoughtful communicator who enjoys leading cross-functional technical efforts

• Fluent in English (written and spoken)

Why Join Hivebrite?

• Help scale organizations advancing sustainability, education, diversity & inclusion, public health , and more.

• Shape the core architecture of a fast-growing SaaS platform

• Work on cutting-edge AI-powered features with real-world impact

• Be part of a product-first, tech-driven company with sustainable growth

• Join a diverse, remote-friendly engineering team that values impact and quality over hours worked

• Benefit from modern engineering practices & tooling (CI/CD, observability, AI-assisted development)

• Work with the best AI tools : Cursor, Claude Code, Gemini

Hivebrite's perks & benefits

Flexibility & Time Off

• Remote-friendly with flexible policy

• Between 1 and 12 weeks of Nomad per year

• Around 2 weeks of RTT

• Extra leaves for family time (sick kids, quality days, special situations)

• 2 months paid leave for second caregivers

Well-being & Meaning

• Moka Care mental health support (sessions, group workshops)

• 1 paid volunteer day

• Your birthday off

• Monthly team events & yearly department offsites

Office & Culture

• Paris HQ with rooftop, pool, gym & international vibe

• Engineering squads meet twice a month

• Regular team gatherings & community moments

Growth & Development

• Internal mobility, training & tailored career support

• Discover our Employee Journey + team stories on Instagram

Competitive Package

• Enhanced health coverage with Alan (vision, dental, alt. care)

• Swile: lunch vouchers + CSE perks

• Navigo 100% reimbursed (Paris)

• Latest Apple gear + €200 remote setup budget

• Salary aligned with market standards

Recruitment Process

• Meet Maxime, our HR Manager, for a first video-call to better understand your career plan and answer any of your questions (60 mins).

• A technical homework, to see if we can match on this side of the job

• Meet Hugues, one of our Lead Software Engineer, to dive deeper into the position

• Meet 2 Senior Backend Engineers to discuss around a technical architecture review exercise (60 mins).

• Meet Tarek, our CPTO, to speak about your long-term involvement with Hivebrite (60 mins).

If you want to know everything you need about Hivebrite, check out our Welcome To The Jungle page : here!