Backend Engineer (Go)

Prelude; Paris; Hybride; EUR 90 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

BSPCEs

3 days in-office in central Paris

2 days WFH

Health insurance via Alan

Urban Sports Club gym membership

Swile meal vouchers

Free snacks and drinks in the office

Annual offsite

Résumé du poste

Prelude is redefining how companies authenticate and onboard users, offering scalable, cost-efficient OTP solutions across channels. You will design and build large-scale distributed systems in Go, with a modern full-stack frontend using Next.js on Vercel, and work on the Prelude API to improve usability and performance.

You will interact with clients daily, contribute to fraud prevention at scale, and participate in on-call rotations to ensure reliability.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and engineering large-scale systems.
• Strong Go coding skills; Rust/TypeScript a plus.
• Fluent/professional English for an international team.
• Product-led mindset, focused on impact and outcomes.

Responsabilités

• Build and scale a distributed system using Go, DynamoDB, SQS, Redshift and Lambdas.
• Develop a snappy full-stack app using Next.js on Vercel and gRPC.
• Advance Prelude API toward industry-leading usability and performance.
• Ensure services are scalable, reliable, and performant.
• Deploy and scale the fraud prevention model for large customers.
• Create internal tools to improve developer efficiency.
• Collaborate with clients daily and participate in on-call rotations.

Connaissances

Go

Rust

TypeScript

System design

Distributed systems

Outils

DynamoDB

SQS

Redshift

Lambdas

Next.js

Vercel

gRPC

Description du poste

About Prelude

Prelude is redefining how companies authenticate and onboard users - turning what's traditionally a cost center into a growth lever.

Our flagship product lets businesses send OTP codes with the best price-to-conversion ratio on the market, dynamically selecting the most effective channel in real time (optimized SMS, WhatsApp, and more) while actively blocking spam and fraud that legacy providers miss.

Founded in 2022 by former Zenly team members who lived the pain of broken SMS authentication firsthand, we're already serving fast-growing companies across Europe and are expanding into the US.

But authentication is only the starting point - we're building the platform for trust at scale, with an ambitious roadmap of market-defining products ahead.

Why join us

Today, we're a team of 60 and growing, based in Paris, building products that power secure and high-performance user onboarding for companies across the world. We believe small, highly skilled teams outperform large, fragmented organizations, and we are intentional about staying focused on impact, quality, and speed.

We operate with a flat org structure and value in-person collaboration, which helps ideas move faster, decisions stay grounded, and teams take full ownership of what they build.

Our values

• Care We care deeply about our customers, our teammates, and the quality and reliability of what we ship.

• Bias for Action We move fast, test in the real world, and iterate quickly rather than over-optimizing in theory.

• Ownership We take responsibility end to end, from identifying problems to delivering outcomes and learning from results.

What will you be doing?

• Building and scaling a distributed system using Go, DynamoDB, SQS, Redshift and Lambdas

• Building a snappy full-stack app using cutting-edge tech (including Next on Vercel, gRPC)

• Working on the next version of Prelude API, which we strive to be industry-leading in terms of usability, performance and functionality

• Ensuring that our services are scalable, extensible, reliable, and performant

• Helping deploy and scale our fraud prevention model to hundreds of large customers

• Developing and maintaining internal tools to improve developer efficiency

• Interacting with clients on a daily basis to assist them and build features around their needs

• Participating in on-call rotations to guarantee the stability and reliability of our APIs

What are we looking for?

• Experience designing and engineering large-scale systems

• Strong coding skills in Go - any experience with Rust, TypeScript or similar is a huge plus

• A preference for simplicity vs complexity, with intuition for what will scale effectively

• A product led mindset, keen to code for the output and the impact

• Fluent/professional English given our international team

What can we offer you?

• Competitive compensation package with BSPCEs

• 3 days in-office in central Paris, with 2 days WFH; and 4 weeks of remote work per year

• 100% travel to the office subsidised

• Health insurance via Alan

• Urban Sports Club gym membership

• We will provide you with the gear you need for your role (a laptop and a phone, for on-call rotations)

• Swile meal vouchers

• Free snacks and drinks in the office

• An annual offsite in great locations

• The opportunity to build something from 0-1, and make an impact every day

Interview process

• Meet a member of the Talent team

• Technical interview

• In person interview (system design, coding)

• Final meeting with CEO