Backend Engineer (Go)

Prelude; Paris; Hybride; EUR 60 000 - 65 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

BSPCEs

3 days in-office in central Paris, 2+2

4 weeks remote work per year

Health insurance

Urban Sports Club gym membership

Swile meal vouchers

On-call gear provided

Résumé du poste

Prelude in Paris is hiring a Go backend engineer to design and scale a distributed platform for secure user onboarding. You will own core services, collaborate with frontend and infra teams, and ship robust APIs.

The role blends hands-on coding with architectural thinking, uses DynamoDB, SQS, Redshift, Lambdas, and gRPC, and offers a hybrid Paris schedule, BSPCEs, and health benefits. We value ownership, action, and shipping impact; join a fast-growing European team building market-defining

Qualifications

• Experience designing and engineering large-scale systems.
• Strong coding skills in Go; Rust/TypeScript is a plus.
• Product-led mindset with emphasis on impact and delivery.
• Fluent/professional English in an international team.

Responsabilités

• Build and scale a distributed system using Go, DynamoDB, SQS, Redshift and Lambdas.
• Develop a snappy full-stack app with Next.js and gRPC.
• Contribute to the Prelude API for usability, performance and functionality.
• Ensure services are scalable, reliable and extensible.
• Interact with clients to tailor features and support on-call rotations.

Connaissances

Go programming

Distributed systems

APIs

English communication

Outils

DynamoDB

SQS

Redshift

Lambdas

Next.js

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 organisations, 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-optimising 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 the 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

1. Meet a member of the Talent team
2. Technical interview
3. In person interview (system design, coding)
4. Final meeting with CEO

Compensation

Compensation: €60K - €65K - Offers Equity