Senior Backend API Engineer — Scalable Data Platform

Ultimate VC List; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Competitive compensation

Global team

Job summary

Odaseva, a leader in enterprise data management and security, is looking for an experienced Backend Engineer to join our Paris-based team. You will design and implement robust backend services and APIs, scale complex systems in the cloud, and own features from design through production in a hybrid work environment.

You will collaborate across disciplines, mentor peers, and apply AI-assisted approaches to engineering tasks while ensuring high standards in performance, security, and reliability.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
• 7+ years of hands-on backend development with ownership of significant features.
• Expertise in at least one backend language (Node.js/TypeScript, PHP, Go, or Python); production experience with two or more is a plus.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, event-driven architectures, databases, and testing.
• Experience with AWS, serverless, containers, IaC and observability tooling; Salesforce is a plus.
• Fluent in English and French with clear communication and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Backend Development: design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs, from technical design to production.
• Architecture & Scale: own complex features and sub-systems spanning multiple services, designed for large data volumes, multi-tenancy, performance, and cost in the cloud.
• Production Ownership: investigate issues across systems, profile and optimize production code, and spot risks before they reach customers.
• AI-Augmented Engineering: use AI tooling in your daily work, with the judgment to steer, review, and challenge what it produces.
• Technical Leadership: raise the team's practices and code health through design proposals, code reviews, and mentoring.

Skills

Backend development

API design

Cloud & AWS

English & French

Mentoring

Architecture & scale

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Engineering degree equivalent

Tools

AWS (serverless)

Kubernetes

IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation)

Monitoring/Observability tools

Job description

Odaseva, a leader in enterprise data management and security, is looking for an experienced Backend Engineer to join our Paris-based team. You will design and implement robust backend services and APIs, scale complex systems in the cloud, and own features from design through production in a hybrid work environment.

You will collaborate across disciplines, mentor peers, and apply AI-assisted approaches to engineering tasks while ensuring high standards in performance, security, and reliability.