Software Engineer, Core Backend — Remote, Equity, PTO

Jobgether; France; Remote; EUR 72,000 - 107,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Fully remote work

Home office stipend

Equipment provided

Learning & development budget

Maternity & paternity leave

Offsite team events

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a Software Engineer: Core in France to join a high-performing team building the foundational tech behind a next‑gen ecommerce search and discovery platform. You will design, develop, and operate scalable backend systems powering intelligent search and recommendations for global ecommerce.

You will work on distributed systems, performance optimization, and cutting‑edge technologies, collaborating with engineers who value ownership, curiosity, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Strong computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, concurrency, and systems design.
• Professional experience building, developing, and scaling high-traffic, highly available backend systems.
• Experience designing and operating backend infrastructure, including deployment automation, capacity planning, and observability.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, system performance, reliability, and production environments.
• Ability to work across different layers of the stack, from low-level, performance-sensitive code to production operations.
• Programming languages: Rust, C++, Python.
• Cloud infrastructure: AWS.
• CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions.
• Monitoring and observability: Prometheus, Grafana.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain the core backend services and infrastructure that power a large-scale search and discovery platform.
• Build and optimize highly available, distributed systems capable of processing billions of requests daily with exceptional performance and reliability.
• Develop scalable solutions that support interactions between user requests, customer product catalogs, and intelligent platform capabilities.
• Contribute to infrastructure design, deployment automation, capacity planning, and production operations.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve system performance, availability, and resilience across distributed environments.
• Work across multiple layers of the technology stack, from performance-critical application code to infrastructure and operational systems.
• Collaborate with engineers across teams to continuously improve architecture, engineering practices, and platform capabilities.

Skills

CS fundamentals

Backend systems

Distributed systems

Rust

C++

Python

AWS

CI/CD

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Grafana

Observability

Ownership

Collaboration

Tools

AWS

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Jobgether is seeking a Software Engineer: Core in France to join a high-performing team building the foundational tech behind a next‑gen ecommerce search and discovery platform. You will design, develop, and operate scalable backend systems powering intelligent search and recommendations for global ecommerce.

You will work on distributed systems, performance optimization, and cutting‑edge technologies, collaborating with engineers who value ownership, curiosity, and continuous improvement.