Software Engineer - Shippers Team

Dashdoc; Nantes; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Dashdoc is expanding its Tech Team in France to accelerate the Shippers portion of the product. You will join a small, autonomous squad to refine data models, implement APIs, and help scale the platform.

The role emphasizes building robust Django-based services, writing clear documentation, and contributing to a fast-moving SaaS environment with a strong emphasis on code quality and collaboration.

Qualifications

• Strong Python/Django development experience for scalable SaaS features.
• Familiar with AI coding tools and modern development practices.
• Experience with complex data models and scalable databases is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to building the Shippers part of the product in a small team.
• Refine and simplify the data model to adapt to evolving product needs.
• Implement new APIs to enable powerful features.
• Write decision records and documentation for scalability.
• Help establish engineering best practices within the team.

Skills

Entrepreneurial spirit

Product sense

Autonomous development

AI coding tools

Clean code

Communication skills

Django experience

English proficiency

Tools

Django

PostgreSQL

React/React-Native

Job description

Tech Team and Technical Stack

We are building the infrastructure and interfaces necessary to optimize the main processes of road freight transport.

Currently, the tech team consists of around 45 people; you will have a significant impact on the evolution of the company and the product!

The product is divided into three parts: the API, the mobile app, and the web app. The API is developed in Python/Django with Django Rest Framework, uses PostgreSQL, and is hosted on Google Cloud. The apps are developed in React/React-Native.

Our product is very wide with a lot of features, and our unique database architecture where our users share data between companies pose significant technical challenges. Many newcomers in the team tell us this is the most complex app that they have worked on!

How we work

We use the Shape Up method to organize the teams. Our timeline is organized in 8-week cycles consisting of 6 weeks of feature development followed by 2 weeks of cooldown where the tech team can focus on refactoring, bug fixing, performance improvements.

You can read more about it on our tech blog.

We operate with continuous deployment (Github/Github Actions) and release new product enhancements every day, with feature flags to ensure smooth delivery.

The Mission

• Take part in building the Shippers part of our product in a small team that just started!

• Continuously refine and simplify the data model to adapt to the ever changing product

• Implement new APIs to create powerful features

• Write decision records, documentation, and ensure the team can scale

• Help establish best practices within the team

You have an entrepreneurial spirit and product sense, you love solving problems for users!You are autonomous and can develop features from conception to completionYou are proficient with AI coding tools and eager to learn to push their limitsWriting clean code is important to youYou are always looking for ways to simplify and optimize existing code and you love a PR that deletes lines :)You can communicate clearly in writingBonus: you have experience working on a complex SaaS platform or social networkBonus: you have experience with DjangoBonus: experience with 1TB+ scale databasesAmbitious: you want to be part of transforming an industry!Hard worker: we move fast and expect everyone in the team to be efficientSpoken/written English mandatory (we have an international team!)