Staff Backend Engineer: Scale, Architecture & AI

Bsport; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

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Job summary

bsport is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to shape the technical direction of our platform as we scale across Europe. You will join our Barcelona and Paris engineering efforts, own cross-team problems, and help design scalable services, data models and APIs.

You will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and push for reliability and observability while delivering pragmatic solutions in Python, Django and AWS. English proficiency is required.

Qualifications

• Extensive backend engineering experience with Python; Django a plus.
• Proven track record building distributed systems at scale serving millions of users.
• Ability to challenge decisions across the full stack: data models, services, APIs, networking, infra.
• Experience leading technical initiatives that span multiple teams without formal authority.
• Strong ownership mentality and willingness to influence product and design decisions.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical strategy and architecture within the team and across the engineering organisation.
• Own complex cross-team problems from framing to implementation, balancing trade-offs.
• Set architectural direction with patterns, standards and best practices for multiple teams.
• Mentor engineers and raise technical bar across the organisation.
• Improve system reliability and observability; contribute to tooling and platform evolution.

Skills

Backend engineering

Python

Distributed systems

Leadership initiative

Architecture

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Python

Django

PostgreSQL

AWS

Job description

bsport is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to shape the technical direction of our platform as we scale across Europe. You will join our Barcelona and Paris engineering efforts, own cross-team problems, and help design scalable services, data models and APIs.

You will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and push for reliability and observability while delivering pragmatic solutions in Python, Django and AWS. English proficiency is required.