We are looking for a highly skilled Lead Backend Engineer. This is a unique opportunity to join Catalog as the first lead backend engineer and have a huge impact on the product and the technical stack.

You will work closely with our CTO Maxime and the front lead.

You are a technical leader at heart and will support the overall decision-making process as well as the company’s sustained growth.

As Lead Backend Engineer you will:

• Build our technical stack and ensure software security & reliability
• Manage the CICD, the cloud infrastructure, the databases and the monitoring system
• Work hand-in-hand with Maxime & Julien on the product strategy, measure the effort of the various features, anticipate and evaluate the structuring technical choices
• Develop, deploy and maintain new features
• You build it, you run it !
• Ensure code review and knowledge sharing across the team
• Hire, mentor, and manage a tech team, to allow them to grow and give their full potential
• Data and IT architecture will have to functionally and technically scale.

Tech Stack

• Tools: Monorepo (Nx), Github, Copilote etc.
• App: Next.JS, React, Apollo GraphQL, TypeScript, tailwind
• API&DB: nodeJS, GraphQL (Nexus), PostgreSQL, Redis, Prisma
• Cloud: AWS, Amplify, Beanstalk, terraform
• Testing: Cypress, Jest

• You have 7+ years of software engineer experience on full-stack web apps.
• Experience in managing tech teams.
• Interest: You have a genuine interest in e-commerce
• Entrepreneurial mindset: you thrive in fast-paced environments where you have broad responsibilities
• Ownership mentality: you are a doer and have a bias for action, no task is below you
• Organization skills: you know how to prioritize and split your tasks efficiently
• Team player: you enjoy sharing and learning from each other
• Initiative and innovation: you don’t hesitate to challenge and suggest new practices
• Product lover: you fully understand what we want to bring to our users, and you are eager to deliver the best possible UX to them
• Abstraction ability: you are able to step back and rethink our model globally
• Strong attention to details: code quality is important for you and you set a high bar.

Benefits

• Challenging work experience building and owning an ambitious product
• Quality-driven environment
• Competitive compensation and equity package
• Awesome colleagues with high ambitions
• A strong product and technical culture
• Lovely offices located in the heart of Paris or in a wonderful region Bordeaux
• Full Remote position
• And the opportunity to work in a friendly, young and fun atmosphere!

Hexa is committed to creating a diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment irrespective of gender, origins, identity, background and orientations.
We are aware there’s a long way to go with regards to diversity in our industry, which is why we encourage all applicants- and especially those listed above- to apply to our open positions.