Lead Backend Engineer @Catalog

🚀 eFounders is a startup studio, part of Hexa

We partner with talented cofounders to build the future of product-led SaaS.

We pioneered the startup studio model in 2011 and have since launched over 30 companies (7 of them have made exits) with $700M in funding and now reaching a valuation of over $5 billion - including Front, Aircall and Spendesk which recently became unicorns.

Today, over 2,500 employees across the world work in a startup which started out as a simple mockup right here at eFounders.

💬 Who we are. We are passionate builders with one common goal: to build the next generation of SaaS companies. We’re a team of hands-on expert in Product, Design, GTM and more, ready to help founders get their startups off the ground.

⭐ Our companies:  Roundtable • Elba • Dotfile • Swan • Cycle • Folk • Upflow • Yousign + many other startups and more to come 🚀

We are Catalog

We are on a mission: revolutionizing tomorrow’s B2B transactions worlwide.

B2B is huge (5 times bigger than B2C), B2B is at the center of our everyday lives, B2B employs so many of us - yet B2B trades has not benefited from the major improvements it deserves lately.

We want to address that and unleash the true potential of real B2B heroes (cf. sales & purchase teams) with the most advanced & human centric tool ever created.

We will start with a very specific project: building a B2B focused e-commerce platform.

We have a plan to make it great and we need you to make it real.

#joinCatalog

Catalog has been founded by an experienced team:

• Julien, CEO, ex Boston Consulting Group Principal
• Maxime, CTO, ex Head Of Engineering & ex founder/CTO

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.