Senior Backend Engineer

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Permanent contract
Paris
Salary: Not specified
A few days at home
Skills & expertise
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Job description

Build the foundation of Hivebrite’s AI-powered, API-first platform — and help scale communities driving change worldwide 🌍 🚀

Hivebrite is an all-in-one community management and engagement platform. Our mission is to provide organizations with the tools they need to create impactful communities.

Our SaaS platform serves customers across a variety of industries including higher education, non-profit, and corporate. Founded in 2015, today we count more than 900 customers worldwide - including Boeing, the Obama Foundation, the National Academy of Sciences, the University of Notre Dame, the U.S. Naval Academy, the British Heart Foundation, the Imperial College London, the P&G Alumni France, and Le Wagon Alumni.

We employ over 170 people across our entities in Paris, New York, the UK, and Sydney, and 30+ nationalities are represented in our team! 🌍

At Hivebrite, we believe in the importance of balancing your work commitments and personal life. You’re able to have a real impact on meaningful communities while prioritizing your personal life and goals. Our work policy encourages a healthy work-life harmony with a flexible schedule.We also have many initiatives to keep our global team connected, offering opportunities to meet and socialize with team members virtually and in-person! 👋

For these reasons, we were awarded Best Hybrid Place to Work by BuiltIn in the US and Choose My Company and HappyIndex at Work in France last year! 🏆
Find out everything about us here!

Jump aboard, and join the hive! 🚀


🌟 The Opportunity

Hivebrite is entering an exciting new chapter. We’re evolving our platform to meet growing customer demands with a modern, scalable, and intelligent foundation.
But this isn't just about tech — Hivebrite powers thousands of communities making a difference in the world. From sustainability and education to diversity and social innovation, our platform enables meaningful connection and collective impact. Here’s what’s ahead:

  • Decoupling our monolith into a modular, service-based architecture
  • Replatforming to API-first, enabling richer integrations and more flexibility
  • Infusing AI throughout — from product features (recommendations, smart workflows) to internal tooling (DevEx, CI/CD, Copilot, Cursor, Bolt)
  • Raising the bar on performance, observability, and scalability to support a fast-growing, global user base

This is a pivotal time to join. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll be instrumental in driving this transformation.

🌟 Our Impact

Hivebrite isn’t just another SaaS platform — we power over 1,000 communities worldwide working toward real change.
Our customers include
As a Senior Engineer, your work will directly support these communities by making their digital spaces faster, smarter, and more impactful.


🌟 Your Role

You’ll work across product and platform initiatives to:

  • Design and build scalable backend services using Ruby, Python, Node.js/TypeScript, or Golang
  • Lead the decomposition of our monolith into modular, service-oriented components
  • Drive performance and reliability improvements, leveraging async queues, caching strategies, and data modeling
  • Implement AI-powered features (personalization, automation, recommendations) in collaboration with Product and Data teams
  • Elevate our internal developer experience, integrating AI tooling (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor) and streamlining CI/CD workflows
  • Engineer robust integrations with third-party APIs, webhooks, and event-driven systems
  • Champion technical excellence across testing, observability, and system design
  • Shape the technical vision, actively contributing to architecture reviews and long-term platform strategy


🌟 About You

We’re looking for someone who thrives in fast-moving environments and has a strong engineering backbone:

  • Proficient in on of these stacks Ruby, Python, Node.js/TypeScript, Golang
  • Track record of building high-scale backend systems (millions of users, high throughput, distributed architecture)
  • Experience with service extraction and API-first designs
  • Solid grasp of distributed systems, async processing, observability, and modern caching strategies
  • Interest or hands-on experience with AI/ML applications in product or engineering contexts
  • Familiar with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP), and modern DevOps tooling
  • Collaborative, thoughtful communicator who enjoys leading cross-functional technical efforts
  • Fluent in English (written and spoken)



🌟 Why Join Hivebrite?

  • Help scale organizations advancing sustainability, education, diversity & inclusion, public health, and more.
  • Shape the core architecture of a fast-growing SaaS platform
  • Work on cutting-edge AI-powered features with real-world impact
  • Be part of a product-first, tech-driven company with sustainable growth
  • Join a diverse, remote-friendly engineering team that values impact and quality over hours worked
  • Benefit from modern engineering practices & tooling (CI/CD, observability, AI-assisted development)


🌟Hivebrite's perks & benefits 


    Flexibility & Time Off

    • Remote-friendly with flexible policy
    • Between 1 and 12 weeks of Nomad per year
    • Around 2 weeks of RTT
    • Extra leaves for family time (sick kids, quality days, special situations)
    • 2 months paid leave for second caregivers

    Well-being & Meaning

    • Moka Care mental health support (sessions, group workshops)
    • 1 paid volunteer day
    • Your birthday off
    • Monthly team events & yearly department offsites

    Office & Culture

    • Paris HQ with rooftop, pool, gym & international vibe
    • Engineering squads meet twice a month
    • Regular team gatherings & community moments

    Growth & Development

    • Internal mobility, training & tailored career support
    • Discover our Employee Journey + team stories on Instagram

    Competitive Package

    • Enhanced health coverage with Alan (vision, dental, alt. care)
    • Swile: lunch vouchers + CSE perks
    • Navigo 100% reimbursed (Paris)
    • Latest Apple gear + €200 remote setup budget
    • Salary aligned with market standards


🌟 Recruitment Process

    • Meet Ruben, our Tech Recruiter, for a first video-call to better understand your career plan and answer any of your questions (60 mins).
    • Meeting with Samy (Engineering Manager) and Valentin (Software Engineer) to discuss performance issues, product-driven approach and some RoR patterns (60 mins).
    • Meet 2 Senior Backend Engineers to discuss around a technical architecture review exercise (60 mins).
    • Meet Tarek, our CPTO, to speak about your long-term involvement with Hivebrite (60 mins).


If you want to know everything you need about Hivebrite, check out our Welcome To The Jungle page : here!

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