Software Engineer - Core Platform

Lefty (lefty.io) est une plateforme de marketing d’influence. Plus de 100 marques utilisent Lefty au quotidien pour gérer leurs relations avec leur ambassadeurs: identification, tracking des contenus et reporting.

Sur les 5 dernieres annees, le marché du marketing d’influence a double de taille chaque année. Une tendance se dégage: les annonceurs internalisent de plus en plus ce type de communication. La gestion des relations influenceurs est complexe: il faut pouvoir identifier les influenceurs les plus pertinents, communiquer avec eux, mesurer leur impact puis optimiser.

Lefty est une plateforme qui permet aux marques de gagner du temps et de la précision dans la gestion quotidienne de l’influence en les aidant à optimiser et automatiser ces tâches. Nos clients : Dior, Guerlain, Louis Vuitton, Swatch, Chanel, les Laboratoires Nuxe, H&M, etc….

Company

We build Lefty.io: the influence marketing platform that enables hundreds of Lifestyle brands and agencies to optimize their strategy for social media. Launched in 2018, the company is profitable and rapidly growing with offices in Paris, New-York and Shanghai.

We have ambitious goals for the years to come and we are hiring backend software engineers to grow the product team.

Role

We have built a clean code base and modular infrastructure that spans all the facts of a modern data platform: crawling, filtering and enriching data, indexing, serving.

As a backend engineer you will get to perform a wide variety of tasks, for instance:

• Optimizing the reliability, performance and bandwidth of our crawlers.
• Craft algorithms to enrich data, filter out spammy accounts, dynamically merge profiles, etc…
• Store and process big data at scale.
• Write business logic and the APIs that power our various frontends.
• Integrate third-party APIs for instance e-commerce and payment providers.

Tech stack

The vast majority of our tools and servers are written in Java 17.

REST APIs and server to server communication are both implemented using gRPC.

We work with a wide variety of storage solution, most notably MySQL (using Hibernate), ES, Cassandra, S3.

We also employ Typescript for some parts of the crawling infrastructure, and python for machine learning.

Joining the team

We have built a product focused company which especially reflects in the tech team: all development is done in-house and every team member lives and breathes for the product, its quality, snappiness and feature completeness. As software engineers, we take very special care of the code quality, readability and maintainability in every details. We are looking for new hires who share the same mindset.

As a junior or seasoned engineer, one of the main reason to join us is that we will take every step towards developing and growing your skills quickly. You will get to work on interesting challenges, and will be given ownership of real, production facing projects. We have an A Team of senior engineers, tech leads from prestigious tech companies and open-source contributors, who are very dedicated to mentoring.

As you join a rapidly growing company you will witness first-hand the scaling of a company, and will have many opportunities to take on new responsibilities grow with the company.

We are an agile team with little politics, so you can focus and developing and innovating.

Perks

We offer the customary benefits: health care, transportation, as well as various offsites, afterworks, etc…

We work from a cool office right in the center of Paris.

Remote policy

We allow employee to work from home 1 day per week on an ongoing basis.

In addition we have a flexible remote policy to accommodate for traveling needs, emergencies, etc

However we are not looking for full-remote candidates.