Role

Side is a temp agency startup which relies on an end to end digital experience! In the coming months and years we plan to grow in order to offer the best temp work product in France and beyond.
We are looking for a back-end engineer. As a back-end at Side, your goal will be to work on all the parts of our products, from mobile to web, in a microservice architecture. Working within our product team, you’ll be able to participate in the feature decisions and grow personally and professionally in a challenging and enjoyable environment.

So if you want to build the best scalable product in the market with very talented and passionate people, join us!

Missions

• Discover and own part of the back-end codebase
• Do a whole development cycle, from specs to coding, releasing and post release monitoring
• Unify and refactor our codebase to match our current quality standards
• Master peer coding and peer reviewing
• Release majors features using latest standards and stack
• Enhance our implementations of concurrency
• Improve and unify unit testing in order to keep your code highly error proof
• Use your knowledge to challenge and improve our habits, patterns and libraries
• Prepare for internationalization and at least x2 scale by building scalable code

Your profile

• If not Golang - C / C++, Rust or any memory/thread/low-level language knowledge
• Proven experience in databases usage
• Proven experience in version control tools like git
• Proven experience and knowledge of REST and HTTP design patterns
• Experience in unit testing
• Experience in working in UNIX environment
• Be able to explain and clearly describe your technical problems to your peers
• Code reviews mechanism and benefits are known to you
• Comfortable in working (remotely) with a remote team, in an autonomous way
• Good english level (spoken and written)

Bonus

• Previous experiences with working in a startup and fast paced environment (large scope, release often, etc
• Previous experiences with working in a multi-platform product (web, mobile)
• Previous experiences with microservices architecture
• Extended knowledge in different databases (no-sql - mongodb, sql, distributed stores, in memory stores, etc.)
• Experience in several communication patterns (REST, gRPC, Websockets, etc.)
• Experience in scripting languages (js, python)

What Side offers

• An exciting job within a dedicated team working on an interesting, challenging and central topic: Work
• Ownership and responsibility
• Frequent team events : Team buildings, Monthly Kickoffs, Offsites, Afterworks …
• Flexible offices (WeWork) located in the center of Paris when you don’t work remotely
• Choose your hardware, mac / windows / linux
• 9€ / worked day lunch card (Swile)
• 9j RTT / year
• Monthly allowance for transportation or remote work (50€ / month)
• Good healthcare (Alan)
• Transparent communication, regular 1:1, followup and quarter reviews

Recruitment process

1. First call with someone from the Product Team - 30min.
2. Technical assessment over a 48h period
3. Culture Fit Interview with a manager from the Product team - 1h30min
4. Meet the team, around an extended coffee break or lunch - 1h~1h30min
5. Offer 🎉