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Senior Backend Engineer, Engagement & Monetization
Location
France
Posted
62 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Backend Engineer, Engagement & Monetization
Yubo
• Define technical direction for backend initiatives within the Engagement & Monetization squad. • Translate product and monetization goals into actionable backend specifications. • Deliver KPI-impacting backend changes that directly contribute to core business metrics. • Make sound trade-offs between speed, quality, scalability, and product outcomes, documenting decisions when needed. • Ensure production readiness (testing, resilience, observability, operational excellence). • Support experimentation by building measurable, well-instrumented, safe-to-iterate systems. • Improve tracking and observability to reliably attribute experiment impact • Contribute to backend codebase improvements (e.g., TypeScript migration) • Mentor engineers through reviews, pairing, and design feedback. • Create alignment across squads and proactively manage cross-team dependencies. • Strengthen documentation, specs, and onboarding materials to increase squad effectiveness.
Job Requirements
- 8+ years of backend engineering experience, in startup/scale-up environments
- Highly proficient in Node.js and TypeScript.
- Strong experience designing and scaling APIs (performance, security, observability).
- Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS).
- Comfortable designing scalable architectures serving high volumetry.
- Deep knowledge of databases (SQL & NoSQL) in production environments.
- Strong engineering best practices (testing, resilience, documentation).
- Strong product mindset and understand how backend decisions impact business KPIs
- Enjoy mentoring and raising the technical bar within a squad.
- Comfortable working in English in an international environment.
Benefits
- A highly competitive salary range as well as equity in the company
- A highly flexible remote work policy, 2 days at the office per month, with monthly team events.
- We also cover fees for external professional events and meetups (Android Makers, etc…)
- Great health insurance coverage for both you and your family by Alan, fully paid for by Yubo !
- Numerous benefits for parents: additional parental leave, easy access to nurseries and daycare facilities in France.
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