Senior Software Engineer (backend, Django) - NHI team

If you think you match at least 70% of these criteria, please apply!

Here's what we consider essential for success in this role:

You have at least 5+ years of web software development experience, with a strong Django knowledge (or another Python web development framework like FastAPI or Flask).

You are experienced working with the following: web application development, task orchestration, distributed systems, managing big data flows.

You have a dynamic and proactive personality. You’re always willing to help your colleagues.

You are good at communicating your ideas (written or oral) in English and French. You adapt and can be high level, or deep dive into solutions.

The following skills would strengthen your application but aren't required:

You have a track record of working with a big monolithic code base, and you know some architecture best practices in such an environment.

You have built and operated graph databases with millions of nodes

You have worked on a early product

At GitGuardian, we are committed to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive workforce.

We will ask for your gender identity on the application page to help us understand the diversity of our applicant pool and to track our progress in attracting and hiring a diverse workforce. The information is optional and will not be disclosed to the hiring manager or the interview team and will not be considered in the hiring process. We appreciate your willingness to share this with us so that we can continue to improve our diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.

Video call with a Senior Engineering Manager (45 minutes)

Purpose: The goal here is to get to know you, talk about your past experiences, present GitGuardian, who we are, what problems we solve, and answer any questions you may have. Skills Assessed: We assess your soft skills (ownership, communication), motivation and your understanding of our problem space.

Technical interview with Engineers (2x45 minutes)

Purpose: We validate your hard skills. A first part is focusing on Python, theoretical questions and hands-on live coding exercises. The second part is a system design discussion: we walk you through a problem we've had at GitGuardian. Overall, we want to see how you write code and think about real-world problems. Skills Assessed: Python coding proficiency, architecture skills and overall communication and reasoning.

Interview with your future manager (60 minutes)

Purpose: We ensure your vision and working style align with GitGuardian's broader company strategy and values. Skills Assessed: Your high-level business acumen, strategic thinking, and cultural alignment. We want to understand your potential long-term impact on the company.

4.1 Final interview with an Executive Manager

To detail our company’s vision and ambitions for the next couple of years.

4.2 References check

You can start thinking about two contacts who can attest to your previous or current professional experiences. These contacts should be as recent as possible, and we will call them at the end of the process.

Products

Understand how GitGuardian works in this short video!

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Check out the State of Secrets Sprawl Report to understand our mission and the industry.

Our solutions are already used by hundreds of thousands of developers in all industries and GitGuardian platform is the n°1 app on the GitHub marketplace 🔥

Clients

GitGuardian helps organizations find exposed sensitive information that could often lead to tens of millions of dollars in potential damage.

More than 70% of our customers are in the United States.

Many F500 companies use GitGuardian's platform.

People

The Guardians are knowledgeable, committed, serious, aligned with the company’s mission, and true team players: always willing to help each other grow our skill sets!

The team is diverse and we hail from more than 20 different countries.

We are also agile, remote-friendly, and fun people to work with.

You will get trust & autonomy on your perimeter with a very transparent internal communication and a strong impact on the company development.