Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

You will code every day and own the end-to-end delivery of projects: scoping with the PM and designer, technical design, implementation, deployment, monitoring. You own what you ship, including in production.

Beyond your own delivery, you will help raise the engineering bar across the team: reviewing your peers’ code, mentoring more junior engineers, driving quality standards, and contributing to technical decisions when designs impact our broader platform.

The team currently consists of 3 senior engineers (backend, frontend, full-stack), 1 engineering manager, 1 product manager, and 1 designer.

5+ years of experience in web development, with strong proficiency in Django (or another Python web framework such as FastAPI or Flask)

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

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

Experience building web applications, task orchestration, distributed systems, and managing large data flows

The ability to own a project or feature end-to-end: from scoping with Product and Design, to technical design, implementation, deployment, and monitoring

A dynamic and proactive mindset, always willing to support and help teammates

Strong written and verbal communication skills in both English and French, with the ability to move from high-level discussions to deep technical dives

Strong proficiency in AI-assisted development workflows

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

Significant experience working with a large monolithic codebase, along with knowledge of architecture best practices in this type of environment

An interest in refactoring and building reliable systems

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 Talent Acquisition team member

To discover your professional project and evaluate if there could be a mutual match.

Team interview / Interview with your future manager

To know more about yourself and your achievements, and present to you the team.

Technical interview

To evaluate your skills for the position and project yourself into the role.

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.

Stack

Backend: Python (Django) Go, Rust Frontend: JavaScript (React), TypeScript, React Query, Jest DB: PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch (+ Kibana), MongoDB Observability: Elastic Stack, Sentry, Grafana LGTM, OTEL Deployment: ArgoCD, GitlabCI, Terraform Runtime: Kubernetes (Karpenter, Istio) Cloud providers: AWS and OVH Message brokering: RabbitMQ, Redis

Products

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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.