Job Description
Company Description
Dailymotion is more than just a video app, it’s a visual conversation in motion powered by a unique algorithm designed to develop users’ critical thinking. Dailymotion brings nuance to the debates that engage young audiences and puts listening, discovery, and kindness back at the heart of exchanges to help build a safer and more virtuous Internet.
Dailymotion is also “ Dailymotion Pro”, a video hosting and streaming solution serving professionals across all industries; and “ Dailymotion Advertising”, a powerful proprietary video marketing platform that offers a high-quality and safe environment for brands.
Our team is made up of 400 employees in France, New York, and Singapore, all united by the same ambition: to visibly shake up the video platform ecosystem worldwide.
Job Description
We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Creator Platform team within our Studio. At Dailymotion, we believe every creator deserves world-class tools to succeed. Our Creator Platform is the engine that empowers thousands of creators (from independent artists to major media companies) to share their content with audiences worldwide. This team is at the heart of our Studio organization: we design and develop the tools and services that enable creators to succeed across the Dailymotion ecosystem.
Join our Creator Platform team, and you’ll build products with direct, measurable impact: every feature you ship helps creators upload more easily, monetize better, and grow their audience. You’ll collaborate with product, design, data, and engineering teams on features that directly impact how creators manage their content on Dailymotion.
What you’ll do
- Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs that power creator features on Dailymotion
- Work with our primarily Python stack alongside legacy PHP systems in both monolithic and microservice architectures
- Solve complex technical challenges around video processing, content management, creator workflows, and platform scalability
- Make pragmatic architectural decisions, balancing technical excellence, creator needs, and business objectives
- Produce clear and comprehensive technical specifications that facilitate collaboration across engineering teams
- Be highly responsive in your communications respond quickly to questions, provide regular updates, and keep stakeholders informed
- Actively participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback and learning from others
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code that others can understand and evolve
- Champion engineering best practices: testing, documentation, observability, and operational excellence
Qualifications
✅ Must-haves
- 5+ years of backend development experience shipping production systems at scale
- Python mastery: it’s your daily tool. Experience with PHP (or willingness to work on legacy PHP codebases)
- Solid backend fundamentals: APIs, databases, caching, queuing systems, distributed systems
- Modern backend architecture: distributed systems, async processing, event-driven architectures
- API design expertise: REST, GraphQL, or similar
- Cloud infrastructure: hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Containerization and orchestration: Docker and related tools
- Git, CI/CD, and modern dev workflows: you’re comfortable with all of it
- Autonomy: you’re used to working independently and shipping without constant supervision
- English is mandatory: it’s the team’s daily working language. French is a plus.
📍 Location: Paris with 3 days remote per week
🌱 Nice-to-haves
- Comfortable using AI tools (Copilot, ChatGPT, etc.) to prototype, debug, test, or document while understanding their limitations
- Startup or production company experience where you had to make do with limited resources
- Skilled at writing clear, comprehensive technical specs that actually help other teams
- Highly responsive communicator: teammates can count on quick replies and updates
⭐ What will really make the difference
You thrive in ambiguity, love diving into unfamiliar code, and navigate complex systems even when documentation is sparse (or nonexistent). You prefer autonomy over micromanagement, turn messy problems into clean solutions, and always keep creator needs front and center.
Additional Information
Dailymotion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and inclusion: your role is key to helping us build a more inclusive community.
All our job openings are open to people with disabilities, and we actively encourage everyone to apply.
If you have accessibility needs or require accommodations during the hiring process, please let us know in advance so we can make the necessary arrangements.
First call (30 min) with the Talent Acquisition team: An initial conversation to get to know each other, introduce you to Dailymotion, understand your background and expectations, and answer your first questions.
Video call (45 min) with your future manager: An in-depth exchange to talk concretely about the role, your day-to-day, your skills, and see how you could thrive within the team.
Two technical interviews (1h each): Your chance to dive into our real technical challenges, show how you approach problems, and see if your skills match our needs.
Meet the team: Because great teams are built together. An informal moment to meet your future colleagues and get a feel for the daily vibe.
🎉 Welcome to Dailymotion
