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 AI Integration team within our Studio.
This team is dedicated to integrating AI-powered workflows with Mojo into Studio. You’ll be working as a backend developer in an AI-first environment, building the infrastructure that brings intelligent features to content creators.
By joining this team, you’ll collaborate with product, design, data, and engineering teams on features that directly impact how creators upload, manage, monetize, and grow their content on Dailymotion. Your work will empower creators from independent artists to major media companies to reach their audiences and build successful channels.
What you’ll do
- Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs that power AI-driven features across Dailymotion
- Build robust Python applications that integrate with AI models and services in production environments
- 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
✅ What we’re looking for
- 5+ years of backend development experience with systems already shipped to production at scale
- Python mastery: it’s your go-to tool, your daily driver. 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, asynchronous processing, event-driven architectures
- API design: you know the principles (REST, GraphQL, or similar)
- Cloud infrastructure: hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Containerization and orchestration: Docker and associated tools
- Git, CI/CD, and modern dev workflows: you’re comfortable with all of it
- Autonomy: you’re used to working independently and delivering 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
- You’re comfortable with AI tools (Copilot, ChatGPT, etc.) for prototyping, debugging, testing, or documenting while knowing their limitations
- You’ve worked in a startup or production company where you had to figure things out with limited resources
- You can write clear, comprehensive technical specs that are actually useful for other teams
- You’re highly responsive in your communications: your teammates can count on quick answers and regular 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 non-existent). You prefer autonomy over micromanagement, transform messy problems into clean solutions, and always keep creators’ needs top of mind.
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
