Senior Backend Software Engineer

Who you are

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

What the job involves

• The Core Squad is responsible for the logical layer that all other GitGuardian teams build on top of
• When a customer deploys our platform across thousands of developers, our code is what determines whether everything scales: authentication, permissions, provisioning, notifications, APIs, billing
• None of this can break, and everything needs to operate at scale
• Complete the platformization journey. Migrate our existing customers to the platform without disrupting any alerting channels. Concretely: ensure notifier parity, redesign the notification core to reconcile synchronous and asynchronous delivery, build Slack threading and DMs, and enable customizable email templates
• Scale GitHub check runs. They block pull requests for most of our customers: GitHub API rate limits, database load spikes, dedicated Celery queues, and handling very large merge requests. Any incident here is immediately visible to customers
• Redesign our plan architecture so Product and Sales teams can assemble offers and activate modules without requiring Engineering intervention
• Open the platform externally: Build OAuth2, public APIs, and integrations with our customers’ ASPM ecosystems
• Evolve a large Django monolith: dependency inversion, typing improvements, progressive decomposition. This is a real architecture challenge, not cosmetic refactoring
• Rethink self-service onboarding, where a significant portion of new workspaces currently never reach their first value moment
• Build and improve health check systems for our integrations
• Our scope
• Identity: SSO/SAML, MFA
• Provisioning: SCIM, JIT
• RBAC: Teams, roles, and access rights
• Opening the platform: Public API, OAuth2, GitHub check runs, notifiers, and ticketing integrations (Slack, Jira, ServiceNow, Splunk, PagerDuty, MS Teams, webhooks)
• Product trust and observability: Audit and activity logs, data source health checks, in-app analytics
• Monetization: Billing and modular plan architecture
• 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

The application process

• 1. Video call with a Talent Acquisition team member
• To discover your professional project and evaluate if there could be a mutual match
• 2. Team interview / Interview with your future manager
• To know more about yourself and your achievements, and present to you the team
• 3. 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

Benefits

• 🌴 A remote-friendly environment up to 3 days / week
• 💸 An attractive package that includes stock-options
• 💻 The latest setup equipment including cool apps, tools and technologies
• 👊 Working to develop a meaningful product → we already helped more than 200k developers!
• 🍺 Lots of team-building activities
• 🚀 Many opportunities for career development in the long term
• 📈 A strong engineering culture
• 🐕 Pet-friendly offices → every Guardian gets to bring their dogs to the office and we love it!
• 👫 Lots of trust & autonomy on your perimeter with a very transparent internal communication