Hybrid Senior Back End Engineer

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About the role

  • Senior Backend Engineer developing scalable backend systems for Taster, a foodtech startup. Collaborating on robust architecture and integrating AI-powered capabilities into the platform.

Responsibilities

  • Own complex backend features end-to-end, from design to deployment and iteration
  • Collaborate closely with product managers, frontend engineers, and operations teams
  • Design and build scalable APIs and services powering customer-facing and internal tools
  • Ensure reliability and performance of critical systems (ordering, payments, operations)
  • Design robust, scalable architectures on Google Cloud Platform
  • Improve system reliability, observability, and performance
  • Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
  • Lead technical discussions and contribute to architecture decisions and best practices
  • Evaluate when to leverage LLMs vs traditional coding approaches depending on reliability, performance, cost, and maintainability
  • Mentor other engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in backend development
  • Strong experience with Python (FastAPI or similar frameworks)
  • Experience designing scalable distributed systems
  • Solid experience with GCP (or similar cloud platforms)
  • Strong understanding of APIs, databases, and asynchronous systems
  • Experience with monitoring, performance optimization, and system reliability
  • Familiarity with event-driven architectures is a plus
  • Experience coding with LLM-assisted tools (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot)
  • Interest in integrating AI into backend systems and workflows
  • Fluent in English
  • Fluent in French

Benefits

  • Flexible work / remote 50%
  • Quarterly bonus scheme
  • Referral bonus
  • 2 mental health first raiders trained both in Paris and London
  • Wellness Calendar
  • Regular Taster's events to celebrate
  • Fruits every week

Job title

Senior Back End Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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