SENIOR BACKEND ENGINEER

About

Hivebrite is an all-in-one community management and engagement platform. Our mission is to provide organizations with the tools they need to create vibrant communities.

Our SaaS platform serves customers across a variety of industries including higher education, non-profit, and corporate. Founded in 2015, today we count more than 900 customers worldwide - including Princeton University, Stanford University, and Columbia Business Schools but also WWF or P&G alumni.

We employ more than 100 people across our entities in France, in the US, in the UK, and in APAC, and 30 nationalities are represented in our team!

In 2023, we were awarded Best Hybrid Place to Work by BuiltIn in the US and Choose My Company and HappyIndex at Work in France.

And we have no intention of slowing down!

Job Description

Hivebrite is an all-in-one community management and engagement platform. Our mission is to provide organizations with the tools they need to create impactful communities.

Our SaaS platform serves customers across a variety of industries including higher education, non-profit, and corporate. Founded in 2015, today we count more than 900 customers worldwide - including Boeing, the Obama Foundation, the National Academy of Sciences, the University of Notre Dame, the U.S. Naval Academy, the British Heart Foundation, the Imperial College London, the P&G Alumni France, and Le Wagon Alumni.

We employ over 170 people across our entities in Paris, New York, the UK, and Sydney, and 30+ nationalities are represented in our team! 🌍

At Hivebrite, we believe in the importance of balancing your work commitments and personal life. You’re able to have a real impact on meaningful communities while prioritizing your personal life and goals. Our work policy encourages a healthy work-life harmony with a flexible schedule.We also have many initiatives to keep our global team connected, offering opportunities to meet and socialize with team members virtually and in-person! 👋

For these reasons, we were awarded Best Hybrid Place to Work by BuiltIn in the US and Choose My Company and HappyIndex at Work in France last year! 🏆

Find out everything about us here!

Jump aboard, and join the hive! 🚀

🌟🌟🌟 Your Role Will Be

• We are looking for someone capable to build and scale the services powering our interactive web application. 🦝
• Some context? Well, we are starting to export some services outside from our good old friend "Monolith". 🏰
• Why? Isolate the services which need to be scaled. (performance and volume issues).
• Also, we go to API First to get closer to our customers and to isolate our frontend/backend. You know the drill! 😘
• Your future squad → User Journey Tribe is dedicated to build new features to improve the user journey, craft proof of concepts on new projects that focus on the user experience. They are responsible for the front-office and public-office, and their features: LiveFeed, Search, etc.
  
  

🌟 Your Mission Will Be

• Practice disciplined software engineering (e.g. automated testing, code reviews, and writing efficiency code).
• Develop integrations with 3rd party software programs (Webhooks, API, deep integrations).
• Design, develop, test and implement new product features.
• We want from you that you try new things. POC is a cool word :)
• Be a leader on sharing knowledge.
• Animate and debate during architecture reviews, find a common ground and deliver the solution.
  
  

Our stack 👉 https://stackshare.io/hivebrite/hivebrite

🌟 You Might Be a Fit If

• Experience programming in RoR. 🚂
• Programming experience in Golang is also a big plus.
• Experience working on backend systems at a large-scale internet service.
• Track record of designing and implementing complex and scalable software services.
• Experience architecting, deploying and operating asynchronous work queues, high-volume storage systems, and high-throughput systems.
• Docker has no secret for you.
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced, collaborative, and high-growth environment.
• You have a great oral and written communication in English. 🇺🇸
  

🌟 RECRUITMENT PROCESS

• Meet Ruben, our Tech Recruiter, for a first video-call to better understand your career plan and answer any of your questions (60 mins).
• Meeting with Samy (Engineering Manager) and Valentin (Software Engineer) to discuss performance issues, product-driven approach and some RoR patterns (60 mins).
• Meet 2 Senior Backend Engineers to discuss around a technical architecture review exercise (60 mins).
• Meet Tarek, our CPTO, to speak about your long-term involvement with Hivebrite (60 mins).
  
  

🌟hivebrite's Perks & Benefits

• Work-Life balance:
  
  

Remote Work

• A really flexible remote policy detailed here 🏡
• Nomad days policy (work from somewhere else between 1 and 12 weeks per year) - check out the full policy here ✈️
  
  

Family Time

• 2 months of paid leaves for the second care-giver 👨‍🍼
• Up to 5 days off for parents with sick kids per year 🤒
• Up to 3 days off per year to spend quality time with your kids 👶
• A special family plan with extra leaves for certain situations 🏠
• Around two weeks of RTT to enjoy more time off with your friends and familly 🏝
  
  

Chill & Care Time

• A paid day off for your birthday 🎉
• A paid volunteer day : volunteer for a cause that you care about during a paid day off 🌱
• Support for mental health via Moka Care (sessions paid by Hivebrite, collective sophrology sessions, etc.) 💆
• Office life:
  
  

Our Offices

• Morning's office in the center of Paris with a rooftop just for us!
• Pool 🎱, foosball ⚽️, and a gym room 🏋️
• International team: you will easily hear 3 different languages in the same conversation 🌍
  
  

Events

• Team building with dedicated budget for events every month with your team and yearly with your entire department 🎉
• Squads days for our engineering team: two days per month we meet at the office 💡
• Recurring events to gather together and spend fun times 🥳
  
  

The Growth

• Internal mobility and professional training to support your career 🚀
• Personalized well-being and growth follow up 📈
• Your Employee Journey detailed here 🍃
• Check out our instagram page here to discover our team and this page, to know more about us 📷
• On the financial side:
  
  

Legal Benefits, But More Better

• Alan: Covering and insurance package boosted (extra for vision, dental care, alternative medicines,...) 🩺
• For Paris employees, 100% of your Navigo Pass reimburse 🚇
• Lunch vouchers with Swile 🥧
• CSE advantages with Swile 🎁
  
  

About Your Work

• A 200€ remote equipment allowance to build your work-from-home starter kit (desk, chair, etc…) 🖥️
• The latest Apple’s equipment 🍏
• A competitive salary package - we constantly ensure that we're aligned with the market 🤝
  
  

If you want to know everything you need about Hivebrite, check out our Welcome To The Jungle page : here!

Additional Information

• Contract Type: Full-Time
• Location: Paris
• Possible partial remote