Senior/Staff Python Engineer

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. 

Earlier this year we have acquired Orbiit, an innovative started who created a matchmaking algorithm with AI and Machine Learning to deepen community engagement and drive member retention for organizations across sectors.

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! 🏆

Jump aboard, and join the hive! 🚀

🌟 YOUR ROLE WILL BE

As Senior Engineer you will take significant, open-ended segments of our Python backend and transform them into resilient, scalable systems.

Your primary objectives will be to keep developing Orbiit as a stand-alone product but also ensuring its integration within the Hivebrite solution

You'll be iterating on features, prototyping solutions, and refining them to enterprise standards.

You'll work independently and collaboratively to drive initiatives to full completion without any support. This is a senior-level position suited for professionals who have thrived in fast-growing companies and are excited to build an elite engineering culture.

🌟 YOUR MISSION WILL BE

Building, testing, and maintaining our data processing services using Python, contributing to the efficiency and effectiveness of our platform

Building and improving our matching algorithms and systems

Developing new algorithms optimized for real-time recommendations.

🌟 YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF

Minimum 10 years of software engineering experience

8+ years of Python experience in production systems

3+ years of experience in a startup between 10-100 employees

Experience with GCP (ideal) or AWS in production environments

Extensive experience with MongoDB or No-SQL databases

Experience with PyTorch in production environments

🌟 NICE TO HAVE

Experience with React and GraphQL

You already have an entrepreneurial experience

🌟 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 Luuk (Engineering Manager) to talk about the current tech challenges, the team and the way we work. There will also be a live coding exercice (60 mins).

Meet 2 Senior Backend Engineers to tackle a technical architecture review exercise (90 mins).

Meet Tarek, our CPTO, to speak about your long-term involvement with us (60 mins).

🌟HIVEBRITE'S PERKS & BENEFITS:

Work-Life balance: 

- Support for mental health via Moka Care (sessions paid by Hivebrite, collective sophrology sessions, etc.) 💆

- A Gymlib access for you to practice any physical activity you want 💪

- A really flexible remote policy detailed here 🏡

- Around two weeks of RTT to enjoy more time off with your friends and familly 🏝

- Paid leaves for parents with sick kids 🤒

- Nomad days policy (work from almost anywhere you'd like, up to 12 weeks per year, at once or throughout the year) - check out the full policy here ✈️

Office life: 

- International team - you will easily hear 3 different languages in the same conversation 🌍

- Morning’s office in the center of Paris with a rooftop just for us! 

- Squads days for our engineering team - two days per month we meet at the office 💡

- Team building with dedicated budget for events every month with your team and yearly with your entire department 🎉

- Internal mobility and professional training to support your career 🚀

- Check out our instagram page here to discover our team and this page, to know more about us  📷

- Your Employee Journey detailed here 🍃

On the financial side: 

- Of course, all the mandatory benefits, but with the best companies to support you (Alan, lunch vouchers with Swile, etc.) 

- CSE advantages with Swile 🎁

- A competitive salary package - we constantly ensure that we're aligned with the market  🤝

- A 500€ remote equipment allowance and a work-from-home starter kit (desk, chair, etc…) 🖥️

- The latest Apple’s equipment 🍏