Senior Back end Developer - PHP & Python

Questel

Your missions

- You are a technical reference for the team and a trusted partner of the Engineering

- Manager on the evolution of our trademark search engines.

- Lead the transformation of our architecture to make it more maintainable and more performant.

- Improve the relevance, performance and scalability of similarity searches over a database of more than 200 million trademarks.

- Maintain and evolve the existing search stack, which relies on PHP and Manticore,while moving new developments to Python and Go.

- Assess and gradually introduce new technologies, such as Elasticsearch, Kubernetes,big data, machine learning and LLMs.

- Set the standard for quality code: tested, well structured and documented, and help the team reach it through code reviews.

- Use AI-assisted development tools to work faster and better, while keeping full ownership of the result.

- Investigate complex production issues by digging into logs and metrics, and propose lasting fixes.

- Take part in Agile rituals and technical discussions with the distributed team.

Technical skills

- Back-end development in Python and Go, or willing to learn.

- PHP, as we will keep working with the existing code base.

- Docker and CI/CD knowledge.

- AI-assisted development.

- You produce quality code that is tested, well structured and documented.

Languages

English: professional level (written and spoken), for daily work with distributed teams.

Soft skills

Autonomy and rigor: you propose optimizations to our architecture to improve maintainability and performance, and carry topics from start to finish.

Analytical and investigative mindset: you enjoy digging into logs and metrics to solve problems.

Team spirit and collaboration: you don't stay in your corner, you share your successes and difficulties, and you embrace a blameless mentality.

Curiosity and adaptability: you like learning new things, you are not afraid of new languages, and you can read and understand code written by other developers.

Communication and influence: you can explain technical choices clearly and help the team and the Engineering Manager reach good decisions.

What will set you apart

For where we are heading

- Go

- ElasticSearch

- RabbitMQ/Redis

- Kubernetes

- Big data

- Machine learning

- LLMs

To understand our existing stack

- Manticore Search

- Sphinx