Staff Python Engineer

🕒 May 6

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Dailymotion

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2005

📱 Media

👥 B2C

💰 $25M Series C on 2009-10

Media • B2C

Dailymotion is a video-sharing technology platform that allows users to search, upload, and view videos. Often compared to platforms like YouTube, it offers a wide array of content including news, short films, music videos, sports highlights, and more. Founded in 2005, Dailymotion is based in France and provides users worldwide with an engaging multimedia experience. The platform supports advertisers and developers who wish to utilize its video technology for various applications.

📋 Description

• Technical leadership • Define and drive the technical strategy for migrating our Core Domains by faithfully reproducing our custom PHP framework in Python using FastAPI • Own architectural decisions to ensure a progressive, non-disruptive migration: controlled code duplication, gradual traffic shift from the old stack to the new • Design the patterns and abstractions required so the new Python framework is functionally equivalent to the old one while meeting modern standards • Establish technical standards and best practices for decommissioning legacy systems • Mentor and upskill a backend squad specialized in the migration • Collaborate with other squad leads to ensure coherent platform evolution • Drive technical decision-making and resolve the most complex architectural challenges • Foster a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement • Ensure functional parity between the old and new stacks: data stored in the old system must be accessible identically in the new system

🎯 Requirements

• Python expertise: You have deep mastery of Python, including architecture, algorithms, and design patterns (SOLID, DDD, hexagonal architecture...). You know how to design Python systems that are performant, maintainable, and scalable. • Experience with high-availability, high-performance, and scalability challenges: You have designed or operated systems under heavy load and understand the implications for architectural choices, concurrency management, and optimization. • Expertise in distributed systems and microservices: You understand the associated challenges: data consistency, resilience, observability, and inter-service communication patterns. • API design proficiency: RESTful, GraphQL, backward compatibility, and versioning. • Experience with large-scale migration or modernization projects: You have led or actively participated in transforming legacy systems, ideally in the context of progressive migration (strangler fig pattern or similar approaches). • Technical leadership: You have previously managed teams or led technically complex projects. • Fluent English: Required to operate in our international environment.

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work options