Senior Backend Engineer – Innovate

🕒 April 13

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Yubo

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2015

👥 B2C

📱 Media

💰 $47.5M Series C - Yubo on 2020-11

B2C • Media

Yubo is a Gen Z–focused social networking app that helps users discover and make new friends through real-time chats, live video and interest-based interactions. The platform emphasizes authentic, peer-to-peer socializing (not algorithm-driven feeds) and includes safety and moderation features such as age verification and tools like SafeBlur to protect younger users. Yubo is consumer-facing and positioned as a social media destination for casual connection and community discovery.

📋 Description

• Design and deliver backend capabilities from specs to production rollout/rollback. • Define and instrument success metrics with cross-functional partners. • Iterate quickly based on experiment results (KPIs, dashboards, quantitative signals). • Build resilient, scalable, and cost-efficient systems adapted to high-risk experimentation. • Diagnose and fix complex production issues using logs, metrics, and observability tools. • Anticipate operational impact (deployment, rollback, monitoring, cost). • Strengthen team-level best practices and reusable patterns. • Contribute to documentation, RFCs, and internal usability of squad-owned systems. • Mentor peers through code reviews and pairing; mentorship is a plus, not mandatory.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of backend experience, ideally in startup/scale-up environments. • Proficient in Node.js and TypeScript. • Solid experience designing APIs (performance, security, observability). • Worked with event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS). • Apply strong engineering best practices (testing, code quality, resilience). • Product mindset and enjoy collaborating closely with Product. • Comfortable working in English in an international environment. • Experience in scalable architecture design (nice to have). • Experience mentoring peers (nice to have).

🏖️ Benefits

• A highly competitive salary range as well as equity in the company • A highly flexible remote work policy, 2 days at the office per month, with monthly team events. • We also cover fees for external professional events and meetups (Android Makers, etc…) • Great health insurance coverage for both you and your family by Alan, fully paid for by Yubo ! • Numerous benefits for parents: additional parental leave, easy access to nurseries and daycare facilities in France. • Comprehensive health insurance, wellness programs, sports classes, and mental well-being initiatives