Senior Backend Developer

Happydemics is hiring!

About

What if advertising strategies were more profitable for both ad players and consumers?

Happydemics empowers advertising players worldwide to precisely measure the ROI of their campaigns. Utilizing a unified methodology and cutting-edge technologies, we streamline performance measurement and campaign optimization.

As the trusted partner of thousands of players globally, our SaaS delivers key analytics in a privacy-friendly environment, setting a new standard in advertising effectiveness.

Job Description

You will join our 16-teammates Engineering team, and more specifically, our newly created Broadcasting feature team. You’ll work alongside Anatoly, our Expert Backend Developer, to develop, deploy, and maintain features related to the broadcasting of our surveys across the digital advertising ecosystem. You will help ensure our architecture is scalable, reliable, and capable of supporting future growth while delivering high-performance solutions.

Your missions 👩‍🚀

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services, ensuring high performance and availability.

  • Build and manage relational databases using MySQL, optimizing database performance for scalability.

  • Develop and maintain secure, well-documented RESTful APIs, ensuring seamless integration with frontend and third-party services.

  • Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including frontend developers, Product Managers, and DevOps, to ensure cohesive development and deployment.

  • Implement shift-left security practices by integrating security checks early in the development lifecycle and following best practices for secure coding.

  • Write and maintain automated tests (from unit to end-to-end level) to ensure high-quality code, minimizing bugs and regressions.

  • Participate in the CI/CD process, working with DevOps to streamline deployment and monitor production systems.

  • Review colleagues PR, providing constructive feedback and ensuring adherence to coding standards, with an emphasis on security and performance.

  • Mentor junior developers and contribute to team knowledge sharing, fostering a culture of collaboration, growth, and innovation.

The advantages ⭐️

  • Full-remote-first and English-first squads

  • Flexible work schedule with a result-oriented culture.

  • Join a solid tech product and a healthy, break-even business with impressive growth.

  • Collaborate with a team of experienced and passionate developers.

Our (current) Stack 🛠

DevOps:

  • AWS, Terraform Cloud

  • RubyOnRail and MySQL

  • Python

  • Go

  • CI and CD on GitHub Actions

  • React

Tools:

  • Sentry

  • Datadog

  • Metabase

  • Cypress

See detailed stack here

Preferred Experience

Hard skills 👩‍💻

  • 5+ years Backend professional experience.

  • 2+ years of solid experience building, optimizing, and scaling backend applications using Ruby and Ruby on Rails.

  • Expertise in designing, querying, and optimizing MySQL databases for performance and scalability.

  • Experiences in the AdTech ecosystem is a plus.

  • Strong knowledge of designing, developing, and securing RESTful APIs, ensuring seamless integration with various frontend and third-party systems.

  • Hands-on experience with writing and maintaining automated tests ensuring code quality and reliability.

  • Experience working with CI/CD tools and processes, particularly for automating deployment and monitoring production systems.

Soft skills 🫱🏿‍🫲🏼

  • Know, share and apply coding best practices and guidelines

  • Reactive, resourceful, passionate

  • English efficient (oral and written)

  • Autodidact or graduate from an Engineering school / Master of Informatics

  • Good communication and synthetics skills

  • Autonomous and meticulous

Recruitment Process

  1. a first visio interview with our CTO

  2. a technical interview with our Expert Backend Developers, Anatoly and Alexandre

  3. a live technical exercice

  4. a last interview with one of our partners and our HR

Additional Information

  • Contract Type: Full-Time
  • Start Date: 01 September 2025
  • Location: Paris
  • Education Level: Master's Degree
  • Experience: > 5 years
  • Possible full remote