Backend Python Software Engineer

The Identity and Access Management team (IAM) builds and maintains the technical infrastructure that connects enterprise identity providers to the LumApps platform. We design provisioning services that synchronize user identities and access rights from Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace, Okta, and custom SCIM implementations, ensuring seamless and secure user provisioning across distributed systems. Our systems operate at scale, processing and reconciling hundreds of thousands to millions of user profiles across global deployments.

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Missions

Contribute to architecture decisions and technical design.

• Develop and maintain scalable, reliable features.
• Participate in code reviews and continuously improve best practices.
• Deploy, Monitor, debug, and optimize services in production.
• Work closely with other engineers, product, design and operations teams to create solutions that meet business requirements, follow engineering best practices and integrate well in our product.

We are looking for a strong Senior Backend Developer, with a strong sense of ownership and autonomy who can own the full production chain: design, architecture, development, testing, deployment, delivery and maintenance.

• Proficiency in Python or strong experience with other high-level programming languages.
• Solid software engineering foundations: clean code, maintainability, testing, scalability.
• Proven experience in designing and building microservices architectures
• Strong practical knowledge of Kubernetes and containerization (Docker) in a production environment.
• Experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB).
• Ability to collaborate effectively in a team and lead technical projects.

Valued Assets

• Understanding of Authentication/Authorization protocols (SAML, OAuth2, OIDC).
• Familiarity with observability tools for distributed systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK stack).

Our tech environment

• SaaS product.
• Microservice architecture
• Back-end: Python3, Gunicorn, Flask, pytest, pubsub
• Databases: PostgreSQL, Redis, MySQL.
• Hosting: GCP & Azure.

LumApps is now more than just an Employee Experience Platform - it is an AI-powered Employee Hub that supports companies in their digital transformation of communication, collaboration, and engagement with their customers, partners, and above all their employees. Our platform is a proven leader in this dynamic market with a truly unique vision and product. It has been deployed by Fortune 500 clients around the world and is delivering meaningful business benefits. LumApps is identified as a leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Intranet Packaged Solutions as well as in Intranets Forrester Wave, and regularly selected for the French Tech Next40/120 program. In 2025, LumApps strengthened its leadership position by partnering with Beekeeper, a pioneer in frontline employee experience solutions. This strategic collaboration expands our reach and impact across all types of workers - from HQ to the frontline. Our mission: To make people feel that they belong and have a purpose. To create an environment where all employees are engaged and work together towards the same goal. Over 700 leading companies trust our solution to: Improve the productivity of their teams with our AI-powered Collaborative Experience Platform integrated with both Google and Microsoft collaborative suites, Transform employees into real ambassadors of their company, Make employees more efficient and better connected to their peers and relevant information, regardless of their location, with the tools and information they need at their fingertips, Help companies reduce turnover, accelerate employee onboarding, better collaborate and share knowledge, and even improve their customer experiences. With a team of over 600 Lumies spread across 11 offices (Lyon, Paris, Lille, Sophia Antipolis, London, Barcelona, Hamburg, Austin, Tokyo, Zurich, Krakow), we support large enterprises all around the world. Over the past year, we have been driving an ambitious phase in our journey under the impulse of our new shareholder Bridgepoint, aimed at propelling us to become the clear leader in our market and shine worldwide in our industry. We are looking for individuals who are excited to actively participate in this transformation.