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# Senior Back-end Engineer

- **Company:** ScorePlay
- **Location:** Paris, France
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Code Review, Data Stores, PostgreSQL, Message Broker, Transcoding, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Live Streaming, OpenSearch, Golang
- **Published:** October 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en/companies/scoreplay-inc/jobs/senior-back-end-engineer_paris

## About the Role

* 5+ years of backend experience, with at least 1 year working in Go in production. You know what it takes to keep systems fast and reliable under real load.
 * Solid experience with web architectures, event-driven systems and data-heavy applications. You've designed systems, not only contributed to them, and you can defend your architectural choices and trade-offs.
 * Strong ownership: you take subjects from ambiguity to shipped, and you care about what happens after deploy.
 * Remote from Europe, with a remote-first culture and regular team gatherings.
 * Bonus: startup experience, or time spent on video or media infrastructure. Ingest pipelines, transcoding, live streaming, high traffic or storage at scale.

## Description

We're hiring a senior backend engineer to lead technical subjects across the platform, which is a rare kind of ownership. You'd set the technical direction of your squad end to end: architecting the systems that process 145M+ minutes of video a month, shaping the roadmap and structural decisions directly with Engineering Leadership, and shipping features that land in the hands of major sports organizations within weeks, not quarters. No layers, and no committees. You design it, you build it, the biggest names in sports use it.

What you'll work on

Our clients produce enormous amounts of media every week, and our platform is where all of it lives. Some of the backend problems we tackle include:

 * Letting users search massive amount of media by asking questions in plain language, instead of digging through tags
 * Processing video fast enough to matter during a live match
 * Automating work that entire teams still do by hand today

Your day to day:

 * Lead subjects end to end, from design to production, and run what you ship
 * Write and defend RFCs when a decision is structural: a new datastore, a message broker, a third-party service
 * Co-design features with your product manager and technical leadership, and push back on product decisions when you disagree
 * Help the engineers around you level up, through code reviews, pairing and mentoring

The stack and how we work

Golang for services. PostgreSQL, Kafka, Temporal for workflows, OpenSearch, Kubernetes, all on AWS. We use AI heavily (but wisely), in the product and in how we work as engineers.

Cross-functional feature teams own their scope from conception to production. Structural decisions go through RFCs. Every week, the whole engineering team gets together to present and debate technical subjects.