Platform Software Engineer (senior/staff level)
Joko · Remote · Paris · Barcelona ·
COMPENSATION
€76k – €175k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Senior/Staff level
- Remote (France/Spain)
- AWS Serverless
- Equity included
- English required
Join Joko’s Engineering team to shape the platform strategy as the first dedicated senior engineer in this domain. You will transform distributed infrastructure efforts into a cohesive, reliable system that enables faster and safer product delivery.
The team collaborates closely with Product to innovate on an AI-driven shopping assistant used by millions. You will drive technical leadership while improving observability, security, and internal tooling.
What you'll do
- Own end-to-end production infrastructure, focusing on resilience, capacity, and cost efficiency.
- Centralize logging and alerts to define system health and create a sustainable on-call process.
- Implement security best practices including access management, secrets handling, and release hardening.
- Enhance developer workflows by improving build, test, and release processes for higher quality.
- Develop AI-powered internal tools and automation to increase team execution capacity.
- Define the platform roadmap and provide technical mentorship across engineering teams.
What you'll need
- At least five years of software engineering experience with a focus on platform or infrastructure.
- Proven track record operating high-traffic production systems with strong reliability standards.
- Strong foundation in writing clean, testable, and maintainable code for platform solutions.
- Experience making pragmatic architectural decisions balancing latency, reliability, and cloud costs.
- Solid understanding of infrastructure security, including IAM, least privilege, and hardening.
- Fluent in written and spoken English; French is not required.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code and modern deployment patterns.
- Experience with AWS serverless architectures.
- Product-minded approach to performance metrics and user experience.
Stack
- AWS
- CoderPad
- AI tools
How you'll work
- Remote-friendly for residents of France and Spain.
- Paris-based employees may choose office or home work freely.
- Non-Paris employees receive coworking space access and budget.
- Work from most countries worldwide for up to three months per year.
What you get
- Top-market compensation package.
- Equity opportunities for all employees.
- Half-day weekly dedicated to AI skill development.
- Yearly offsite events and monthly in-person gatherings.
- Contribution to ClassPass subscription.
- Eight weeks of fully paid leave for second parents.
Hiring process
- Introductory screening call with Hiring Manager or Talent team.
- 45-minute team interview with two Joko members.
- 90-minute live technical interview on CoderPad covering code and system design.
- 45-minute leadership conversation with SteerCo member and Founder.
- Up to three reference calls with former colleagues or managers.