Prelude - Senior Backend Engineer (Go)

• Today, we're a team of 60 and growing, based in Paris, building products that power secure and high-performance user onboarding for companies across the world. We believe small, highly skilled teams outperform large, fragmented organizations, and we are intentional about staying focused on impact, quality, and speed. • We operate with a flat org structure and value in-person collaboration, which helps ideas move faster, decisions stay grounded, and teams take full ownership of what they build.Our values • Our values • CareWe care deeply about our customers, our teammates, and the quality and reliability of what we ship. • Bias for ActionWe move fast, test in the real world, and iterate quickly rather than over-optimizing in theory. • Bias for Action • OwnershipWe take responsibility end to end, from identifying problems to delivering outcomes and learning from results. • Ownership • What will you be doing? • Building and scaling a distributed system using Go, DynamoDB, SQS, Redshift and Lambdas • Building a snappy full-stack app using cutting-edge tech (including Next on Vercel, gRPC) • Working on the next version of the Prelude API, which we strive to be industry-leading in terms of usability, performance and functionality • Ensuring that our services are scalable, extensible, reliable, and performant • Helping deploy and scale our fraud prevention model to hundreds of large customers • Developing and maintaining internal tools to improve developer efficiency • Interacting with clients on a daily basis to assist them and build features around their needs • Participating in on-call rotations to guarantee the stability and reliability of our APIs • What are we looking for? • Years of experience designing and engineering large-scale systems • Strong coding skills in Go - any experience with Rust, TypeScript or similar is a huge plus • A preference for simplicity vs complexity, with intuition for what will scale effectively • A product led mindset, keen to code for the output and the impact • Fluent/professional English given our international team • Any experience building frontends with modern frameworks like React or Vue is another huge plus • Competitive compensation package with BSPCEs • 3 days in-office in central Paris, with 2 days WFH; and 4 weeks of remote work per year • 100% travel to the office subsidised • Health insurance via Alan • Urban Sports Club gym membership • We will provide you with the gear you need for your role (a laptop and a phone, for on-call rotations) • Swile meal vouchers • Free snacks and drinks in the office • An annual offsite in a great location (last one was at La Pradet!)