Requirements: English
Company: Harnham
Region: Paris , le-de-France
LEAD DEV BACK END - PYTHON DEVELOPER
PARIS (75)
70-90K
PYTHON - DJANGO - FASTAPI - DEVOPS
This innovative and fast-growing company is developing a high-impact solution. Their flagship product, a mobile application used directly by end customers is currently undergoing major technical structuring.
YOUR ROLE
- Code reviews and defining/improving backend processes
- Providing technical leadership for the backend team (without HR responsibilities)
- Hands-on management of three backend developers
- Contributing to technical architecture decisions alongside the CTO, Head of Engineering, and Product Manager
- Participating in the team structuring strategy, including future recruitment of individual contributors
- Actively developing new backend features
- Ensuring application quality, performance, and stability
- Sharing best development practices, offering technical mentorship, and supporting junior developers
YOUR PROFILE
- Minimum 56 years of backend development experience, including work with Python APIs
- Strong expertise in Django (at least 2 years in a production environment) OR FastAPI
- Good understanding of performance challenges, particularly real-time requirements
- Experience in a scale-up or startup environment
- Ability to contribute to architectural decisions, codebase structuring, and process definition
- Strong team spirit and passion for knowledge sharing
- Natural leadership and a proactive mindset
- Rigorous, autonomous, and technically curious
- Strong interpersonal skills to collaborate with product, tech, and business teams
- Degree in a technical field (e.g., engineering school such as EPITA, Epitech, etc.) is a plus
- Good command of both French and English, written and spoken