Senior Software Engineer - Data

Botify’s leading agentic AI search technology and seasoned experts ensure every brand has the power to be found, both in traditional and AI search. With one powerful platform, brands achieve visibility, relevance, and greater control across Google, Bing, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and more.

Botify’s technology powers agentic workflows, AI-driven recommendations, and automated cross-platform indexation and deployment. Brands maximize visibility wherever consumers, bots, and AI agents search, protecting and capturing revenue across all search platforms.

Trusted by 500+ leading brands including Macy’s, Levi’s, Farfetch, the New York Times, and Marks & Spencer, Botify drives digital discovery, sustained profitability, productivity, and brand authority in an AI-first world.

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About Engineering at Botify

At Botify, our Engineering team builds and scales the technologies that help the world’s largest websites improve their visibility in Search Engines or AI search results. We tackle complex challenges—like crawling, rendering, and indexing websites with millions of pages—while analyzing and combining diverse datasets. Our goal is to make it easier for users to implement effective SEO strategies through powerful, reliable, and easy-to-use tools.

Our platform analyses and delivers data at a rare scale. Every day, we process over 600,000 tasks, consuming more than 500 instances, and maintain a database with over 17 billion lines. We render 150 million web pages daily and serve 100 million pages to search engine bots, powered by a hybrid architecture combining cloud and bare-metal systems to balance performance with cost efficiency.

We are actively developing agentic tools to streamline Botify usage and equip every user with advanced technical skills, enabling them to navigate technical tasks with ease. Our platform integrates multiple datasets from technical SEO, search engine crawls, user visits, and search engine rankings, providing automated recommendations, alerts, and optimizations such as pre-redening, content enhancement and linking improvements.

In the Engineering Department, we foster a culture that empowers engineers with the freedom to innovate. This autonomy is balanced with a strong sense of responsibility and a commitment to excellence. Our team thrives on collaboration and cross-functional cooperation, promoting a consultative approach over traditional top-down management. This environment encourages open communication and collective problem-solving, driving our success and continuous improvement.

If you’re looking for a place where your work has strong impact, and where your voice matters, we’d love to discuss with you.

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Role Overview

Your Role:

• Drive and evolve the data architecture at large, evaluate and propose technologies, challenge existing designs, and specify improvements.
• Solve technical challenges to meet our business goals with scalability, maintenance and budget considerations
• Work closely with fellow engineers through code reviews, daily standups, chapters, and technical committees.
• Collaborate with Product to shape specifications that set projects up for success.
• Estimate and measure project costs and performances, ensuring efficient use of budget.

Your qualification:

• 5 years+ as a Back-end Engineer 
• Experience with data pipelines and large-scale data processing.
• Proficiency in Python, and Go is a plus.
• Strong skills in SQL, the knowledge of BigQuery is a plus.
• Ability to understand and map data to business needs, knowledge in SEO is a plus.
• Experience with infrastructure or third-party cost evaluation and resource management.
• Proven ability to work autonomously, identify and drive improvements. Thus, we expect strong communication and collaboration skills.
  
• Fluent in French and proficient in English 

Hiring Process

• 30' TA Phone Screen
• 45' Technical Phone Screen
• 60' Live Coding
• 60' Systems Design
• 30' CTO Interview

What we offer:

To keep our employees happy and motivated, we are always assessing the benefits/perks we offer to ensure we are competitive. Here are some we’d like to highlight:

• Location: brand new offices in the center of Paris (12 rue d’Amsterdam, straight out of Gare Saint-Lazare)
• Hybrid remote policy
• Attractive Remuneration Package with BSPCE (for Permanent full-time role - CDI)
• Fun office culture & regular outings such as Team Off-Sites, Annual Kick-Off, Quaterly Team Lunch, Thirsty Thursdays etc. 
• Lunch vouchers, 50% of transportation reimbursement, fitness classes, generous CSE advantages etc. 
• Compelling growth perspectives 

Start date: as soon as possible

In addition to the skills and experience we are looking for, our ideal candidate would embody our core values:

Empower Customers. Unleash Potential.

Learn Fast. Progress Faster.

Go the Extra Mile. It’s Never Crowded.

Work Hard. Stay Humble.

Be Bold. Be You.

Botify is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.