Senior Software Engineer – Python (x/f/m)
Senior backend Python engineer joining Doctolib's platform team, building the internal chassis, project archetypes, business-agnostic services and cross-cutting concerns (resilience, security, observability) used by 60+ internal services. Core stack is Python with Kafka, Kubernetes, and Java/Kotlin exposure.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Paris, France
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Primarily a backend engineer with expert knowledge of Python
- Solid understanding of web technologies and software development life cycle
- Proactive, curious, collaborative and eager to learn
- User-first mindset; secure, well-tested and pragmatic code
- Fluent in English
Nice to have
- Experience with Kafka and Kubernetes
- Experience with ADK and ML libraries
- Experience with Java or Kotlin
Full description
We are looking for a Python Senior Software Engineer to join the ATP team in Application Platform Domain.
As a Senior Software Engineer, your mission will be to work on designing and delivering essential components that empower Doctolib teams to build robust and scalable services. You will be working in a feature team developing the chassis, archetypes, business-agnostic services, cross-cutting concerns and Claude Plugins.
You will be working in a platform feature team developing the Python and Java/Kotlin chassis, project archetypes, business-agnostic services, cross-cutting concerns (resilience, security, observability…) and Claude Plugins, used by more than 60 services across Doctolib.
Working in the tech team at Doctolib involves building innovative products and features to improve the daily lives of care teams and patients. We work in feature teams in an agile environment, while collaborating with product, design, and business teams.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define and implement features to improve the Doctolib platform
- Take a leading role within the team and contribute to establishing a technical vision that ensures the performance, security, and usability of the platform, taking into account the future needs and the high scalability needs
- Bring your expertise and experiences to help us continuously improve the way we implement, test, and monitor high-quality features
- Improving the performance of key features implemented in Python, sometimes completely challenging the status quo
- Taking leadership on delivering roadmap items (together with the team)
- Contributing to establishing a technical vision and co-drive the creation of the roadmap for next quarters
About our tech environment
Our solutions are built on a single fully cloud-native platform that supports web and mobile app interfaces, multiple languages, and is adapted to the country and healthcare specialty requirements. To address these challenges, we are modularizing our platform run in a distributed architecture through reusable components.
Our stack is composed of Rails, TypeScript, Java, Python, Kotlin, Swift, and React Native.
We leverage AI ethically across our products to empower patients and health professionals. Discover our AI vision here!
Who you are
- You are proactive, curious, collaborative and eager to learn
- You are primarily a backend engineer with expert knowledge of Python
- You have a solid understanding of web technologies and software development life cycle
- You have a “user first” mindset and want to build a product focused on bringing value to its users, through secure, well-tested and pragmatic code