Senior Backend Software Engineer

Summary

Join Contentsquare as a Senior Backend Engineer in our Voice of Customer unit and help build and evolve tools for collecting qualitative user feedback. You will primarily work on Python microservices, contributing to services in Node/TypeScript or React-based frontend. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of Python experience, strong SQL foundations, and experience with Kubernetes, AWS, and OpenSearch. This role offers remote work flexibility in France, Italy, or Spain, or hybrid options in Paris, Milan, or Barcelona. Contentsquare provides competitive benefits, including generous paid time off, parental leave, wellbeing allowances, stock options, and various employee resource groups.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience with Python
• Strong foundations in SQL; familiarity with PostgreSQL is a plus
• Exposure to or willingness to learn Node.js / TypeScript
• Experience with Kubernetes, AWS, OpenSearch is a strong advantage
• You value code quality, clarity, and performance
• You think in terms of user impact and business value, not just technical goals
• You are proactive, autonomous, and comfortable owning features end-to-end
• You communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• You’re a team player who enjoys collaborating and sharing feedback, putting ego aside

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve the backend services behind our Voice of Customer products (Surveys, Interviews, User Tests)
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code primarily in Python
• Contribute to architectural decisions to improve scalability, performance, and reliability
• Collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering peers to deliver impactful features
• Optionally contribute to services in Node/TypeScript and to the React frontend
• Take active part in product discussions, helping us shape our product strategy
• Take ownership of significant projects or components, breaking them into iterative deliverables
• Help define and improve best practices around testing, observability, and maintainability
• Support continuous improvement of our engineering culture and team dynamics

Benefits

• Virtual onboarding, Hackathon, and various opportunities to interact with your team and global colleagues both on and offsite each year
• Work flexibility: hybrid and remote work policies
• Generous paid time-off policy (every location is different)
• Immediate eligibility for birthing and non-birthing parental leave
• Wellbeing and Home Office allowances
• A Culture Crew in every country we’re based in to coordinate regular activities for employees to get to know each other and bond outside of work
• Every full-time employee receives stock options, allowing them to share in the company’s success
• We have multiple Employee Resource Groups, that offer a safe space for individuals who share common identities, life experiences, or allyship to connect, support one another, and passionately advocate for the issues close to their hearts
• And more benefits tailored to each country