Software Engineer

Our Engineering teams

As a Software Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to apply your skills across a wide range of cutting-edge technical challenges and impactful projects. Depending on your expertise and interests, you could contribute to one of the following key areas:

1. Tech: Collaborate with the Product team to innovate on Joko’s user-facing products and shape the future of the online shopping experience, taking full ownership from conception to deployment. You will tackle complex engineering challenges such as developing AI-powered shopping assistants or crafting scalable algorithms that are capable of extracting, structuring, and leveraging massive quantities of data from all e-commerce sites worldwide.

2. Operations: Support all teams at Joko by designing and implementing software solutions that enhance efficiency at scale. You will work on projects like building the customer support stack to solve our users’ problems, improving fraud detection mechanisms, or creating AI assistants to optimize team operations.

What you will do

At Joko, we believe in ownership and versatility. You will take complete ownership of your projects, steering them from the initial blueprint to their deployment in production, ensuring excellence and innovation at every turn. We aim to assemble versatile teams of engineers, not confined to narrow specialties (e.g., mobile development, ML engineering, infrastructure, etc.). We seek individuals with broad technical skills, capable of applying their knowledge to tackle complex, multi-domain engineering challenges. As a Software Engineer, your responsibilities will include:

• Software design & development: Translate product visions or operational needs into robust software architectures, implementing them across our stack to ensure an exceptional user experience.

• Technical exploration & problem-solving: Dive into challenging technical problems, often involving new and undefined areas, using innovative approaches to develop practical solutions.

• Deployment & impact monitoring: Take projects from development to deployment, collaborating with Product and Data teams to monitor their impact.

• Technical leadership: Mentor junior engineers, review technical specs and code, and steer technical discussions.

• Strategic collaboration: Work closely with the Product and Operations teams to align technical projects with company goals.

• Process & tool enhancement: Continuously evaluate and improve team processes and tools to ensure maximum efficiency and effectiveness.

• Education: You graduated from a top engineering school or engineering program.

• Problem solver: Strong analytical skills with a creative and pragmatic approach to solving complex problems.

• Fast learner: Comfortable in any technical environment, quick to learn new programming languages, frameworks, or practices.

• Mindset: Entrepreneurial spirit, eager to take on challenges, and enjoy getting hands-on with projects.

• Programming skills: Proficiency in at least one programming language and the ability to write clean, efficient code following best practices.

• Attention to detail: A keen eye for detail and a talent for spotting flaws.

• Efficiency: Able to manage projects with multiple stakeholders, delivering on time while ensuring productivity.

• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of explaining complex ideas simply.

• Languages: Fluent in English, both written and spoken. French is not required.

Our perks

We believe that flexibility and trust are important parts of a company. Our work environment reflects this thanks to:

• Flexible remote: If you live in Paris, you can work from our office or from your place with no constraints. If you live elsewhere, you can get access to a coworking space.

• Work from anywhere: Do you want to travel to Italy for a month and work from there? For up to 3 months a year, you may work from most countries in the world.

On top of that, we offer many perks such as:

• a budget for remote work equipment

• a ClassPass subscription for you to stay in shape wherever you are

• premium health insurance (Alan Blue in France)

• a Swile card for your meals, if you are based in France

• frequent team events and in-person gatherings every quarter!

• and so much more, see here ⏪

• 20-min call with the Hiring Manager

• 45-min personality interview with two team members

• A case study followed by a 45-min debrief with team members / For Tech positions: live tests with team members

• 45-min Founders interview

• Reference calls

You might also be invited to meet other team members at the office for a coffee or a drink!