Based in Paris or Bordeaux, our future Senior Backend Developer will be a key player in our Tech team. Working closely with Victor, our Head of Software, you’ll help us scale our systems and accelerate our product development. This role is a mix of deep technical ownership, hands-on architecture work, and high-impact feature development.
Inside pony’s Tech team, you’ll find five developers, working with high agility. We deploy to production daily and release new app builds every week. We manage a wide range of applications (six in total), all built on very solid foundations. Our system handles tens of thousands of rides per day and hundreds of messages per second between our servers and our bikes and scooters.
Every developer works on high-impact projects, tackling exciting technical challenges: improving performance, optimising request loads, and laying the groundwork for tomorrow’s more complex features. We’re building for scale, preparing to absorb 10 times more users and trips in the coming months so we are looking for someone who is curious, sharp, and deeply technical with the desire to take ownership and work across a wide range of backend topics.
Key Responsibilities
Feature development: Build new product features and contribute to the technical roadmap, designing solutions that balance user needs with strong technical foundations
Infrastructure maintenance & improvement: Maintain existing systems, troubleshoot incidents, and continuously improve backend services
Performance optimisation: Reduce recurring incidents, improve capacity planning, and optimise backend architecture to ensure scalability and reliability
Complex problem-solving: Take ownership of deep technical challenges to ensure the robustness and quality of our platform