Senior Back end Developer - PHP & Python

About The Team And The Project Join the R&D Trademarks Algo team, which builds and runs the trademark search engines at the heart of our platform, and help shape their next generation. Our engines search more than 200 million trademarks worldwide and handle multiple kinds of similarity: phonetic, orthographic, grammatical and semantic. Our team is distributed across several locations. We work in an Agile way and own our services end to end, including production, with no on-call duty for now. As a senior member of the team, you work directly with the Engineering Manager on key decisions and on the transformation of our architecture. This is a hybrid role based in Tunis. Your missions - You are a technical reference for the team and a trusted partner of the Engineering - Manager on the evolution of our trademark search engines. - Lead the transformation of our architecture to make it more maintainable and more performant. - Improve the relevance, performance and scalability of similarity searches over a database of more than 200 million trademarks. - Maintain and evolve the existing search stack, which relies on PHP and Manticore,while moving new developments to Python and Go. - Assess and gradually introduce new technologies, such as Elasticsearch, Kubernetes,big data, machine learning and LLMs. - Set the standard for quality code: tested, well structured and documented, and help the team reach it through code reviews. - Use AI-assisted development tools to work faster and better, while keeping full ownership of the result. - Investigate complex production issues by digging into logs and metrics, and propose lasting fixes. - Take part in Agile rituals and technical discussions with the distributed team. Profile and key skills We are looking for a senior back-end developer who has already led technical decisions and architecture changes, and who will be comfortable with Python and happy to work with PHP code. Education and experience Engineeri