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Sightengine

Senior Back-end Developer PHP [France]

Hybrid

St.-germain-en-laye, France

Senior

Full Time

18-11-2025

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Skills

Python PHP CSS Docker Test Machine Learning Computer Vision Databases git Autonomy Front-end Development Back-end Development JS Microservices

Job Specifications

[APPLICANTS BASED IN FRANCE ONLY] please only apply if you are currently based in France

Sightengine is a French computer vision company that has become a leader in image analysis. Our AI-image detection tool is number 1 worldwide and our APIs for content analysis and content moderation are used by thousands of customers. Our goal is to make content analysis easy and seamless for everyone.

Processing over a billion images annually, we serve both individual developers and major enterprises through our self-serve API solutions.

We're a profitable, remote-friendly company.

About The Role

We are looking for a world-class Senior Back-end Engineer. In this role, you will work on our APIs, and our back-end infrastructure.

You will contribute to the platform, service and APIs that help deliver our mission, making Machine Learning for Trust&Safety available to everybody. You will work with a talented team of Engineers while enjoying autonomy to test and suggest implementations.

Your responsibilities will be to:

- Develop and improve services and features in our REST APIs, microservices and processing systems

- Write and maintain scalable, performance and secure code

- Debug production issues across services

- Suggest improvements, features, and contribute to the Back-end roadmap

About You

You will enjoy working here if you love technical challenges at scale, ML applied to Computer Vision (Images / Videos / Livestreams), and you love to stay up-to-date with the latest technologies.

An ideal candidate would:

- have 5+ years experience in Back-end development, developing scalable applications or API services

- have a strong experience in PHP and API development

- have experience with relational databases

- be proficient with Docker, GIT

Big plus if you have the following:

- experience with front-end development, with JS, CSS

- experience with Python

- experience with video/audio handling & streaming

- experience with data ingestion pipelines or with system orchestration

More about Sightengine

Sightengine develops API-based AI solutions for content moderation, AI content detection, fraud detection and more. Our APIs are used by thousands of users and have been found to achieve an industry-leading accuracy in several external benchmarks.

Sightengine gives you access to an exciting, stimulating, varied work environment. The objective is for you to be able to learn, improve and feel empowered on a daily basis. You will be learning from the rest of the team as we tackle new challenges. In addition to that, here is what comes with work at Sightengine:

- Continuous learning and personal development opportunities.

- Thrilling technical projects on state-of-the-art topics

- A flexible work environment

- Flexible vacation and hybrid (onsite/remote) work

About the Company

Sightengine is an Artificial Intelligence company that empowers developers and businesses. Our powerful image and video analysis technology is built on proprietary state-of-the-art Deep Learning systems and is made available through simple and clean APIs. Know more