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Location: Paris, 52nd floor, Montparnasse Tower – breathtaking views guaranteed 🌇
Salary: €80-110k base & bonus + equity

Are you ready to architect the backbone of a next-generation AI-powered video platform? Join us as we scale our infrastructure to deliver winning video ads across Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok!

We’re looking for a lead backend/infra engineer to own and evolve our technical infrastructure as we grow. You’ll be the architect and guardian of our systems, ensuring reliability, scalability, and blazing speed for our creative teams and clients.

This position is perfect for you if...

• You love designing and building robust, scalable backend systems and cloud infrastructure.

• You thrive in the fast-paced, ever-evolving world of startups. Autonomy excites you, you can handle ambiguity, and you’re proactive, adaptable, and hands-on.

• You want to take full ownership of infrastructure decisions and leave your mark on a product from the ground up.

• You enjoy collaborating with product, engineering, and creative teams to deliver seamless experiences.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the technical infrastructure for our AI-powered video creation platform

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend systems and cloud services (bonus points for experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure)

• Ensure security, reliability, and performance across all systems

• Automate deployments, monitoring, and incident response

• Collaborate with engineering and creative teams to support rapid product iteration and scaling

• Evaluate and introduce new technologies to keep us at the cutting edge

Requirements

• You’re an experienced backend/infra engineer or architect with a track record of building and scaling cloud infrastructure

• Deep knowledge of backend systems, cloud platforms, and DevOps best practices

• You can work from our Paris office most of the time, to foster close collaboration with the team

• Strong communication skills and a collaborative spirit

About the founders

Marco leads tech and operations. After 15 years in Silicon Valley, he recently relocated to Paris with his family. In the US, he led engineering teams at Adobe and Google for a decade, gaining deep experience in large-scale systems and best coding practices. A hands-on builder, he created matter.js—a successful open-source Typescript implementation of an IoT protocol. He also holds a Guinness World Record for the fastest solar-powered train and is passionate about elegant, efficient code.

Guillaume leads business and product. He brings 15 years of experience in NYC building advertising tech and consumer apps in entertainment. He built innovative performance marketing products for major companies like Apple Services, Amazon Music, Ticketmaster, and LiveNation. Most recently, he was Chief Product Officer of a Creator Economy unicorn that was named World’s Most Innovative in Video by Fast Company. A proud father of two toddlers, he’s also a surfer and a music lover.

How to Apply

To apply, send an email to hiring@renaissance.studio with:

• A short motivation letter

• A link to your LinkedIn & GitHub profiles

• Any other relevant projects