Backend Engineer

About Dashlane

Dashlane's mission is to deliver the credential security every business and employee needs to thrive. Millions of consumers, and over 25,000 brands worldwide, such as Michelin, Air France, and Forrester, trust Dashlane for industry-leading innovations, patented zero-knowledge security, and an unmatched user experience. Founded in Paris, Dashlane has since established offices in New York and Lisbon, and has grown to more than 300 Dashlaners globally.

We're looking for people who actively use AI tools to drive efficiency, creativity, and impact in their work. At Dashlane, we drive innovation and value learning, strive for excellence in everything we do, and thrive as one team. Learn more about life at Dashlane, including how we work, how we hire, and the benefits of being a Dashlaner.

About the role

You will join the team securing Dashlane accounts. We manage all authentication flows, and our mission ensures users access their data securely through passwords, PIN codes, or SSO. We build everything on a zero knowledge architecture, and we also protect users from attacks such as phishing. Our team ships new technology often: for example we recently added hardware security key support. As a backend engineer, you will work with frontend and security experts. As a backend engineer you will collaborate closely with frontend engineers developing our web extension, other backend engineers and security engineers to deliver new features to our users while complying with our security commitments.

Location-Specific Information:

You will be based in Paris, with English as your working language. At Dashlane, we embrace a hybrid culture (3 office days/week) that combines the best of both worlds: the creativity and energy of in-person collaboration with the flexibility of remote work. Our model is designed to strengthen team connections while supporting individual productivity and work-life balance. 

Our stack:

• Programming languages:

  • Backend: NodeJS, Typescript

  • Frontend / internal tooling: React, Typescript

• Infrastructure and storage layer: AWS EC2, AWS Nitro (confidential computing), Amazon ECS, MySQL on RDS, Redis, S3

• CI/CD: Gitlab, Sonarqube, Terraform

• Logging and monitoring: ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)

In your role, you will:

• Innovate As an engineering member, you'll work closely with the teams to discover creative solutions that drive the company's expansion

• Work in a highly collaborative environment where everyone shares ownership on the company's success

• Participate to the product and technical design discussions to define the best solutions

• Implement backend projects from end to end: write clean code, easy to maintain and understand, implement test and manage deployment

• Manage quality of our application: monitor cloud applications, KTLO

• Learn every day, and share your knowledge with your co-workers

Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience in software development

• 3+ years of experience in developing backend applications

• Experience in and Typescript

• Experience in working with infrastructure on AWS

• Experience working in a product development team with agile practices

• Know how to code, but also to deploy, test, and monitor cloud applications

• Interested by quality and security of applications

• Fluent in English (as the team is international)

What Dashlane offers you:

• Swile card

• Well-being days - 4 extra days (one per quarter) to acknowledge the importance of your wellbeing

• Mental health services through Spring Health for you and your family members

• Equal Parental leave -  regardless of gender, up to 20 weeks fully paid leave to take care of their new baby, within the first year of birth or adoption

• Mentorship program - select your mentor from our internal pool and continue your learning path

• Flexible working hours - depending on the role, determine a schedule that fits your need, in alignment with your manager

• Team building & seasonal social events

• Weekly lunch in the office (Tuesdays), monthly happy hour and much more

• More about our other benefits

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at Dashlane:

As a truly international company—founded in France and distributed across France, US and Portugal—Dashlane thrives off diverse perspectives. We value all aspects of diversity: gender identity, sexual orientation, ability, ethnic origin, social background, age, lifestyle, and more. We are committed to hiring a diverse community and fostering a culture where everyone is heard and belongs. See more about this here. 

Your interview experience: 

To know what to expect once you've sent your application, read about how we interview and hire at Dashlane. Feel free to browse our blog to find more information about our product and how we work.