Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This backend role sits at a core SaaS concern: account security and authentication. Owning sign in flows, SSO, and protections against phishing places the work directly on the boundary between product usability and risk, where many subscription businesses differentiate and retain trust. The mention of zero knowledge architecture and recent additions like hardware security keys signals a security sensitive environment where backend decisions materially shape the customer experience.
For a SaaS career, the value is in building repeatable expertise in identity, access, and secure service design that travels well across B2B and consumer SaaS. The stack spans API development and cloud operations, with explicit expectations around testing, deployment, monitoring, and KTLO, which mirrors how mature SaaS teams run production systems. Cross functional delivery with frontend and security specialists also develops the collaboration patterns common in platform and product security work.
This role tends to suit engineers who like end to end ownership and are comfortable being accountable for reliability as well as features. It fits someone motivated by applied security problems and pragmatic engineering tradeoffs, and who prefers working in a team where backend work is tightly coupled to real user authentication journeys.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
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:
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Programming languages:
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Backend: NodeJS, Typescript
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Frontend / internal tooling: React, Typescript
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Infrastructure and storage layer: AWS EC2, AWS Nitro (confidential computing), Amazon ECS, MySQL on RDS, Redis, S3
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CI/CD: Gitlab, Sonarqube, Terraform
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Logging and monitoring: ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
In your role, you will:
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Innovate! As an engineering member, you'll work closely with the teams to discover creative solutions that drive the company's expansion
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Work in a highly collaborative environment where everyone shares ownership on the company's success
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Participate to the product and technical design discussions to define the best solutions
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Implement backend projects from end to end: write clean code, easy to maintain and understand, implement test and manage deployment
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Manage quality of our application: monitor cloud applications, KTLO
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Learn every day, and share your knowledge with your co-workers
Requirements:
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4+ years of experience in software development
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3+ years of experience in developing backend applications
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Experience in Node.js and Typescript
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Experience in working with infrastructure on AWS
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Experience working in a product development team with agile practices
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Know how to code, but also to deploy, test, and monitor cloud applications
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Interested by quality and security of applications
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Fluent in English (as the team is international)
What Dashlane offers you:
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Swile card
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Well-being days - 4 extra days (one per quarter) to acknowledge the importance of your wellbeing
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Mental health services through Spring Health for you and your family members
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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
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Mentorship program - select your mentor from our internal pool and continue your learning path!
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Flexible working hours - depending on the role, determine a schedule that fits your need, in alignment with your manager
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Team building & seasonal social events
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Weekly lunch in the office (Tuesdays), monthly happy hour and much more
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