Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Backend engineering roles in SaaS are often defined by what they enable, and this one sits close to the commercial engine: onboarding, setup, and partner integrations. The focus on administrative workflows and deployment readiness reflects a mature SaaS operating model where reliability and repeatability matter as much as feature delivery. The security context, centred on protecting digital identities, adds a high-stakes dimension that is common in modern B2B SaaS platforms.
From a career standpoint, the role builds durable SaaS skills that transfer across product-led and enterprise environments. Work spanning integrations, legacy modernisation, and cloud operations tends to sharpen judgement around system boundaries, rollout safety, and observability. The explicit use of GenAI tools in the SDLC also signals practical exposure to how SaaS teams are incorporating automation into everyday engineering, beyond experimentation.
This position fits an engineer who prefers end-to-end backend ownership, including deployment and monitoring, and who values close collaboration with product and quality counterparts. It will suit someone comfortable balancing new build work with improving existing systems, and who wants their output to be measured in smoother customer and partner rollout outcomes rather than isolated services.
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
As a Server Software Engineer, you will own the design and implementation of core backend solutions that directly impact our business growth and partner onboarding ecosystems. You will work in a highly collaborative environment alongside Senior and Staff engineers who provide continuous mentorship, while partnering closely with product managers, project managers, and quality engineering teams. The Setup & Rollout team is currently focused on optimizing administrative workflows and scaling system integrations to ensure smooth deployments. Over your first 12 months, you will build full autonomy across all features and codebase areas you contribute to.
In this role, you will combine strong backend expertise with a forward-thinking AI mindset, integrating GenAI tools throughout the SDLC to accelerate development velocity while working in a deeply collaborative team to secure millions of digital identities.
Location-Specific Information:
You will be based in Paris, with English as your working language. At Dashlane, we embrace a hybrid culture 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. To maximize collaboration, we come together in the office on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, while Wednesdays and Fridays offer more flexibility for focused work.
About our tech stack:
- Programming languages: NodeJS, Typescript
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Infrastructure and storage layer: AWS EC2, AWS Nitro (confidential computing), Amazon ECS, MySQL on RDS Aurora, Redis, S3
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CI/CD: Gitlab, Terraform
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Logging and monitoring: ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) and Datadog
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AI : Claude Code
At Dashlane you will:
- Develop strategic third-party partner integrations and AI-assisted tools within our administrative console to drive company expansion.
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Pair with fellow engineers and collaborate across product, project, and quality engineering teams to deliver stable, high-impact features.
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Modernize legacy server-side systems that handle identity management, user provisioning, and corporate onboarding workflows.
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Participate in and propose cross-team initiatives aimed at improving engineering efficiency and team culture.
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Continuously learn modern technologies and share technical knowledge across the organization through mentorship and documentation.
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Work in a highly collaborative environment where everyone shares ownership of the company's success.
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Participate in 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 tests, and manage deployment.
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You will lean on AI coding platforms like Claude Code to streamline this lifecycle, driving development velocity while maintaining high code quality.
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Manage the quality of our application: monitor cloud applications, KTLO.
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Learn every day, and share your knowledge with your co-workers.
Requirements:
- 4+ years of software development experience
- 3+ years of backend application development experience
- Proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure on AWS or equivalent hyperscaler
- Experience working in agile product development teams
- Ability to not only write code, but also deploy, test, and monitor cloud applications
- Strong commitment to application quality and security
- AI Fluency: comfortable leveraging AI tools to streamline software engineering tasks and everyday workflows
- Fluent in English (the team is international)
What Dashlane offers you:
- 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
- Health insurance is covered by Dashlane
- Mentorship program - select your mentor from our internal pool and continue your learning path!
- Commute allowance
- Meal Vouchers (Swile)
- Mental health services through Spring Health for you and your family members
- 4 extra days off (one per quarter) to acknowledge the importance of your wellbeing
- Spot in daycare
- Time off saving account
- Donation matching program - give back to the community and support actions that lead to positive social impact under the historically marginalized communities. Every donation will be matched by Dashlane
- Team buildings & seasonal social events
- Weekly lunch in the office and monthly happy hour
- and many more!
