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Mistral is a full-stack AI company providing frontier models, developer tools, applications, and compute infrastructure. They partner with enterprises across finance, manufacturing, defense, healthcare, and the public sector to build customized AI systems.
As a Backend Software Engineer, you'll develop core systems powering Mistral's Cloud platform. You'll design and build scalable, high-performance backend services and APIs supporting a rapidly growing enterprise user base.
Key responsibilities include:
**Backend Development**: Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend features and APIs using modern frameworks. Ensure high performance and reliability across distributed systems. Contribute to systems powering authentication, billing, AI tooling, observability, connectors, and developer experience.
**System Architecture**: Design and implement efficient, secure, and scalable architectures supporting fast-growing products. Collaborate with infrastructure teams on deployment, monitoring, and performance optimization.
**Code Quality**: Write clean, maintainable, well-documented code. Participate in code reviews and contribute to technical standards and best practices.
**Cross-functional Collaboration**: Work closely with product managers, front-end engineers, designers, and data/AI engineers to deliver end-to-end features. Partner with teams across AI Studio, Le Chat, and Mistral Code.
**Problem-Solving & Innovation**: Tackle complex engineering challenges from distributed systems to AI product integration. Stay current with emerging technologies and bring them into production when relevant.
Required qualifications: Proficiency in Golang; strong backend fundamentals (APIs, databases, caching, messaging, distributed architectures); experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) and bare-metal systems; infrastructure management (Docker, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform); observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog); strong problem-solving and attention to detail; ownership mindset for shipping end-to-end features with minimal oversight.
Mistral offers comprehensive benefits including healthcare, parental leave, retirement plans, relocation support, wellness programs, and location-specific perks. Teams are distributed across Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East.
