# Senior Back end Developer - PHP & Python

About the team and the project Join the R&D Trademarks Algo team, which builds and runs the trademark search engines at the heart of our platform, and help shape their next generation. Our engines search more than 200 million trademarks worldwide and handle multiple kinds of similarity: phonetic, orthographic, grammatical and semantic. Our team is distributed across several locations. We work in an Agile way and own our services end to end, including production, with no on-call duty for now. As a senior member of the team, you work directly with the Engineering Manager on key decisions and on the transformation of our architecture. This is a hybrid role based in Tunis. Your missions - You are a technical reference for the team and a trusted partner of the Engineering - Manager on the evolution of our trademark search engines. - Lead the transformation of our architecture to make it more maintainable and more performant. - Improve the relevance, performance and scalability of similarity searches over a database of more than 200 million trademarks. - Maintain and evolve the existing search stack, which relies on PHP and Manticore,while moving new developments to Python and Go. - Asse

- **Id**: 4031644
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/questel-senior-back-end-developer-php-python>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Tunis, Tunisia
- **Countries**: TN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T18:50:25Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T18:50:25Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3975
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Legal Services, Legal Software

## Company

- **Id**: 685215
- **Name**: Questel
- **Domain**: questel.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/questel>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: BambooHR

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 92
- **Open postings**: 33
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.333
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 52
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **ElasticSearch** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **PHP** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RabbitMQ** — Optional: no
- **Redis** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T18:50:25Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 52
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T20:22:58Z

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