Careers

Careers

Work Hard, Have Fun
And Make a Difference

Antidot invents innovative technology solutions that help customers make the most of their content and enhance their operating efficiency. A well-established company with a broad customer base, we keep the agility of a startup and offer a fun and friendly work environment.

Whether you are a geek who loves to solve complicated math problems with advanced algorithms, a developer who strives to make products that customers love to use, or not-a-geek-at-all but still don’t mind working around them, we probably have a job for you at Antidot!

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The bulk of our open positions are located in France: in Lyon and near Aix-en-Provence (Lambesc to be precise). We also have US operations in Boston and are actively developing business in other countries – many opportunities to be involved with a global and fast-growing project.

Enjoy attractive benefits

Best-in-class health insurance (Mutuelle)

Luncheon vouchers (Tickets Restaurant)

Adjustable schedule

Flexible leave management policy

Family-friendly environment

Real team spirit and friendly atmosphere

Customized training and personal development program

Your choice of Linux or Mac workstation

Hackathons, Ship Its and Weekly Dev experience sharing presentations

Opportunities to attend flagship industry events (Devoxx, DockerCon, MixIt, Agile, Flupa, etc.)

About Lyon

Named “First Startup City in France” by Forbes, Lyon boasts an incredibly dynamic tech scene and a broad innovation ecosystem. Also known for its food scene, Lyon is a vibrant city with rich cultural and nightlife options, it is close to the best ski resorts in the world, and remains an affordable place to live.

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About Lambesc

Located in the heart of Provence (20 km from Aix-en-Provence and 40 km from Marseille), Lambesc has a strong historical and cultural heritage. The special character of the village and its beautiful environs make it a very attractive proposition for outdoors enthusiasts and anyone seeking great weather and quality of life.

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Open Positions

Front-End Integration Developer

Fluid Topics transforms technical documentation into personalized content experiences that truly engage users at all stages of the product journey. Available as a full-featured Web App, Fluid Topics can also be integrated into our customer’s ecosystems web portal, embedded documentation, augmented reality device…). Our font-end integration developers make these integrations possible and easy to use.

You will be working with the Product Owner in charge of Integrations and the Web App developers. You will build reusable Web Components and enable the integration of Fluid Topics into our partner’s products and our customer’s environments. Your deliverables will be integrated into frameworks such as Angular, React, Vue JS, Vanilla JS or even PHP.

You will work following the Agile methodology and Dev(Sec)Ops principles. Being a Software Editor, we take special care to ensure the quality of our deliverables, which are used several millions of times per day by users from all over the globe.

Qualifications

  • Hand-on programming experience: Vanilla JS, HTML/CSS, HHTP, REST web services.
  • Good web culture, monitor web and browser news
  • Knowledge of web frameworks (at least one Angular, React or Vue.js) and popular libraries (Jquery, …)
  • Appetite for tests and security
  • Good English level (international context)
  • Soft Skills: discuss, collaborate, share, empathize, respect other points of view
  • Mindset: eager to learn, team spirit, provide a continuous value flow for a rapidly evolving product
  • Tools: Gitlab, Jenkins, Jira
  • 2+ years of relevant industry experience
  • Bachelor or Master
  • Bonus: Typescript, Jquery, UX/UI, PHP, Git, CI/CD, Docker, k8S

Details:

  • Position based in Lyon or Lambesc
  • Please send your resume and cover letter to [email protected]

DevOps – Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Because Antidot operates its own SaaS solutions, we are strong believers in the DevOps and Continuous Delivery strategies. Our Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) develop and operate software that automate system admin tasks.

Tasks

  • Within an agile team, you contribute to developing the infrastructure that is used to operate Antidot’s software solutions, and to keeping it up-and-running.
  • You share Antidot’s philosophy that anything that can be automated, should be automated. You use state of the art technologies for software development, configuration management, and deployment. You are curious, continuously looking at new technologies, and not afraid to make suggestions.
  • You provide to developers all the information they need to understand how to use the infrastructure. You work closely with product engineering teams to improve the operability of solutions.

Challenges

  • Do everything you can to have nothing to do! If needed, spend 3x more time but make sure you won’t have to do it again.
  • Automate everything, monitor everything and do “truly” continuous deployment.
  • Develop infrastructure software with the same tools, the same methods, the same quality and testing than our solutions.
  • Always question what you know, try new solutions, look at what is happening in the open source world and don’t hesitate to contribute.

Requirements

  • Rigorous and efficient: working under pressure and deadline does not scare you.
  • Flexible and open-minded: you have no prejudice, you always look for the best solution, the best language, the best tool for each problem.
  • Passionate: about your work, about new open source technologies. You wouldn’t mind going to Fosdem.
  • Collaborative: you love to work in a team, you love to learn, share, review and even challenge each other’s code.
  • Innovative: docker 1.13 is already installed on your computer (next to lxd).
  • Your English is fluid (written and spoken).

Environment

  • git, gitlab, github, python, ansible, puppet, gitlabCI, Jenkins, debian, Red Hat/CentOS, AWS, lx[cd], docker, swarm, jira, shinken, ELK, graylog, GLPI, dashio, rundeck, archiva

Details

  • Position based near Aix en Provence (Lambesc) or in Lyon
  • Please send your resume to [email protected]

C++ Developer

You are a developer with a software engineering degree and you love technology. At Antidot, you will take part into all phases of designing and running high performance, scalable and robust applications, used by clients worldwide to generate millions of queries each day.

Tasks

  • Design elegant and scalable solutions that use state-of-the-art algorithms and software components developed by Antidot or open source communities.
  • Use powerful tooling (C++11/14, Java 8, NoSQL, Docker) and modern methodologies (DevOps, Scrum, Kanban, Continuous Delivery, Pair Programming, etc.)

Requirements

  • Graduate or post-graduate in computer science or software engineering.
  • Passionate about development and teamwork.
  • Object oriented programming.
  • Your English is OK: you can read technical documentation and join meetings with clients and coworkers.

Interests

  • Continuous Delivery
  • A/B Testing and Feature Flipping
  • Agile Manifesto, Software Craftsmanship
  • Design for Testability, TDD, DDD, Clean Code

Environment

  • C++11/14
  • Python 3
  • Web services, REST, distributed architectures
  • NoSQL and SQL databases
  • Linux: distributions, kernel, tuning
  • Docker, containers and containers clusters orchestration

Details

  • Position based near Aix en Provence (Lambesc) or in Lyon
  • Please send your resume to [email protected]

Full Stack Developer

Antidot is looking for a Full Stack Developer, passionate about learning new technologies and adapting to complex and fast moving environments. You will build HTML5-oriented responsive designs for desktop and mobile platforms relying on our own REST Web Services that you will take in charge. Performance is your concern from server architecture to browser reactivity.

You work well with designers, value a great user experience, and love all things HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You pride yourself in being an early adopter of powerful and fun tech. You look for ways to improve your stack and constantly pay off technical debt and are aware of browser compatibility challenges (like IE).

Requirements

  • Passionate
  • Working with a team
  • Advanced Object Oriented Programming
  • Advanced JavaScript
  • Advanced CSS
  • HTML5 techniques

Backend skills

  • JVM, Java 8, Python 3.5
  • REST architecture, Play Framework, Restlet
  • MongoDB, MariaDB

Frontend skills

  • MVP, Single Page Application, GWT 2.8
  • HTML5, CSS3, LESS

Methodology

  • Agile Manifesto, Software Craftsmanship
  • TDD, DDD
  • Clean Code, Pair Programming, Code Reviews
  • UX, Persona, Wireframes, Prototypes

Interests

  • Groovy, Ceylon
  • SpringBoot, RestX, Node
  • NoSQL, Cassandra, Redis
  • Angular, VueJS, React
  • Handlebars.js, mustache.js
  • Yarn
  • Web Performance (HTTP2, CDN)
  • Devoxx, Mix-it, JUG, Agile Tour, Castcodeurs, The Walking Web

Details

  • Position based near Aix en Provence (Lambesc) or in Lyon
  • Please send your resume to [email protected]

Technical Writer

Job description

Join our team and our fantastic adventure!

Antidot invents innovative technology solutions that help customers make the most of their content and enhance their operating efficiency. A well-established company with a broad customer base, we keep the agility of a startup and offer a fun and friendly work environment.

Our continued success and growth requires a technical writer to join the team.

You will be part of the Documentation team. The team is in charge of designing User Guides, Installation Guides, Release Notes, Training materials and Translations.

As part of the Documentation team, the Technical Writer is responsible for:

  • Creating self-explanatory outbound documentation (User Manual, Release Notes) to ease the operations of Fluid Topics users.
  • Interface with R&D experts to understand how to maximize the use and efficiency of Fluid Topics.
  • Interface with Product Owners to position solution features into technical advantage and business selling point.

Essential required skill set and experience

  • Degree in Technical Writing, English, Communications from University Rennes 2, University Paris Diderot, similar or equivalent work experience,
  • 3 – 5 years work experience in technical writing of content / documentation in the software,
  • You should be familiar with Technical Modelization, Structured Writing, Modular Content, and Standardization of Content.
  • A good understanding of HTML, XML, CSS is required.
  • A first experience with DITA or S1000D would be a plus.
  • Strong relational and communication skills in an international environment,
  • Technology savvy, business-driven and customer focused,
  • Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously,
  • Fluent English is a must, a second language will be a plus,
  • Passion for technology and innovation!

Conditions

  • Position available near Aix-en-Provence.
  • Competitive remuneration.
  • Send your application to [email protected]

Technical Consultant

You are a versatile software engineer willing to implement data processing solutions, and take part in innovative projects for international customers. At Antidot, you will join an agile team of consultants delivering the limitless potential of our Fluid Topics solution.

Fluid Topics: a game changer for documentation

User guides, technical and reference manuals, installation and maintenance manuals aren’t merely the documentation of products – they are also tools for winning business, increasing customer satisfaction and building loyalty.
Fluid Topics is a turnkey platform for technical content delivery that transforms all forms of static documentation into a lively and interactive online publishing system.

Tasks

Acquire a strong expertise on Antidot technologies and especially on Fluid Topics

  • Advise and support the client
  • Design functional and technical specifications and data architectures
  • Implement custom modules
  • Automate your work by creating new tools

Requirements

  • Software engineer profile, looking for new challenges through varied projects
  • Experience in object-oriented development, continuous integration,enterprise architecture
  • Knowledge of our expertise domain : search engine, structured documentation, content processing
  • Your English is fluid (written and spoken)

Interests

  • Work in close collaboration with international clients
  • Design and implementation of innovative solutions
  • Agile and continuous improvement

Technical Environment

  • Python 3 and/or Java 8
  • XML technologies: XSL, XSD, DOM, SAX, DITA, Docbook
  • Linux (Debian, RHEL), Docker, Gitlab
  • NoSQL and SQL databases

Details

  • Position based in Lyon or near Aix en Provence (Lambesc)
  • Consultants are encouraged to attend conferences such as Devoxx, Mix It, Agile Tour, etc.
  • Please send your resume to [email protected]

Project Manager

You are an experienced project manager looking for a new challenge in leading innovative projects for international customers. At Antidot, you will join an agile team of consultants delivering the limitless potential of our Fluid Topics solution.

Fluid Topics: a game changer for documentation

User guides, technical and reference manuals, installation and maintenance manuals aren’t merely the documentation of products – they are also tools for winning business, increasing customer satisfaction and building loyalty.
Fluid Topics is a turnkey platform for technical content delivery that transforms all forms of static documentation into a lively and interactive online publishing system.

Tasks

  • Develop a strong expertise on Antidot technologies and especially on Fluid Topics
  • Work as the main point of contact for our clients
  • Track progress of the project, drive acceptance testing
  • Automate your work by creating new tools
  • Coordinate the work with consultants and internal teams

Requirements

  • Experience in IT project management
  • Good technical background as a developer
  • Strong learning and understanding ability
  • Your English is fluid (written and spoken)

Interests

  • Work in close collaboration with international clients
  • Agile project management
  • Data manipulation and processing

Technical Environment

  • Python 3 and/or Java 8
  • XML technologies: XSL, XSD, DOM, SAX, DITA, Docbook
  • Linux (Debian, RHEL), Docker, Gitlab
  • NoSQL and SQL databases
  • Expertise in search engines would be appreciated

Details

  • Position based in Lyon or near Aix en Provence (Lambesc)
  • Please send your resume to [email protected]

Software Tester – Work-Study Contract

Job Description

Join our team and our fantastic adventure!

Antidot invents innovative technology solutions that help customers make the most of their content and enhance their operating efficiency. A well-established company with a broad customer base, we keep the agility of a startup and offer a fun and friendly work environment.

Our continued success and growth require a Software Tester to join the team.

You will be part of the Product Knowledge team. The team is in charge of validating major features across our development teams, managing the evolution of quality from a global standpoint, as well as designing guides, release notes, and translations.

As part of the Product Knowledge team, the Software Tester is responsible for:

  • Designing the test strategy and running test scenarios, using appropriate methodologies and tools
  • Conducting non-regression and exploratory testing for set releases
  • Interfacing with Product Owners and Development Teams in order to plan acceptance criteria in advance, as well as validating new functionalities
  • Tracking evolution of quality parameters by observing risk factors according to impact and frequency of failure
  • Collaborating with other member of Product Knowledge and Customer Service teams in order to ensure quality of documentation and information available for users

Essential required skill set and experience

  • JIRA
  • Postman (or tool of choice for conducting Web Service API Testing)
  • Squash Test Management Tool
  • GitLab
  • Docker
  • LambdaTest

Why join us?

  • A solid technical culture,
  • A “start-up” atmosphere,
  • An international context,
  • Innovative solutions with a strong maturity and leading references,
  • The opportunity to participate in the development of the company and the chance for continuous professional improvement

Conditions

  • Flexible work schedule and location (with possibility for Full Remote position)
  • Luncheon vouchers and Mutuelle health insurance
  • Linux or Mac workstation

Send your application to [email protected].

Senior Account Executive
for the German market

About Antidot

Antidot reinvents the way people search, navigate and read mission-critical content. Our flagship product Fluid Topics is the leading Content Delivery Platform SaaS solution, revolutionizing how technical documentation and product information is published and accessed for Customer Support and Field Maintenance applications.

Founded in 1999, Antidot is a software vendor headquartered in France, with a subsidiary in the US, and backed by leading European VCs. We sell our software internationally to large corporates, (North America, Europe, Japan), working with a strong ecosystem of partners and integrators.

After a first set of significant deals in Germany with prominent companies (such as Siemens, Liebherr), we are accelerating our growth in the DACH market, and we are looking for a passionate senior Account Executive to be an early and core member of our German-speaking sales team.

Your mission

As a Senior Account Executive, you will play an integral role in building the foundation for our success on the DACH market.  You will be responsible for driving new sales revenue by building and maintaining relationships with a set of accounts located in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, across many vertical markets and industries.

You’ll need to know the capabilities of Fluid Topics, be able to demonstrate its benefits to our prospects, and serve as an evangelist. You will demonstrate relentless customer focus by managing all aspects of the client relationship, including prospecting, qualification, and driving the sales process through successful close.

Reporting to the CEO, you will be working closely with the Antidot global sales team and business partners.

The role is located in Germany at the place of your choice.

Your Responsibilities

  • Respond to, qualify, and nurture inbound leads from marketing campaigns. Engage and grow a healthy sales pipeline.
  • Build and execute an outbound prospecting plan by targeting critical markets and buyer personas in chosen segments; generate new projects from booking self-driven meetings.
  • Drive inbound and outbound leads through sales cycles: identify potential client needs and suggest appropriate solutions, build compelling demonstrations with the pre-sales team.
  • Structure, negotiate, and close complex sales agreements, often requiring high degrees of financial acumen, legal knowledge and ability to respond to procurement processes.
  • Build long-term trusting relationships with clients. Manage and prospect with an existing account base to drive usage-based and feature-based upsells.
  • Collaborate with marketing to elaborate and improve sales material and ROI studies bringing value to our customers.
  • Practice effective, transparent communication with management, customers, extended team and partners.
  • Monitor and report sales performance (pipeline, forecast).
  • Travel to customer locations in support of sales efforts, primarily around Germany, and if necessary, Austria and Switzerland; as well as occasionally travel to the Company HQ in Lyon.

Your Profile

  • Authentic and Committed: You bring your real self to work, love building human relationships and care about making your customers happy. You believe in the value of dedication and transparency for building long lasting businesses with customers.
  • Passionate and Knowledgeable: You love technology and sophisticated products. You have an experience in software solutions related to content management, content publishing, customer support or field service.
  • Experienced: 8+ years of sales experience of enterprise-class B2B software to key accounts, with a track record of achievement in quota-carrying sales roles and a natural understanding of the sales process.
  • Autonomous & Entrepreneurial: Self-directed, and comfortable working in an autonomous (you will be the first German speaker in our sales team), dynamic.
  • Start-up environment: you have a strong desire to be a part of building something special, you are thrilled to bring to the market a new kind of software that is a real game-changer.
  • Native German, fluent in English (other language is a plus).

Benefits

  • Customized training and personal development program
  • Opportunities to attend flagship industry events
  • Real team spirit and friendly atmosphere
  • Adjustable schedule and flexible time off policy

Join us! Send your resume and a cover letter to [email protected]

Pre-Sales Senior Consultant

Job Description

Fluid Topics transforms technical documentation into personalized content experiences that truly engage users at all stages of the product journey. Available as a full-featured Web App, Fluid Topics can also be integrated in the ecosystem of our customers (web portal, embedded documentation, augmented reality device…). A crucial part of the Sales process relies on building effective demonstrations addressing prospects’ needs and pain points.

You’ll be working alongside our Sales, Professional Services and Product & Engineering teams, identifying customer needs, adapting solutions and building prototypes thanks to your functional and technical skills.

Key Job Functions

  • Support the Sales team in their pre-sale efforts:
    • Provide pre-sales expertise around Fluid Topics
    • Demonstrate Fluid Topics value proposition and differentiation at all levels within Enterprise Accounts
    • Engage in and respond to RFI/RFP procurement processes
    • Quote and validate the professional services required
  • Attend technical meetings, build proof of concepts, perform custom demonstrations
  • Conduct technical studies on products, report on the evolution of technology
  • Stay up to date with the fast pace of Product releases
  • Provide and maintain material (demos, documentation….) can be used during the commercial presentation
  • Provide feedbacks to Product Team (PM, PO, UX/UI designers)

Profile

  • Eager to explore the customers’ business needs, environment, and data in order to build a spot-on custom demonstrator
  • Adaptability, ingenuity, candor and flexibility
  • Ability to work fast when required
  • Appetite for challenges
  • Ability to hack a solution; technical skills should include Web technologies, data formats (XML, JSON…), programming/scripting languages
  • Aware of specific needs of enterprise solutions (compliance, certifications, security…)
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and adept at working with multiple stakeholders
  • Fluent in English
  • At least 5 years’ experience including 2 or more years in a SaaS Presales position

Benefits

  • Customized training and personal development program
  • Opportunities to attend flagship industry events
  • Real team spirit and friendly atmosphere
  • Adjustable schedule and flexible time off policy

Join us! Send your resume and a cover letter to [email protected]

Full stack Software Engineer

Our customers use Fluid Topics all over the globe, generating millions of daily requests to our SaaS servers. Antidot’s Fluid Topics Core team builds the Web Services backend providing the replies and the Turnkey portal most users use to leverage their documentation.

This software is mostly written in Java (and marginally in JS, web frameworks and Python) with an important focus on software craftsmanship, UX/UI, accessibility, reliability and distributed processing.

The team:

  • Works hand in hand with a Product Owner to optimize the value of the deliverables, and with other teams and the CTO to ensure consistent and operable system design.
  • Designs and reviews quarterly OKRs, ensuring alignment with Engineering and Product Goals in order to maximize Business Value.
  • Follows the Agile/Kanban principles and ensures that knowledge is shared by all team members.
  • Packages and frequently updates the software for our SaaS customers in a Dev(Sec)Ops way.
  • Runs alerting and monitoring systems and provides expert debugging assistance to other teams.

As a Software Engineer you:

  • Are an active contributor to the codebase. The Core team is a feature team, you will interact with code managing front-end, back-end and operations.
  • Work at different paces (fast for prototyping, slower for robust operations).
  • Actively contribute to product design/architecture.

Qualifications

  • Master of Engineering, Computing major
  • Soft Skills: discuss, collaborate, share, empathize, respect other points of view
  • Mindset: eager to learn, work in a team. Enthusiastic, proactive.
  • Good English level (international context)
  • Very good Java skills. Knowledge of Python

Development environment

  • Java 16, Python 3, Web technologies (HTML, CSS, JS, PWA)
  • Spring Boot, MongoDB, SSO, OWASP
  • Clean code, TDD, peer reviews and/or pair coding
  • Kubernetes & containers
  • Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery

Located in Lambesc (near Aix en Provence) or Lyon (Partial Remote possible), or Full Remote from France

Join us! Send your resume and a cover letter to [email protected]

Antidot is an equal opportunity employer and will consider applicants for all positions based solely on qualifications and suitability for the job. We not only welcome diversity, we actually embrace it and view it as a way to become better, at what we do, and as individuals.