About the job

Alma shapes the fintech landscape. We strive to serve and empower consumers and merchants by developing innovative solutions that redefine their purchase experience.

We are looking for a Backend Software Engineer to work with our teams, which are responsible for developing our payment systems and offering the best user experience to merchants and consumers alike.

These teams deliver business-critical capabilities such as:

• Design and optimize the checkout, as well as offering self-care solutions to consumers
• Offer an easy onboarding flow and relevant dashboards to our merchants
• Develop and maintain an Alma integration for every e-commerce platform or payment orchestration solution
• Estimate the risk of funding a consumer's purchase or dealing with a merchant
• Manage the entire payment lifecycle, from creation to post-purchase operations such as paying early or delaying installments
• Ensure the system's financial accuracy by tracking cash flows in real-time

About the mission

As a Backend Software Engineer, your main missions are:

• Create APIs and backend components that enable payments for thousands of merchants and millions of consumers
• Write maintainable code that meets the highest quality, security, and performance standards expected of a regulated company processing billions of euros
• Evolve the architecture to meet growing business needs in close collaboration with the product team and other technical leaders
• Take the lead in production issues and performance troubleshooting, upgrading our product to achieve greater reliability in the long run

Our technical stack includes: Python, Docker, React, GCP, Kubernetes, Postgres, Redis, PubSub, Datadog

About you

You will be the ideal candidate for the role if you have:

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Experience: 2 to 5 years of relevant work experience with large-scale backend systems (internships and apprenticeships experience excluded).
• Proficiency with Python and relational databases. Please note: we're open to all backend programming languages for this role (however, as our product is built in Python on the backend side, experience with Python is greatly appreciated!)
• Languages: Fluent in French and a good level in English
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively within a cross-functional team
• Experience in building payment or financial solutions is a plus!

About the recruitment process
Find more information in the Interview Guide

• Interview with Talent Acquisition (30 mins)
• Interview with Engineering Manager (60 mins)
• Take-home Coding test, following by a remote feedback session (30 mins)
• Live System Design interview (60 mins)
• Team Fit interview (60 mins)