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 an Engineering Manager to lead our CMS and Integration Teams. These teams play a crucial role in bringing Alma's payment solutions to life through our public APIs, direct integrations in payment service providers such as Stripe, and on major e-commerce platforms like Shopify or PrestaShop.

As part of our Product and Engineering department, you’ll manage a talented group of 6 engineers over two teams. Together, you’ll define the "Pay with Alma" experience, ensuring it seamlessly integrates into diverse e-commerce ecosystems, and offers a smooth integration experience for partners and merchants alike.

In your day-to-day work, you’ll collaborate closely with the Product Manager, business stakeholders (Partnership, Sales), and Solution Engineering. Your mission will include tackling challenges such as:

• Establishing and enforcing API design standards for easy and quick integration.
• Staying ahead of evolving CMS platform updates.
• Enhancing user experiences to drive higher conversion rates.
• Optimizing the product for robust performance.

About the mission

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of our merchant and partner API product, ensuring high availability, scalability, and ease of use for developers.
• Drive the development and maintenance of modules and plugins for platforms like PrestaShop, Magento, WooCommerce, Adobe Commerce, SFCC, and Sylius, ensuring seamless integration with Alma.
• Collaborate closely with the Product people to identify emerging merchant needs and lead workshops to define robust technical solutions.
• Engage with internal business stakeholders to understand merchants or partners needs and help formulate integration requirements.
• Monitor module and API performance, ensuring compliance with security standards and delivering a reliable experience for merchants and consumers alike.
• Champion software quality, advocating for and contributing to the development of comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.
• Develop and maintain documentation, including public-facing resources, to make Alma’s integration process smooth for merchant customers.

Our technical stack includes: Python (API), PHP (CMS), Docker, React, GCP, Kubernetes, Postgres, Redis, PubSub, Datadog.

About you

You will be the ideal candidate if you have:

• 3+ years of relevant work experience with e-commerce platforms, SDKs, or public APIs.
• An experience with managing or mentoring engineers.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or a related field.
• Familiarity with API management platforms, API versioning and developer experience best practices.
• Knowledge of Python is a plus, as our product API are written in this language.
• Comfortable with basic frontend technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Solid understanding of relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL.
• Mastery of version control systems (Git) and familiar with continuous integration tools (GitHub CI).
• Experience in payment or finance solutions is a plus.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a proven ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.
• Fluent in French and good level of English (at least B2 Independent User)

About the recruitment process

• Interview with Talent Acquisition (30-45 min)
• Interview with Engineering Manager (45-60 min)
• Take-home Coding test, followed by a remote feedback session (30 min)
• Live System Design interview (60 min)
• Team Fit interview (60 min)