Senior Fullstack Software Engineer

Who you are

• Have strong hands-on experience with Ruby on Rails and React (at least 7-8 years)
• Combine technical expertise with strong product and business understanding, enjoy solving complex problems and care deeply about your users
• Are a collaborative team player, communicate clearly and take ownership of delivering reliable, pragmatic solutions
• Like being challenged and solving complex problems (accounting is complex in Europe)
• Have strong communication skills and are capable of articulating your ideas clearly
• We know that some people are less likely to apply than others, if they don’t feel like they meet the full list of criteria
• If you’re hesitating, we encourage you to apply : who knows, it might be the start of a meaningful and long-lasting collaboration

What the job involves

• As a Senior Software Engineer at Pennylane, your squad is your primary focus. You will contribute to building reliable, scalable and user-focused products, while helping the engineers around you grow and raising the quality of our technical execution. You will:
• Understand and frame user and product problems, using your product knowledge to help your squad deliver simple, pragmatic and valuable solutions
• Lead significant technical deliveries within your squad, from understanding the problem to designing, implementing, testing and operating the solution in production
• Investigate and resolve complex production issues, using monitoring, observability and data analysis tools to identify root causes and prevent recurrence
• Design and evolve robust solutions, identifying performance, scalability and reliability opportunities and turning them into pragmatic technical improvements
• Bring strong expertise in at least one major part of our stack, while being able to join a new team and become autonomous on a high-impact initiative within a few weeks
• Improve engineering practices across the organization, through high-quality code reviews, pair programming, documentation, RFCs and the adoption of AI-assisted development without compromising software quality
• Act as a role model and a driver for other engineers, sharing knowledge, providing actionable feedback and helping the team continuously improve its technical skills and ways of working
• Collaborate effectively with other teams when needed, proactively unblocking technical topics and clearly communicating progress, risks, decisions and results to the relevant stakeholders
• Contribute to the Pennylane tech community, through technical content, onboarding, interviews, incident resolution, tech initiatives, meetups or other community-building activities

The application process

• You will first have a general chat with a Talent Acquisition Manager (30 min)
• You’ll then have a test-home assignment + a debriefing session with two of our software engineers (1 hour)
• You’ll have a last culture-fit discussion with two people from our tech leadership (1 h)
• We make sure we move fast ; you can expect the recruitment process with us to last between 15 and 25 days in total

Benefits

• Work remotely from anywhere in Europe, as long as your contract allows you to
• Company shares to enjoy a piece of the success story you're building with us
• A budget to turn your home into a more comfortable workspace, as well as a monthly allowance to work from a coworking space whenever you feel like it
• Access to 8000 fitness spaces in Europe and more than 300 activities related to wellness through our partner Gymlib
• Access to Busuu to perfect your english or your french
• The latest Apple equipment
• Be part of a vibrant social community: we do lots of sports together (running, climbing...), we love to hang out and have a drink together (Thursday afterwork drinks on our rooftop is a usual thing)
• Twice-a-year company seminars
• Wonderful office in the center of Paris
• 10 additional days off (to the 25 standard ones) for those based in France
• Lunch credits (Swile card) to buy your favorite food every day, for those based in France
• Great healthcare cover (Alan Blue) to take care of yourself and your family, for those based in France