Engineering Manager @Alma

[Hiring] Engineering Manager @Alma

Mar 21, 2025 - Alma is hiring a remote Engineering Manager. đź’¸ Salary: unspecified. đź“ŤLocation: France.

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Role Description

We're 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.

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
  • Optimising the product for robust performance

As an Engineering Manager - CMS and Integrations, your main responsibilities are:

  • 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:

  • Python (API)
  • PHP (CMS)
  • Docker
  • React
  • GCP
  • Kubernetes
  • Postgres
  • Redis
  • PubSub
  • Datadog

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or a related field
  • 3+ years of relevant work experience with e-commerce platforms, SDKs, or public APIs (internships and apprenticeships excluded), including experience with managing or mentoring engineers
  • Familiarity with API management platforms, API versioning and developer experience best practices
  • 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)
  • Fluent in French and good level of English mandatory
  • Methodical, possess excellent communication skills, with a proven ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams
  • Knowledge of Python is a plus as our product API are written in this language!
  • Experience in payment or finance solutions is a plus!

Requirements

  • Phone interview with Recruiter (30-45 mins)
  • Hiring Manager interview (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)

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