[Hiring] Senior Fullstack Software Engineer @Pennylane SAS

Role Description

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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Benefits

• You'll be able to work remotely from your country of residence, as long as it is in Europe and within a maximum time difference of two hours from the CET time zone.
• Wherever you are based, you will get 30 vacation days paid by Pennylane.
• You’ll have a competitive compensation package.
• You'll get company shares to enjoy a piece of the success story you're building with us.
• You’ll have 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.
• Through our partner Gymlib, you’ll have access to 8000 fitness spaces in Europe and more than 300 activities related to wellness.
• You’ll have access to Busuu to perfect your English or your French.
• You’ll get the latest Apple equipment.
• We are committed to regularly coming together for company events such as Tech Days (which bring remote Pennylaners together every 3 months) or our annual company seminar, fostering significant moments of cohesion for everyone.

Company Description

Pennylane is one of the fastest growing Fintechs in France (and soon to be in Europe!). In 6 years of existence, we’ve managed to:

• Make ourselves known as a groundbreaking accounting and financial software for small businesses and their accountants.
• Raise a total of €400 million, including from Sequoia, the famous fund from Silicon Valley.
• Grow from 7 cofounders to 1100+ happy Pennylaners, recognized as one of the greatest places to work in France.
• Build an international environment with more than 25 nationalities, with a strong remote-friendly culture.
• Earn the trust of thousands of customers and accounting firms and obtain outstanding ratings.
• Already more than 1,300,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and over 6,500 accounting firms use Pennylane in France!