Staff Engineer, Alma
Buy now, pay later solutions
Job no longer available
Buy now, pay later solutions
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To put finance back in its rightful place: at the service of merchants and consumers!
Role
Who you are
- Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Experience: Minimum 8 years of relevant work experience with large-scale backend systems, including 2 years in a Staff Engineer role or equivalent cross-team Architect position. Experience with Python is mandatory
- Languages: Fluent in French and a good level in English
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with a cross-functional team and between teams
- Experience in building payment or financial solutions is a plus!
What the job involves
- We're currently looking for a Staff Engineer to work with our Foundation and Experience teams, who are responsible for developing our payment systems and designing our customer interactions
- These teams deliver business-critical capabilities such as:
- Ensure the system's financial accuracy by tracking cashflows in real-time
- Onboard new merchants and provide them with tools to get the best out of our product
- Integrate with merchants’ websites and checkouts, as well as provide point-of-sale solutions
- 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)
- Offer a frictionless purchase experience and put our consumers in control of their credit
- As a Staff Engineer, your main missions are to:
- Contribute to the evolution of the Engineering department strategy by identifying the right technical projects and migrations in order to scale
- Launch and lead these projects, acting as an owner and decision maker, as well as coordinating stakeholders and contributors
- Establish and evangelize the best practices and standards across squads to mentor 50+ engineers and ensure the high level of quality required in our industry
- Deep dive with teams on complex problems related to architecture or performance
Application process
- Interview with Talent Acquisition (30 min)
- Interview with Engineering Managers (60 min)
- Take-home Coding test, following by a remote feedback session (30 min)
- Live System Design interview (60 min)
- Team Fit interview (60 min)
Our take
Alma is a leading European buy now, pay later (BNPL) company. It's focused on merchants, and provides instalment and deferred payment solutions to help them increase customer loyalty and generate extra sales revenue.
The BNPL industry has taken off in Europe in recent years, with many people now opting for this rather than credit cards. Lots of companies have capitalised on this new opportunity, including the likes of Klarna and Alma, fintechs like Monzo, and card giants like MasterCard.
Despite competition in the space, Alma has grown significantly in recent years. It took advantage of the fact that Klarna (the dominant force in Europe) wasn't in France when first launching in its domestic market. Now, more than 13,000 brands use Alma, including Sandro, The Kooples, and Samsonite. It is focused on expansion and partnerships (such as its 2023 partnership with leading payment operations platform Numeral) to win the rest of the European BNPL market.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Feb 2022
$132.6m
SERIES C
Jan 2021
$56.5m
SERIES B
Total funding: $207.4m
Company HQ
Porte-Saint-Denis, Paris, France
Leadership
Louis Chatriot
(CEO)Previously General Manager for Italy at Stripe, and Country Manager (France) at Local Motion. Co-founded Tame, where they served as CTO until 2014.
Guillaume Desloges
(COO)Previously worked at Mazars Acturiat, first as a Senior Quantitative Analyst and later becoming Senior Manager of Mazars Quantitative Solutions.
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