Senior Freelance Scala Software Engineer, Swan
Team Payment
Embedded finance platform
Be an early applicant
Embedded finance platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower all kinds of digital companies to transform their UX and start embedding banking features within minutes.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: From 4-5 years as a Software Developer with a strong grasp of back-end systems
- Mastery of common back-end issues (perfomance improvements, observability, database queries (SQL) and SQL performance improvements)
- Good knowledge of a JVM language (Kotlin, Scala or Java)
- Hands-on experience with automated testing & CI/CD
- Bonus: Familiarity with GraphQL, Kafka, and microservices architecture
- Passionate about functional programming & open source
- Always up to date with tech trends (meetups, blogs, side projects)
- Fluent in English
- Our ideal teammate: Empathetic. Skilled. Frank. We love to challenge each other, and we leave our egos at the door
What the job involves
- Swan is looking for a Senior Freelance Software Engineer to join is tech team of 70+ people for a specific project over a few months
- The Engineering team is by far the largest at Swan. This team includes Software developers, who build payments and end-customer applications, as well as Infrastructure, DevOps, QA, and Security
- We build with intent, focusing on solving real problems that matter. In a regulated environment, compliance, security, and resilience are at our core. We value ownership, open collaboration, and a shared vocabulary to keep complexity manageable
- Simplicity is key, clean, maintainable code wins over clever tricks. We ship fast, learn continuously, and always strive for excellence. 💡
- You will be technically responsible for one or more projects
- You will have the opportunity to solve problems in one of the most demanding IT domains with a reactive architecture
- You will design with the product team the bank by API
- You will improve the performance of a system with a rapidly growing load
- You will ensure the respect of the architecture rules and of the automated tests
- Our technical environment: Scala ; FPTS ; Typelevel ; PostgreSQL ; Kafka ; GraphQL ; K8S; AWS
Application process
- We usually respond within a week
- A 30-min video call with our Talent Acquisition Manager, to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions
- A live coding interview with two Software Engineers
- A hiring manager interview with an Engineering Manager
- An interview with our Engineering Director
Our take
Swan believes its services can transform a business by adding a financial layer. Swan’s APIs enable European companies to integrate banking services into their own digital product: embedded finance.
While not alone in the fintech industry, the company stands out by squarely targeting SaaS platforms, marketplaces, and other fintechs with its embedded finance products. The company, offering an end-to-end, integrated and multi-product experience coupled with the fact it owns the payment and fraud risk, has garnered the attention of impressive clients including Agricap, Carrefour, Pennylane and Ride.
The company has invested into accelerating its expansion into the European market by developing more banking features that are specialized for a variety of local EU markets and enhancing the platform’s functionality with a self-service offering. Swan is gaining momentum with its expansion efforts and is well set to remain on this path.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
78% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2025
$48.6m
SERIES B
Sep 2023
$42.9m
SERIES B
Total funding: $115.8m
Company benefits
- ESOP packages available
- Flexible remote policy
- Swan encourages you to have fun staying fit, thanks to partnerships with Classpass & Gymlib
- Twice a year we go somewhere gorgeous (a chateau, a mountain) where we reconnect, deep-dive into big topics, and relax
- The best health insurance
- We provide a Swile card to cover your meal on work days
- Extra holidays (RTT)
Company HQ
Porte-Saint-Martin, Paris, France
Leadership
Nicolas Benady
(CEO)Previously co-founded Antelop Solutions and, earlier, PriceMinister. Acted as Product Manager for French Market of VISA Europe, President of Limonetik, IT Project Manager for AXA Cessions, and was a Team Member for Endless Winter.
Nicolas Saison
(COO)Previous experience as Vice President of Product for Payboost, Digital IT Manager for AXA France, Payment Project Director for Limonetik, and as a Developer and Risk Manager for AXA.
Mathieu Breton
(CTO)Previously co-founded and acted as CTO for JS-Republic. Experience as Senior Software Engineer for Xebia France, Software Engineer for BT Global Services, and Web Developer for éQuin gestion.
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