Engineering Manager – Payroll team

Role Overview

• Ensure technical excellence: Guarantee high standards of engineering quality by making sound architectural decisions, ensuring code quality, reliability, and best practices across the team.
• People growth: Support the growth and development of engineers through regular feedback, coaching, and career development opportunities, fostering an engaged, high-performing team.
• Stakeholder management: Collaborate closely with product, design, and cross-functional stakeholders to align on priorities, manage expectations, and ensure successful delivery.
• Co-building the domain vision: Partner with product managers to shape and evolve the domain vision, translating business strategy into scalable and sustainable technical solutions.

Requirements

• You have proven experience leading and growing engineering teams, with a strong focus on empowerment, collaboration, and ownership.
• You enjoy staying hands-on as a technical leader, guiding the team’s delivery from design through implementation.
• You demonstrate strong problem-solving skills, effectively balancing business priorities with technical trade-offs, particularly in transformation contexts or when working with evolving systems.
• You apply and promote software engineering best practices, including code quality, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines.
• You have experience with event-driven design or architectures (EDA) and apply Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles to build scalable, well-structured systems.
• It’s a plus if you are comfortable with TypeScript, Node.js, React, and the broader JavaScript ecosystem.
• You are passionate about building innovative products used by thousands of users.
• You have experience with distributed systems and production-scale architectures.
• You are familiar with cloud environments and operational excellence (monitoring, reliability, scalability).
• You enjoy working closely with product and design to deliver customer value.

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• JavaScript
• Node.js
• React
• TypeScript

Benefits

• Flexibility: We believe it’s essential for you to do your best work and feel fulfilled. We therefore offer the option to work from our main offices in France, as well as abroad for a defined period. Additional requirements may apply depending on the role and your overall experience.
• Learning & development: At PayFit we provide a comprehensive learning platform to help you acquire new skills daily, supported by the company. We also offer English language courses to improve your professional communication vocabulary and reach the next level.
• Career development: We want you to grow and be free to choose the direction you want to take. Internal mobility opportunities are also available.
• Health insurance: Henner health insurance (60% covered by PayFit, free coverage for children).
• Transport: 50% of public transport costs are covered by PayFit for those living in Île-de-France, or a sustainable mobility allowance (bike rental subscription, purchase of soft-mobility equipment for commuting, etc.).
• Meals: A meal card with our partner Swile (€9 per working day).
• Works council allowance: A monthly allowance to spend on culture, sports, personal services, etc., plus a holiday bonus.
• Remote work budget: An annual monetary contribution to help you set up your home-working conditions. A MacBook is our standard work device.
• Parental support program: Salary continuation during the first month of parental leave.
• Leave: 25 days of annual leave + RTT days (according to contract).
• Disability inclusion: All our positions are open to people living with disabilities. To ensure equal treatment and opportunities, we will take appropriate measures to accommodate the working conditions of PayFiters with disabilities based on individual needs, and if necessary also during the recruitment process. Please let us know what you need and we will do our best to accommodate you!