Software Backend Engineer - Senior / Confirmed (Paris or Remote France)

Alma is a company reinventing finance to serve merchants and consumers with innovative payment solutions. They are seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to create APIs and backend components for payment systems, ensuring high quality and performance standards while collaborating with product teams.

Responsibilities:

• Create APIs and backend components that enable payments for thousands of merchants and millions of consumers
• Write maintainable code that meets the highest quality, security, and performance standards expected of a regulated company processing billions of euros
• Evolve the architecture to meet growing business needs in close collaboration with the product team and other technical leaders
• Take the lead in production issues and performance troubleshooting, upgrading our product to achieve greater reliability in the long run

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• minimum 8 years of relevant work experience with large-scale backend systems (internships and apprenticeships experience excluded)
• Proficiency with Python and relational databases
• fluent in French and a good level in English mandatory
• ability to influence how businesses and products are developed
• methodical, possess strong communication and problem-solving skills, and can work effectively within a cross-functional team
• Experience in building payment or financial solutions