Engineering Manager - Alma Wallet

🧡 About Alma

At Alma, we believe sustainable commerce depends on fair, well‑balanced trade. Because finance plays a pivotal role in business, our mission is to put it back in its rightful place - serving merchants and consumers. Our installment and deferred payment solutions help merchants boost sales by 20% or more, increase customer loyalty, and deliver a seamless shopping experience - without encouraging bad debt. As the buy now pay later leader in France and active in 10 European countries, we've empowered over +25,000 merchants and 10 million consumers. With 400+ Almakers and €100M+ ARR, Alma is scaling rapidly across Europe as a member of the Next40, and we're just getting started!

👐 About the team

Alma Wallet builds the payment experience of the Alma app. With the Alma card, consumers can pay with Alma anywhere, not only at our partner merchants. In the app, they manage their payments with the method of their choice: Apple Pay, Google Pay or local payment methods. By taking Alma beyond our merchant network, the Alma card is one of the company's key strategic bets. You will report to Tony, Senior Engineering Manager, and work closely with Justine, Product Manager, to bring it to life.

This position is a CDI based in Paris, with a hybrid work model.

💼 About the job

• Deliver the Alma Wallet roadmap: the Alma card, and bringing new payment methods (Apple Pay, Google Pay, local payment methods), identity verification and Open Banking to the mobile app.
• Lead and grow the Alma Wallet squad by supporting engineers’ development, hiring the right profiles and creating an environment where the team can do its best work.
• Build an effective delivery system by improving team processes, rituals and collaboration with Product, Design and the other Consumer squads.
• Deliver a strategic payment roadmap covering the Alma card, Apple Pay and Google Pay, local payment methods, the consumer point-of-sale experience, identity verification and Open Banking.
• Raise the technical bar and protect reliability through code reviews, technical design discussions and a strong focus on the quality and resilience of payment flows.

🧰 You will work with

• Mobile: Expo / EAS, React Native, TypeScript, TanStack Query, Redux Toolkit, Zod, Reanimated, Jest, Detox. Payment SDKs: Adyen, Stripe, Checkout.com.
• Back-end: Python, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, Redis, Pub/Sub.
• Infra & observability: GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, ArgoCD, Datadog, Sentry, OpenFeature.
• Tools: GitHub, Linear, Notion, Figma.

🧩 About you

To succeed in this job

• You have 3+ years of experience managing or leading engineers, including hiring and supporting team development.
• You have strong hands-on technical credibility in mobile or back-end engineering, and are comfortable reviewing code and leading architecture discussions.
• You have experience delivering products in a cross-functional squad with Product and Design.
• You are fluent in both French and English.

And it will be nice if you also

• Have experience in fintech or another regulated environment.
• Have worked with payment methods, payment service providers or PSP SDK integrations.
• Have contributed to a consumer mobile application used at scale.
• Have mobile engineering experience, ideally with React Native.

Don't meet every single requirement? At Alma, we believe great hires come from diverse paths. If this role excites you, we encourage you to apply. We value potential, curiosity and the ability to grow as much as experience.

🧘 What's in it for you

If you join, you will be able to grow and impact on:

• Shape the Alma Wallet squad from the ground up, helping define its ways of working, team culture and engineering practices.
• Own projects at the heart of Alma’s strategy, including the Alma card, Apple Pay and Google Pay, local payment methods and the evolution of the consumer payment experience.
• Work on a modern, end-to-end product stack, from Expo, React Native, React 19 and TypeScript 7 on mobile to Python and FastAPI on the back-end.

🤑 Compensation & benefits

• Competitive salary based on 12 months
• Profit-sharing and employee savings plan
• Health insurance: 100% covered by Alma including family package
• Disability insurance: 100% covered by Alma
• Sport: partnerships with Gymlib and Classpass, or €30/month reimbursement for your sports activities
• Maternity/paternity leave: salary maintained at 100% during leave with no seniority requirement. Return to work at 4/5 schedule paid at 100% for 8 weeks.
• Sustainable Mobility Package (FMD): €544.80/year (excluding full-remote contracts)
• Meal vouchers: €10/day, 50% covered by Alma
• Mental health: free access to MindDay platform
• Paid time off: 25 days/year (+ additional paid leave granted for employees on executive contracts)
• Access to our Learning & Development Platform
• 2 weeks of full remote possible per year in summer

🎯 Interview Process

• Video screen with Sara, Talent Acquisition Manager — 30–45 minutes to discuss your experience, motivation and the role.
• Experience interview with Tony Miksa, Hiring Manager — 45 minutes to explore your management experience, technical background and fit with the team.
• Coding test with a Software Engineering interviewer — 45–90 minutes, depending on your main programming language.
• System design interview with a Staff Engineer interviewer — 60 minutes to discuss architecture, technical trade-offs and reliability.
• Coffee chat with members of the Consumer tribe — 60 minutes with a combination of Product and Engineering team members.
• Reference checks — two professional references.

🌍 Diversity & Inclusion

At Alma, we believe that diversity fuels innovation and makes our community stronger. We are committed to building a workplace where every person feels seen, respected, and empowered to do their best work whatever their gender, background, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion, disability or lived experience. As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applicants from all walks of life, and all employment decisions are made based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.