Senior Backend Software Engineer (Ruby on Rails)

Are you looking to have an impact on the daily life of millions of entrepreneurs in France (and tomorrow in Europe)?

Are you looking for a work environment that values trust, proactivity, and autonomy?

Are our Engineering principles https://medium.com/pennylane-engineering/our-engineering-principles-ab0613a0574d aligned with your vision?

Then, Pennylane is the right place for you !

Our vision

We aim to become the most beloved financial Operating System of French SMEs (and soon, European ones).

We help entrepreneurs rid themselves of time-consuming tasks related to accounting and finance while providing them with access to key financial information to assist in making the best decisions for their business.

Simultaneously, we support accounting firms by enabling them to spend less time on redundant and repetitive tasks and more time on advising and supporting their clients. Already, over 1 300,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and more than 6,500 accounting firms use Pennylane in France!

About us

Pennylane is one of the fastest growing Fintechs in France (and soon to be in Europe!)

In 6 years of existence, we’ve managed to :

Make ourselves known as a groundbreaking accounting and financial software for small businesses and their accountants

Raise a total of €400 millions, including from Sequoia, the famous fund from the Silicon Valley who invested early in companies like Google, Facebook, Airbnb, Stripe, Paypal and much more...

‍‍‍ Grow from 7 cofounders to 1100+ happy Pennylaners : we’re now recognized as one of the greatest places to work in France (and also remotely), with a 4.6/5 rating on Glassdoor https://www.glassdoor.fr/Avis/Pennylane-France-Avis-E4171708.htm.

Build an international environment with more than 25 nationalities, with a strong remote-friendly culture, where 30% of the employees are already working from all parts of Europe

Earn the trust of thousands of customers and accounting firms and obtain outstanding ratings https://www.google.com/search?q=pennylane&ei=O9pOYvm0Co-blwSmhKmIAw&ved=0ahUKEwi5vsWL-4H3AhWPzYUKHSZCCjEQ4dUDCA4&uact=5&oq=pennylane&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMyDQgAEIAEELEDEIMBEAoyCwguEIAEEMcBEK8BMgcIABCABBAKMgcIABCABBAKMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEMgcIABCABBAKMgcIABCABBAKMgcIABCABBAKOgcIABBHELADOgkIABCwAxAKEEM6CgguEMcBEK8BEAo6BggAEBYQHjoICAAQFhAKEB46DQguEIAEEMcBEK8BEApKBAhBGABKBAhGGABQ7QFY6wVgugdoAXABeACAAUiIAbMCkgEBNZgBAKABAcgBCcABAQ&sclient=gws-wiz

Already more than 1 300,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and over 6,500 accounting firms use Pennylane in France!

HOW you will contribute to the company as a Senior Software Engineer?

As a Senior Software Engineer at Pennylane, your squad is your primary focus. You will contribute to building reliable, scalable and user-focused products, while helping the engineers around you grow and raising the quality of our technical execution. You will:

• Understand and frame user and product problems, using your product knowledge to help your squad deliver simple, pragmatic and valuable solutions.
• Lead significant technical deliveries within your squad, from understanding the problem to designing, implementing, testing and operating the solution in production.
• Investigate and resolve complex production issues, using monitoring, observability and data analysis tools to identify root causes and prevent recurrence.
• Design and evolve robust solutions, identifying performance, scalability and reliability opportunities and turning them into pragmatic technical improvements.
• Bring strong expertise in at least one major part of our stack, while being able to join a new team and become autonomous on a high-impact initiative within a few weeks.
• Improve engineering practices across the organization, through high-quality code reviews, pair programming, documentation, RFCs and the adoption of AI-assisted development without compromising software quality.
• Act as a role model and a driver for other engineers, sharing knowledge, providing actionable feedback and helping the team continuously improve its technical skills and ways of working.
• Collaborate effectively with other teams when needed, proactively unblocking technical topics and clearly communicating progress, risks, decisions and results to the relevant stakeholders.
• Contribute to the Pennylane tech community, through technical content, onboarding, interviews, incident resolution, tech initiatives, meetups or other community-building activities.

You’re the right candidate if you…

• Have strong hands-on experience with Ruby on Rails (at least 7-8 years)
• Combine technical expertise with strong product and business understanding, enjoy solving complex problems and care deeply about your users.
• Are a collaborative team player, communicate clearly and take ownership of delivering reliable, pragmatic solutions.
• Like being challenged and solving complex problems (accounting …