Engineering Manager - Alma Wallet

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🧡 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 , i

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