Product & Engineering at Alma

Product & Engineering Organization at Alma is divided into five Impact Teams, composed of one or several squads and three Specialist Teams.

The Impact Teams are defined by their mission:

• Merchant Acquisition: Improve Alma Product Market Fit and ensure the Product fits the requirements of our prospects
• Merchant Performance: Make our existing merchants as performant as possible
• International: Conquer new markets by adapting the Product to each country specificities
• Scale: Ensure Alma can pursue dynamic growth in an efficient and sustainable manner
• D2C: Provide the best experience to users to pay everywhere with Alma

The Specialist Teams work on specific technologies and areas:

• Integration: Provide Alma offering at speed while making plug & play modules for merchants on e-commerce platforms
• Platform: Develop our platform on four pillars, Infrastructure, Security, Data, and dev experience
• Risk: Limit the frauds and outstanding payments

Those teams are also supported by User Researchers and Product Designers who make us level up in terms of discovery methodologies, practices and tooling.

What we value in Product & Engineering at Alma

One team: Product & Engineering have the same objectives and work together to reach them. We expect engineers to take part in Product thinking on future iterations, and we expect product managers to take into account issues such as technical debt.

Discovery: The Product Manager’s role is to take the heat out of the debate on product evolution by providing strong evidence thanks to discovery.

Ownership: Squads are responsible for achieving their goals and therefore have the freedom to define how they do it.

Autonomy: Each team can modify any part of the Product if it is relevant to reach their objectives, therefore, limiting the dependencies.

What you’ll do

Working with Thierry, our Head of Engineering, and other Engineering Managers, to drive, empower your team and give each team member the resources they need to architect and implement new features and solve issues on our product. As a true People Manager, and through coaching and mentoring you will be helping engineers in your team to write maintainable, scalable, and well-tested code.

As part of your responsibilities, you will:

• Lead a group of talented engineers made of 7 to 10 people
• Ensure the team has the right resources, tools and skills to succeed in their role
• Motivate and empower the teams to enhance engagement and performance
• Define team and individual goals in line with Alma's objectives, plan and monitor their achievements and ensure the performance of the team
• Anticipate, organise and monitor the activities of the team, allocate the right resources for the right objectives
• In collaboration with the People Team and the Head of Engineering, anticipate and plan your team evolution, participate to the definition of the needs and requirements, and actively contribute to the hiring process to grow the team
• Partner with the other EMs and Head of Engineering to build an optimise the Engineering vision, strategy and processes
• Ensure a strong onboarding for new joiners and ongoing training and shadowing
• Act as a role model, share best practices and encourage peers and team members to strive
• Use an individualised approach to identify development potential, performance challenges and put in place action plans to help the team grow professionally and help individual career progressions
• Provide continuous and constructive feedback
• Partner closely with your Product counterparts to shape the vision for your team and create the both long and short term technology roadmap for your team, align this with the overall company strategy as well as with the priorities from business

You may be a fit if…

• You have a strong technical background (read, write, review code) and at least 3 years in a People Management role
• You value simplicity, performance and details.
• You have demonstrated that you can learn and adapt quickly.
• You want to work in a fast, high-growth startup environment.
• You are fluent in English and have experience working in an international environment.

Our Tech stack includes:

• Python (Flask / FastAPI), Postgresql, Google Cloud Platform, Datadog and more on the backend
• React, TypeScript on the frontend

Practical informations :

• Offices in Paris (2ème arrondissement) and Rennes
• A first call (30 to 45’) with one of our Talent Acquisition Managers
• A video-call (60’) with Thierry, Head of Engineering or an EM
• A full remote exercise and correction
• A Team FIT