Who are we? 

PayFit simplifies payroll management and HR processes for SMBs. PayFit is an automated SaaS solution to help business owners and HR professionals save time and money allowing them to refocus on what really matters: their employees. Since 2015, we have set ourselves a mission to support the digital transformation of HR management through our ever growing range of product features and services. We have a strong presence in France and have been quickly growing in Germany, Spain and the UK. With 8,000 customers in 4 countries, we are one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in Europe.

Our values 

PayFit is successful not only because of our product but because of our culture. Today, we are more than 1000 employees at PayFit and we all share four core values. It’s important to us that we: 

- Care for each other  

- Always stay humble

- Strive for excellence

- Live and work with passion  

We are committed to a culture of inclusion and an environment that enables fulfillment in freedom & responsibility. To find out more about what working at PayFit in London is like, click here.

Who are we?

PayFit simplifies payroll management and HR processes for SMBs. PayFit is an automated SaaS solution to help business owners and HR professionals save time and money allowing them to refocus on what really matters: their employees.

Since 2015, we have set ourselves a mission to support the digital transformation of HR management through our ever growing range of product features and services. We have a strong presence in France and have been quickly growing in Germany, Spain, and the UK. With 6,500 customers in 4 countries, we are one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in Europe.

Today, we are more than 700 employees at PayFit and we all share four core values:

 - Care for each other

 - Always stay humble

 - Strive for excellence

 - Live and work with passion

We are committed to a culture of inclusion and an environment that enables fulfillment in freedom & responsibility.

You want to join us? This video is better than a long description…

What will be your role?

Get onboard of the PayFit rocket by joining our User Access team as a Senior Software Engineer.

Your mission will be to contribute to scale our technical vision up while always bringing more value to our product

You will be responsible for:

- Challenging our current architecture and design new systems with the team

- Participating actively to our agile ceremonies

- Participating to workshops for transversal tech initiatives

- Handling eventual bugs with the team

- Monitoring errors - SLOs analysis and updates

- Contributing to team releases (CI/CD)

- Developing high quality features with the team and performing code reviews

- Participating in giving design reviews and running some discoveries with the product team

This job has been tailored for you if

You have the following qualities:

- You are experienced in designing clean architectures for projects, making them performant and scalable while taking into account business vs. tech tradeoffs

- You have a good knowledge of the Node.js ecosystem

- You enjoy developing with TypeScript for the backend and the frontend

- You always care about code quality and the usage of best practices (e.g. design patterns, secure coding, optimization)

- You are familiar with virtualization & CI/CD tools

- You are familiar with the monitoring of instances and know how to set meaningful SLOs

- You know how to engage the team in staying positive and focused

- You never hesitate to share your knowledge with the team and learn from it in return as well

- You really care about the user experience and always think about how to bring more value to the product

- You can write and speak fluently in english

We would be even more impressed if you have:

- A good knowledge about authentication & authorization management systems,

- or a significative experience in API design & integration.

Hiring process

- Validation of the application

- HR Telephone interview - 30 minutes

- Interview with the Engineering Manager of the team - 45 minutes

- Technical interview around one of the following two options:

A short live coding session followed by an open technical discussion with engineers of the team - 1 hour 30 minutes

or a chat with engineers of the team about a small development exercise you will be asked to do before the meeting, followed by an open technical discussion.

- Meeting with the Product Manager and/or the Product Designer of the team - 30 minutes

- Interview with the Engineering Director - 30 minutes

- Background check to verify your identity, diploma and past professional experience in the context of your ISO27001 certification

What we offer

- An international and dynamic team with the opportunity to visit our different offices (Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, London)

- A work from anywhere policy to allow you flexibility in regards to where and when you want to work

- 150 euros equipment budget to comfortably work from home

- A gym at our Paris office and a Gymlib membership with preferential rates

- Restaurant tickets card (Swile)

- 20 weeks of maternity leave supported by PayFit and 4 weeks of partner leave (Signed the Parental Act)

- Health insurance (supported to 60% by PayFit)

- One day per year dedicated to volunteer for an association

- A fulfilling and inclusive workplace, offering equal opportunities for any minority, disability, gender identity and sexual orientation. Don’t forget: everyone fits at PayFit!

In return for this we will offer you ...

- The opportunity to ‘Work from anywhere’ - use the office or any other location as your daily working environment (including internationally for up to 6 months of the year)

- The opportunity to visit and work from our PayFit offices in London, Paris, Berlin and Barcelona

- Private medical insurance with Vitality

- UK Team Bonuses for reaching growth milestones. 

- 1 day off per year to volunteer for non-profits and charitable organisations

- We cover 50% of your travel to work costs 

- We have fortnightly fruit packages delivered to your house (to help you get your 5 a day!) 

- Weekly Deliveroo credit to spend on meals of your choice

- 25 days holiday per year

- A beautiful office in Farringdon with fruit and snacks for the team to enjoy 

- Regular social events