Engineering Manager - Merchant Experience (Paris)

Alma shapes the fintech landscape. We strive to serve and empower consumers and merchants by developing innovative solutions that redefine their purchase experience.

About the job

We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our CMS and Integration teams. These teams play a crucial role in bringing Alma's payment solutions to life through our public APIs, direct integrations in payment service providers such as Stripe, and on major e-commerce platforms like Shopify or PrestaShop.

As part of our Product and Engineering department, you’ll manage a talented group of 6 engineers over two teams. Together, you’ll define the "Pay with Alma" experience, ensuring it seamlessly integrates into diverse e-commerce ecosystems, and offers a smooth integration experience for partners and merchants alike.

In your day-to-day work, you’ll collaborate closely with the Product Manager, business stakeholders (Partnership, Sales), and Solution Engineering. Your mission will include tackling challenges such as:

• Establishing and enforcing API design standards for easy and quick integration

• Staying ahead of evolving CMS platform updates

• Enhancing user experience to drive higher conversion rates

• Optimising the product for robust performance

About the mission

As an Engineering Manager - CMS and Integrations, your main responsibilities are:

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of our merchant and partner API product, ensuring high availability, scalability, and ease of use for developers

• Drive the development and maintenance of modules and plugins for platforms like PrestaShop, Magento, WooCommerce, Adobe Commerce, SFCC, and Sylius, ensuring seamless integration with Alma

• Collaborate closely with the Product people to identify emerging merchant needs and lead workshops to define robust technical solutions

• Engage with internal business stakeholders to understand merchants or partners needs and help formulate integration requirements

• Monitor module and API performance, ensuring compliance with security standards and delivering a reliable experience for merchants and consumers alike

• Champion software quality, advocating for and contributing to the development of comprehensive unit, integration, and end-to-end tests

• Develop and maintain documentation, including public-facing resources, to make Alma’s integration process smooth for merchant customers

Our technical stack: Python (API), PHP (CMS), Docker, React, GCP, Kubernetes, Postgres, Redis, PubSub, Datadog.

What makes you the ideal candidate for our role?

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or a related field

• Experience: 3+ years of relevant work experience with e-commerce platforms, SDKs, or public APIs (internships and apprenticeships excluded), including an experience in managing engineers

• Familiarity with API management platforms, API versioning and developer experience best practices

• Comfortable with basic frontend technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

• Solid understanding of relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL

• Mastery of version control systems (Git) and familiar with continuous integration tools (GitHub CI)

• Language: fluent in French and good level of English mandatory

• You're methodical, possess excellent communication skills, with a proven ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams

• Knowledge of Python is a plus as our product API are written in this language!

• Experience in payment or finance solutions is a plus!

About the recruitment process

• Phone interview with Recruiter (30-45 mins)

• Hiring Manager interview (60 mins)

• Live system design interview (60 mins)

• Take-home coding test, following by a remote feedback session (30 mins)

• Team Fit interview (30 mins)