Engineering Manager - Alma Wallet

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

The Consumer tribe is working on its 2027 objectives: reducing friction in Alma adoption, increasing consumer lifetime value, and developing services that give consumers more autonomy and control.

To support this roadmap, the current Consumer App squad is being split into two squads: Alma Wallet and Consumer Engagement . You will help shape the Alma Wallet squad, initially composed of around five engineers from the existing Consumer App squad and future hires. Depending on the timing of the split, you may first join the current Consumer App squad.

You will report to Tony and work closely with Justine, Product Manager , to build the Alma Wallet product. Gautier, Engineering Manager , leads the sister Consumer Engagement squad.

This position is a CDI based in Paris, with a hybrid work model.

About the job

• 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