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Senior Data Engineer - Data Platform 🇪🇺 (Remote)
PennylaneFranceRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 16 Nov 2025
About the role
Are you looking to have an impact on the daily life of millions of entrepreneurs in France (and tomorrow in Europe)?Are you looking for a work environment that values trust, proactivity, and autonomy?Are our <a href="https://medium.com/pennylane-engineering/our-engineering-principles-ab0613a0574d" rel="noopener noreferrer">Engineering principles</a> aligned with your vision?Then Pennylane is the right place for you !<br/><b>Our vision</b>We aim to become the most beloved financial Operating System of French SMEs (and soon, European ones).We help entrepreneurs rid themselves of time-consuming tasks related to accounting and finance while providing them with access to key financial information to assist in making the best decisions for their business.<br/><b>About us</b>Pennylane is one of the fastest growing Fintechs in France (and soon to be in Europe!)<br/>In 4 years of existence, we’ve managed to :💻 Make ourselves known as a groundbreaking accounting and financial software for small businesses and their accountants💰 Raise a total of €150 millions, including from Sequoia, the famous fund from the Silicon Valley who invested early in companies like Google, Facebook, Airbnb, Stripe, Paypal and much more...👨👩👧👦 Grow from 7 cofounders to 500+ happy Pennylaners : we’re now recognized as one of the greatest places to work in France (and also remotely), with a 4.6/5 rating on <a href="https://www.glassdoor.fr/Avis/Pennylane-France-Avis-E4171708.htm" rel="noopener noreferrer">Glassdoor</a>.🌍 Build an international environment with more than 25 nationalities, with a strong remote-friendly culture, where 30% of the employees are already working from all parts of Europe🤝 Earn the trust of thousands of customers and accounting firms and obtain <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=pennylane&ei=O9pOYvm0Co-blwSmhKmIAw&ved=0ahUKEwi5vsWL-4H3AhWPzYUKHSZCCjEQ4dUDCA4&uact=5&oq=pennylane&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMyDQgAEIAEELEDEIMBEAoyCwguEIAEEMcBEK8BMgcIABCABBAKMgcIABCABBAKMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEMgcIABCABBAKMgcIABCABBAKMgcIABCABBAKOgcIABBHELADOgkIABCwAxAKEEM6CgguEMcBEK8BEAo6BggAEBYQHjoICAAQFhAKEB46DQguEIAEEMcBEK8BEApKBAhBGABKBAhGGABQ7QFY6wVgugdoAXABeACAAUiIAbMCkgEBNZgBAKABAcgBCcABAQ&sclient=gws-wiz" rel="noopener noreferrer">outstanding ratings</a>🚀 Already more than 200,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and over 3,500 accounting firms use Pennylane in France!<br/><b>WHY this position is of utmost importance to reach our mission</b>At Pennylane, every decision that is not backed by data is likely to be challenged (when data is available of course). This culture is embraced by the leadership team, and actively promoted everywhere. The role of the data team is to make this possible by treating data like a production asset, making it available company-wide, and using it proactively to improve Pennylane’s user experience.<br/>By joining us as a Senior Data Engineer, you will have a pivotal role in large projects, bringing your data architecture and engineering expertise to help us meet our high delivery standards.<br/><b>HOW you will contribute to the company</b>As a Senior Data Engineer, you will join the Platform and Services team, which is part of our data engineering community (10+ people) within our dynamic Data department (25+ people).<br/>- You will continue designing our data platform, from data ingestion and validation to transport, storage, and exposure to consumers.- You will collaborate with other data engineering teams focused on delivering analytics services, sharing technical knowledge and defining best practices, and guiding them in the configuration of core systems such as data warehousing and orchestration.- You will work hand in hand with machine learning engineers to design and scale automation and intelligence features into the Pennylane application.- You will partner with software engineers to ensure data quality and integrity, acting as a role model to establish data as a core part of our production systems.- You will drive optimizations on our core components to maintain an effective balance between scalability and costs.- You will shape an engineering culture with high standards in the data team by defining best practices, architecture patterns and security measures.<br/><b>WHAT you can expect from your life at Pennylane</b><b>Within one month:</b>- You will learn everything about our company, our teams, and our vision during the first onboarding week.- You will get familiar with our stack, and have delivered a few small projects which will give you a concrete taste of our tools & processes.- You will be given time to meet your future stakeholders, and gain a deep knowledge of our product and operations.<br/><b>Within 3 months:</b>- You will be fully in charge of items in our roadmap, defining and prioritizing your tasks autonomously.- You will be confortable with our technical stack (AWS services, infrastructure as code, batch processing, scheduling
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