Senior Software Engineer - Payroll

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Do you want to help us shape what the future of work will look like and how it will best embrace our life's aspirations? If this sounds like a journey you want to embark on, we may have the right role for you! PayFit is an intuitive software as a service payroll and HRIS solution designed specifically for SMBs. Since 2015, we have set ourselves a mission to simplify payroll for SMBs and enable employers and employees to grow together. We are a European company operating from 3 main countries (France, Spain, and the UK) where we are supporting over 20,000 clients.

Creating a fulfilling work environment and culture is also a core mission at PayFit, and our day-to-day work philosophy is reflected in our four values:

Care: We genuinely care for others whoever they are, whatever they think.

Excellence: We aim to improve and achieve better results every day.

Humility: Staying humble and exchanging transparent feedback helps us to grow and improve.

Passion: We are the architects of PayFit's success.

A key part of our culture, and essential for our success, is also improving the diversity of our teams and building an inclusive culture where you can be yourself at work.

This is why our recruitment focuses on the skills you demonstrate, and not only on your academic background or previous professional experiences. At PayFit we understand that you can gain applicable skills through a variety of life experiences and we are interested in knowing them, too.

Location :
Flexible location: work remotely from anywhere in France or Spain

Position Overview :

Your mission will be to contribute to the whole development process, from system design to delivery monitoring. The Payroll Squad is a Global Team at PayFit that ensures our clients can manage their payroll reliably and on time. We build and operate the services that calculate monthly payroll, generate payslips, apply payroll corrections autonomously within the month, and provide real-time previews of payslips.
Our current challenges are:

• Evolving and scaling our payroll computation and payslip generation services across France, Spain and the UK to guarantee accuracy, reliability, and on-time delivery at scale.

• Strengthen our event-driven and domain-driven architectures to improve correctness, observability, and developer velocity across a broad, multi-country domain.
  

There are a lot of exciting opportunities ahead, both in terms of product and tech!

This role is for you if :

• You are a Senior Engineer with 6+ years of experience

• You are comfortable with Typescript, Node.js, React and Javascript ecosystem overall

• You are comfortable with AWS services, especially with serverless components (Lambda, Step functions, workflow orchestration)

• You are comfortable with Infrastructure as Code and deploying different kinds of projects

• You can write RFCs, discuss them, and reach conclusions

• You are a Problem solver: You are a pragmatic and product-driven engineer who is interested in solving problems and delivering value while taking into account business <> tech tradeoffs.

• You are a Team player: You have good communication skills, are comfortable working in a partially remote team, and can easily work with non-technical colleagues

• You like using Best Practices: You are an organized, rigorous engineer who follows best practices regarding code quality, clean architecture, testing, monitoring, code reviews, and CI/CD

• You are fluent in English

It would be great if also :

•  You have hands-on experience with Domain-Driven Design and Event-Driven Architecture. Able to help the team transition toward the new architectural vision. You like to seek opportunities and build strategies

• You are an Impact Maker: You are creative, passionate about building things, and want to help build an innovative product used by thousands of users

•  You are excited and willing to discover the domain of declaration across countries (France, Spain, and the UK)

If you think you would be a good fit even if you don't meet 100% of the requirements, we would love to hear from you!

Your Future Team:
A Payroll squad is a team of 4 Software Engineers with an Engineering Manager leading the team, and a Prod