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Senior Frontend Engineer
PennylaneSpainRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 11 Oct 2023
About the role
Are you looking to have an impact on the daily life of millions of entrepreneurs in France and Europe? Do you thrive in a trustful, fast-paced environment? Do you feel like our Engineering principles are aligned with your vision ?
Then Pennylane might be the right place for you — and you, might be the perfect fit for this role 🙂
Our vision
We aim to become the most beloved financial Operating System of European SMEs.
We help business owners get rid of the time consuming hassle of handling accounting and finance, while giving them access to key information that they can use to make better decisions.
Meanwhile, we’re helping accountants. By using Pennylane, rather than doing manual and repetitive tasks, they can spend more time advising and guiding their clients.
About us
Pennylane is one of the fastest growing Fintechs in France (and soon to be in Europe!)
In 2 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 €84 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 250 happy Pennylaners : we’re now recognized as one of the greatest places to work in France (but also remotely), with a 5/5 rating on Glassdoor and an e-NPS of 94.🌍 Build an international environment with more than 26 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 outstanding ratings
WHY this position is of utmost importance to reach our mission
While some companies count on marketing and sales to gain market share, we are a product-led company and we are investing primarily on building an innovative and scalable platform. Tech teams have a crucial role to play to achieve this goal.
HOW you will contribute to the company as a Software Engineer
As a software engineer, would will be part of a 110+ people Tech organisation. Each engineer is part of a squad focussing on a part of the product, reporting to a team lead or an engineering manager.Each squad is made with all the skills needed to build features end to end in autonomy, you will be working daily with a product manager, a designer and software engineers.You will take part of the discovery phase of the projects with the product manager and designer to define the feature to build; then you will participate with other engineers to design the software architecture, build it, test it and release it to production.The squad is also working on supporting customers using the features built by monitoring and fixing issues in production.
WHAT you can expect from your life at Pennylane
Within one month :
- You will learn everything about our company, our teams, and our vision during the first onboarding week.- You will follow a tech onboarding training to get familiar with the application, the accounting concepts, the code stack (we use React, Typescript, ES6, Jest, AWS) and the CI/CD.- You are integrated in your squad and explained your squad scope, roles and responsibilities.- You will have a “tech buddy”, basically a more senior software engineer, helping you on a daily basis with all the technical details you need to know as of software engineer.- You will start working on what we call “good first issues” to get familiar with the dev environment, the code structure, the tools and the squad scopes.
Within 3-6 months :
- You will be comfortable within your squad perimeter, people and best practices.- You will have participated on building and shipping features to production.- Thanks to your unique personality you will start bring value and new ideas to the squad.
And beyond :
- The teams are growing fast, there are plenty of opportunity to grow and develop your skills as a software engineer.- You will be able to take ownership and gain responsibilities on some features or projects the squad is responsible for.- You will have the possibility to have impact at Pennylane scale by working on cross te
Then Pennylane might be the right place for you — and you, might be the perfect fit for this role 🙂
Our vision
We aim to become the most beloved financial Operating System of European SMEs.
We help business owners get rid of the time consuming hassle of handling accounting and finance, while giving them access to key information that they can use to make better decisions.
Meanwhile, we’re helping accountants. By using Pennylane, rather than doing manual and repetitive tasks, they can spend more time advising and guiding their clients.
About us
Pennylane is one of the fastest growing Fintechs in France (and soon to be in Europe!)
In 2 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 €84 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 250 happy Pennylaners : we’re now recognized as one of the greatest places to work in France (but also remotely), with a 5/5 rating on Glassdoor and an e-NPS of 94.🌍 Build an international environment with more than 26 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 outstanding ratings
WHY this position is of utmost importance to reach our mission
While some companies count on marketing and sales to gain market share, we are a product-led company and we are investing primarily on building an innovative and scalable platform. Tech teams have a crucial role to play to achieve this goal.
HOW you will contribute to the company as a Software Engineer
As a software engineer, would will be part of a 110+ people Tech organisation. Each engineer is part of a squad focussing on a part of the product, reporting to a team lead or an engineering manager.Each squad is made with all the skills needed to build features end to end in autonomy, you will be working daily with a product manager, a designer and software engineers.You will take part of the discovery phase of the projects with the product manager and designer to define the feature to build; then you will participate with other engineers to design the software architecture, build it, test it and release it to production.The squad is also working on supporting customers using the features built by monitoring and fixing issues in production.
WHAT you can expect from your life at Pennylane
Within one month :
- You will learn everything about our company, our teams, and our vision during the first onboarding week.- You will follow a tech onboarding training to get familiar with the application, the accounting concepts, the code stack (we use React, Typescript, ES6, Jest, AWS) and the CI/CD.- You are integrated in your squad and explained your squad scope, roles and responsibilities.- You will have a “tech buddy”, basically a more senior software engineer, helping you on a daily basis with all the technical details you need to know as of software engineer.- You will start working on what we call “good first issues” to get familiar with the dev environment, the code structure, the tools and the squad scopes.
Within 3-6 months :
- You will be comfortable within your squad perimeter, people and best practices.- You will have participated on building and shipping features to production.- Thanks to your unique personality you will start bring value and new ideas to the squad.
And beyond :
- The teams are growing fast, there are plenty of opportunity to grow and develop your skills as a software engineer.- You will be able to take ownership and gain responsibilities on some features or projects the squad is responsible for.- You will have the possibility to have impact at Pennylane scale by working on cross te
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