Software Engineer - Developer Experience (Apprenticeship -)

PayFit simplifies payroll management and HR processes for SMBs(e)PayFit is an automated SaaS solution to help business owners and HR professionals save time and money allowing them to refocus on what really matters: their employees(e)Since 2015, we have set ourselves a mission to support the digital transformation of HR management through our ever growing range of product features and services(e)We have a strong presence in France and have been quickly growing in Germany, Spain and in the UK(e)With 7,000 customers in 4 countries, we are one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in Europe.

Today, we are more than 900 employees at PayFit and we all share four core values:

• Care for each other

• Always stay humble

• Strive for excellence

• Live and work with passion

We are committed to a culture of inclusion and an environment that enables fulfillment in freedom & responsibility.

This is an Apprenticeship contract of 12 months, starting in Septembre 2022 or January 2023 !

The Engineering team counts more than 100 people in Europe and we are still growing(e)Divided into different tribes to better address our diverse technical and product challenges, all the teams need the best tools, processes, and best practices as well as a clear communication.

The Developer Experience team, is part of our Platform Tribe, and is here to improve the engineer's daily life.

As engineers they need to focus on core business, API developments, User Interfaces ; they don't want to wait too long their CI, they want to have the best infrastructure environments locally and for testing, they want to have a clear ownership and practices over all teams.

The DevExp team is managing different tools to help engineers stay in the Flow(e)We created a complete on-demand testing ecosystem with NodeJS and the GitOps pattern, we are working on the Stack used by developers to create new features and we deployed a Developer Portal based on backstage.io from Spotify(e)There are many projects we could work on in the future to always improve developers daily life.

Some of them are:

• Infrastructure as Code

• API Development for tooling

• Developer Portal improvements

• VSCode Extensions

• CLIs

• Documentations

• Develop, maintain and improve our internal tools (Stack, testing on-demand environments, CLI, framework and more).

• Understand the Engineering Team needs and challenges.

• Communicate through all the teams and evangelize best practices as well as help implement it.

• Think, design and implement technical solutions to improve the developer experience.

• Design and implement simple and efficient tools for our different teams with NodeJS or any other platform.

• Make the engineer's efficiency your first priority

• You want to learn, improve your technical skills and be part of a Platform team with a strong impact on the Engineering Department

• You want to expand your knowledge, be challenged every day working on unique projects.

• You want to work with a passionate team dedicated to PayFit engineers

• You have a good vision on both front-end and back-end challenges with JavaScript and TypeScript.

• You know that as engineer the focus on your code is what you're looking for

• You always try to improve your workflows with simple open-source or homemade tools

• You want to work on DevOps challenges (Kubernetes, Helm, CircleCI) as well as NodeJS API and CLIs

• You spread the words about inner-source and open-source practices across the organization

• You have strong knowledge and experience in JavaScript and TypeScript

• You are a real team player who want to build a big success story with us

• Your dynamism and motivation help you take strong decision in a fast paced environment

• You can speak both french and english or want to improve it

• You want to learn, improve and gain responsibility.

• Live coding with a Software Engineer from the team

• Interview meeting with Arthur, Engineering Manager

• Interview meeting with an Engineering Director

• An international and dynamic team with the opportunity to visit our different offices (Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, London)

• A Work From Anywhere policy to allow for flexibility! Depending on your contract, live and work permanently in one of our 4 countries of your choice or work abroad up to six months a year!

• 150 euros equipment budget to comfortably work from home

• A gym at our Paris office and a Gymlib membership with preferential rates

• Restaurant tickets card (Swile)

• 20 weeks of maternity leave supported by PayFit and 4 weeks of partner leave (Signed the Parental Act)

• Health insurance (supported to 60% by PayFit)

• One day per year dedicated to volunteer for an association

• A fulfilling and inclusive workplace, offering equal opportunities for any minority, disability, gender identity and sexual orientation(e)Don’t forget: everyone fits at PayFit!