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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 cloud-based payroll and employee management 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 15,000 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 :
The position is based in Spain or France.

Position Overview :

PayFit is seeking an experienced engineer to join the Company Lifecycle team, a key squad within the Company & Employee Experience tribe. Our mission is to help admins manage their company’s full lifecycle, from setup to activation and churn, through simple, inclusive experiences that save time and support growth.

You will work on:

• Core features like company setup/self-onboarding, compliance checks, fraud management.

• Managing multi-establishment structures, enabling oversight of multiple related companies.

• Handling essential HRIS data and company lifecycle, exposing APIs and domain events used across PayFit.

The domain spans three countries and offers strategic challenges around architecture and scalability.

Your mission will be to design and deliver high-quality, maintainable, and scalable software while driving technical excellence and collaboration across teams.

You will:

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of robust, production-ready systems with performance and scalability in mind.

• Collaborate with Product Managers and Designers to shape impactful features and align on product and technical priorities.

• Drive architectural decisions and contribute to the evolution of PayFit’s engineering practices through documentation, pairing, and mentorship.

• Raise the bar on code quality, testing, observability, and developer experience across squads.

• Foster a culture of learning, care, and continuous improvement within your team and beyond.

This role is for you if:

• You have 5+ years of engineering experience, strong skills in TypeScript/Node.js (or similar), and a solid understanding of system design for scalable, reliable, and maintainable production systems.

• You are experienced with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, or Domain-Driven Design, and write clean, well-tested, production-ready code.

• You promote high standards in testing, monitoring, and observability to ensure system reliability and performance.

• You lead technical projects across squads, coordinate stakeholders, and effectively communicate through RFCs, ADRs, and architecture diagrams.

• You use data-driven insights to make decisions, continuously improve outcomes, and align your work with business priorities by focusing on impactful efforts.

It would be great if you also:

• You have led or contributed to technical migrations and platform evolutions across teams, while actively mentoring peers and raising the team’s technical standards.

• You contribute to engineering culture by organizing talks, mentoring, and writing about best practices, while effectively communicating complex technical concepts to non-engineers.

• Are comfortable collaborating with infra/platform teams, and have experience improving developer experience and CI/CD pipelines.

• Have experimented with GenAI or emerging technologies and can share how they might shape developer workflows.

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:

You will join a collaborative squad of 3 Software Engineers, collaborating daily with an Engineering Manager, a Product Manager, and a Designer.

Your future manager, Badr, brings extensive experience in leading complex technical projects and is committed to supporting your growth and development in this role.



Hiring process:

1) A first call with our Talent Acquisition Specialist to explain you better the role and see your general fit to it. (30-45 mins)

2) A meeting with the Engineering Manager Badr to discuss your technical background. (45 mins)

3) A system design interview, focusing on distributed systems and web architecture + live technical challenge. (60-90 mins)

4) Meet a PM and a Designer : You will meet with members of the team to get to know them and further assess your fit within the organization. (30 min)

5) Final meeting with the Tribe Engineering Director. (30 mins)

👉 Background Check (ISO27001 certification): identity, diploma, and past professional experiences will be checked after the offer.

What we offer

Flexibility: We believe it is key to produce your best work and to be fulfilled. We therefore offer the possibility to work away from our main offices, within France/UK/Spain; as well as abroad for a defined period. Further requirements may apply depending on the role and your overall experience.
Learning & Development: In PayFit we have a great learning platform where you can learn new skills every day with the support of our company. We also have English language courses to improve your business communication vocabulary and get to the next level.
Career Development: We want you to progress and be free to choose which direction you want to grow. There are also opportunities for internal moves.
Health promotion: A Gym at our Paris office and a GymLib subscription with preferential rates. 4 paid sessions with a mental health practitioner and online support with Moka.Care.
Health insurance: Mutuelle Henner (60% covered by PayFit).
Transportation: 50% covered for your public transportation card for those living within Ile de France. A budget to travel to the office for those who live outside of it.
Meals: A restaurant card with our partner Swile ( 9€ per workday).
Home office budget: 150€ per year to help you get set up in the best conditions. A MacBook is our standard working tool.
Parental support: 20 weeks maternity leave covered by PayFit and 4 weeks leave for the second parent.
Time off: 25 days of holidays + RTT days (depending on the contract).

Disability Inclusion: All of our positions are open to any person living with a disability. To guarantee equal treatment and opportunities, we will take, based on individual needs, appropriate measures to adapt the work conditions of PayFiters with disabilities, and if needed also during the recruitment process. Please let us know what you need and we will do our best to accommodate!