Principal Fullstack Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Principal Fullstack Engineer (Fintech): Building and scaling a financial platform for international payments in emerging markets with an accent on UI, backend logic, and technical architecture. Focus on implementing IT security, data protection, and driving architectural decisions for scalability and observability.

Location: Hybrid in Paris or London, 3 days per week in the office.

Company

hirify.global helps businesses in emerging markets pay their international suppliers simply, quickly, and fairly, backed by over $18M from top-tier investors.

What you will do

• Contribute to the product process from end-to-end, from ideation to UI, backend logic, deployment, feedback, and measurement.
• Build intuitive and performant web interfaces for business owners in Africa.
• Implement IT security and data protection best practices in a regulated environment.
• Proactively drive architectural decisions to improve scalability, observability, and modularity of the codebase.
• Champion code quality through robust testing, documentation, and reviews.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to their professional growth through pairing, reviews, and feedback.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of web development, frontend and backend best practices, working mainly with JavaScript technologies (Typescript, React, NextJS, NodeJS, Express, PostgreSQL).
• Experience in a VC-backed or high-growth engineering team and building products used by customers.
• Comfortable working in an early-stage startup environment with a high pace, rapid growth, and a high degree of ambiguity.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for expressing ideas, designs, and potential solutions.
• Care about the mission and solving the problems faced by African businesses.
• Must be based in London or Paris.

Nice to have

• Speak and write in French.
• Experience in Fintech, payments, wallets, or building ledgers.
• Expertise in security and data protection best practices needed in an FCA regulated business.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to work closely with the founding team to shape product vision and technical architecture.
• Competitive salary, share options, and benefits package.
• Hybrid work model requiring 3 days per week in the office.
• Join a highly ambitious, diverse, and inclusive team of approximately 80 people across 10 countries.
• Work on impactful projects like automated payouts, AI invoice approval, and self-serve onboarding flows.

Hiring process

• Screen interview with Tech Recruiter (30 mins).
• Technical challenge with a Principal Engineer (1 hr).
• Deep dive with the hiring manager (1 hr).
• Founder chat (30 mins).