Confirmed Backend Engineer - Payment Squad (Java)

Location: Paris, France. The role is listed as on-site, while the benefits section describes it as hybrid.

Company

A community-based travel app enabling carpooling and bus travel across 21 countries.

What you will do

• Contribute to a reliable and scalable platform supporting the full payment lifecycle.
• Integrate new payment methods and interact with payment service providers.
• Address fraud prevention and compliance requirements.
• Own the payment experience end to end in collaboration with frontend engineers.
• Participate in design, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, alerting, and production support.
• Define features with product and design teams and share technical expertise with technical, product, and business stakeholders.

Requirements

• 3+ years of backend engineering experience in companies with a strong engineering culture and growth context.
• Fluent Java skills with experience in Spring, Spring Boot, JUnit, and Mockito.
• Hands-on experience with Git, Docker, Kubernetes, and Datadog monitoring.
• Understanding of service-oriented architecture and architectural pattern selection.
• Strong communication skills, humility, and a collaborative mindset.
• Full working proficiency in English.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work option.
• Minimum 25 days of holiday per year and additional parental leave.
• 50% healthcare coverage and financial support for home office equipment.
• Meal plan, 50% transportation reimbursement, and free unlimited carpooling and bus rides.
• Training, mentorship, internal mobility programs, and an employee stock ownership plan.
• Regular team-building events and one paid day per year to test the product.

Hiring process

• 90-minute live coding session with software engineers.
• 60-minute design interview with software engineers.
• 60-minute video call with the Engineering Manager of the payment team.
• The process typically lasts 25–30 days, with offers usually made within 48 hours after the final stage.