# Pennylane — вакансия Backend Engineer (Ruby on Rails) 🇪🇺 (полный текст)

## Метаданные

- **Компания:** Pennylane (французский финтех; «финансовая ОС» для МСБ и бухгалтерских фирм)
- **Вакансия:** Backend Engineer — Ruby on Rails (заголовок в объявлении: `Backend Engineer - Ruby on Rails 🇪🇺`)
- **Стек:** Ruby 3, Ruby on Rails 7, AWS, React, TypeScript
- **Формат:** remote из любой точки Европы («as long as your contract allows you to»); Париж — офис/коворкинг; 30% сотрудников уже работают удалённо по всей Европе
- **Дата получения описания:** 15.09.2026
- **Скрининг (30 мин, TA Manager):** назначен на 15.09.2026

## О вакансии (verbatim)

Are you looking to have an impact on the daily life of millions of entrepreneurs in France (and tomorrow in Europe)?
Are you looking for a work environment that values trust, proactivity, and autonomy?
Are our Engineering principles aligned with your vision?
Then Pennylane is the right place for you !

### Our vision

We aim to become the most beloved financial Operating System of French SMEs (and soon, European ones).
We help entrepreneurs rid themselves of time-consuming tasks related to accounting and finance while providing them with access to key financial information to assist in making the best decisions for their business.

### About us

Pennylane is one of the fastest growing Fintechs in France (and soon to be in Europe!)
In 6 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 €400 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 1100+ happy Pennylaners : we're now recognized as one of the greatest places to work in France (and also remotely), with a 4.6/5 rating on Glassdoor.
- 🌍 Build an international environment with more than 25 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
- 🚀 Already more than 1 300,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and over 6,500 accounting firms use Pennylane in France!

### 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, you would will be part of a 400+ 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.

As a Software Engineer 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 Ruby 3, Ruby on Rails 7, AWS, React, TypeScript) and the CI/CD and have full autonomy with it.
- You are integrated in your squad and explained your squad scope, roles and responsibilities.
- You will have a "tech buddy", another engineer, helping you on a daily basis with all the technical details you need to know at Pennylane.
- 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'll contribute to meaningful new features or improvements in your team's scope
- You'll have the opportunity to improve on our tools and processes to help us achieve better quality and/or velocity
- You'll be included in at least once code review specialist group to decide and improve the adoption of our best practices on one topic (e.g. testing, code architecture, database migrations, etc)
- You'll start looking into quantitative and qualitative product feedback to sharpen the team's roadmap

**And beyond:**

- The teams are growing, 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 teams or transversal initiatives.
- You will participate in scaling the Pennylane application from 30k+ customers to millions customers.

### What do we do to make your work life easier

- 🏢 You'll be able to work remotely from anywhere in Europe, as long as your contract allows you to
- 💵 You'll have a compensation package
- 📈 You'll get company shares to enjoy a piece of the success story you're building with us
- 🏡 You'll have a budget to turn your home into a more comfortable workspace, as well as a monthly allowance to work from a coworking space whenever you feel like it
- ⛹️ Through our partner Gymlib, you'll have access to 8000 fitness spaces in Europe and more than 300 activities related to wellness
- 🇬🇧 You'll have access to Busuu to perfect your english or french
- 💻 You'll get the latest Apple equipment
- 🎉 You'll be part of a vibrant social community : we do lots of sports together (Foot, running, climbing...), we love to hang out and have a drink together (thursday afterwork drinks on our rooftop is a usual thing. Twice-a-year we do company seminars, last time we went on a trip to the French Alps and it was fabulous !)

**And.. If you're based in France:**

- 🏢 You'll be able to work fully from your home or any co-working space in France, or from our wonderful office in the center of Paris
- 🏝 You'll get between 6 to 13 additional days off (to the 25 standard ones) to rest and do what you love each year
- 🍜 You'll have lunch credits (Swile card) to buy your favorite food every day
- 🏥 You'll have a great healthcare cover (Alan Blue) to take care of yourself and your family

We're working on providing those last advantages to our people based outside of France as well, but it can be quite more complex depending on different countries.

### What does the recruitment process look like ?

- You will first have a general chat with a Talent Acquisition Manager — 30 min
- You'll then have a test-home assignment + a debriefing session with two of our engineers — 1 h
- You'll have a last discussion with two people from our tech leadership team — 1 h

We make sure we move fast ; you can expect the recruitment process with us to last between 15 and 25 days in total.

### 🥇 You're the right candidate if you:

- Have at least 4 years of experience with Ruby on Rails
- Have a balanced blend of technical, business, and product skills.
- Show empathy for your users and want to solve real issues for them
- Have strong communication skills and are capable of articulating your ideas clearly
- Are Fluent in English (French is not mandatory)
- Are a team player and have experience working in an agile environment.

> Мультиязычный блок про персональные данные (FR/EN/DE/ES: обработка данных кандидата, хранение 2 года, контакт dpo@pennylane.com) опущен — к отклику отношения не имеет. Инклюзивность: подписано Pacte Parité, равные возможности независимо от пола/ориентации/происхождения/инвалидности.

## Наш профиль и гэпы

**Совпадает (сильно):**
- **Ruby on Rails 15+ лет** против требования «at least 4 years» — перевыполнено с большим запасом; это редкая вакансия, где наш основной стек = основной стек компании.
- **Финтех-домен с деньгами:** Raiffeisen Bank (банковская инфраструктура, ~50 сервисов), Balance Platform (Lending-as-a-Service, кредитная автоматизация) — ближайший аналог учётного/ledger-домена.
- **High-load и масштаб:** Dixy (~1 000 RPS, 2 000 магазинов, 800 GB+), Samokat (3 продукта 0→production, 800K+ пользователей), PostgreSQL/Kafka/ClickHouse, monolith→microservices.
- **Product mindset и end-to-end ownership:** опыт discovery + delivery полного цикла (Dixy), запуск продуктов с нуля (Samokat), DDD как архитектурный стандарт.
- **Инженерная производительность/CI-CD:** параллелизация GitLab CI (30 мин → 5 мин) — прямой аналог их «improve our tools and processes for better quality and/or velocity».
- **Обучаемость на домен:** у них tech onboarding включает бухгалтерские понятия — наш трек «язык-независим + быстро вхожу в незнакомый домен» (Go, Kotlin, PHP после Ruby) ложится идеально.

**Гэпы / риски:**
1. **Локация и контракт (главный риск).** «Remote from anywhere in Europe, as long as your contract allows you to» — формулировка про contract/EOR, а не про «мы нанимаем где угодно». Наш кейс — РФ, вне ЕС. Нужно на скрининге выяснить: через какую EOR-платформу оформляют (Deel/Remote), какие страны поддерживают, возможен ли B2B/contractor.
2. **Rails 7 / Ruby 3.** У нас Rails-опыт большой, но версии в резюме не заявлены. Если спросят про конкретные версии/апгрейды — говорить честно: работал с разными версиями, апгрейды делал; назвать то, что помним точно.
3. **Бухгалтерский домен (double-entry, план счетов, НДС/французское законодательство).** Опыта нет — компенсируем финансовым доменом (кредитная автоматизация, банк) и открытостью к обучению.
4. **Французский.** Не требуется («French is not mandatory») — но весь продукт и большая часть компании французские; уточнить, как это влияет на коммуникацию в сквадах.
5. **AI/LLM в вакансии не упоминается вообще.** Позиционируемся чистым senior Ruby-инженером; AI — коротко, как направление развития, без перекоса.

## Открытые вопросы (нужно закрыть на скрининге)

- Как оформляют людей вне ЕС: EOR, B2B-контракт или только страны ЕС? Есть ли уже сотрудники не из ЕС?
- Часовой пояс и синхронность: сколько созвонов, есть ли core hours по CET?
- Диапазон компенсации для этой роли; как устроены shares (BSPCE?) для нерезидентов ЕС.
- Что из себя представляет take-home (объём, ожидаемое время) и на каком языке интервью/созвоны.
- Ожидания по срокам: 15–25 дней на весь процесс.

## Связанные файлы

- Подготовка к скринингу: [`screening-prep.md`](screening-prep.md)