About us

Pennylane is one of the fastest growing Fintechs in France (and soon to be in Europe!)

In 5 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 1000 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 900,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and over 6000 accounting firms use Pennylane in France!

WHY this position is of utmost importance to reach our mission

At Pennylane, data drives decisions. This culture is embraced by the leadership team, and actively promoted everywhere. The role of the data team is to make this possible by treating data like a production asset, making it available company-wide, and using it proactively to empower smarter decisions for teams and users.

By joining us as a Data Engineer, you will have a pivotal role in large projects, bringing your data modelling and engineering expertise to help us meet our high delivery standards.

HOW you will contribute to the company

As a Data Engineer, you will join the Self Service Analytics team, which is part of our data engineering community (20+ people) within our dynamic Data department (50+ people).

You will collaborate with data analysts to translate complex business requirements into robust, scalable models and data services that support making data-driven decision across the company.

You will model data as a product and shape how it is structured in our data lake across our medallion architecture for all Pennylaners to consume.

You will build and maintain our data analytics platform, handling data ingestion, validation and establishing data as a core part of our production systems.

You will contribute to our data governance initiatives, helping to maintain our data catalogue and to uphold high standards of data quality and compliance.

You will help design and implement data solutions, including ETL pipelines, batch processing systems, and data warehousing.

You will work alongside other data engineering teams focused on streaming and infrastructure, sharing technical knowledge and best practices.

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 get familiar with our stack, and have delivered a few small projects which will give you a concrete taste of our tools & processes.

You will be given time to meet your future stakeholders, and gain a deep knowledge of our product and operations.

Within 3 months:

You will be fully in charge of items in our roadmap, defining and prioritising your tasks autonomously.

You will be comfortable with our data abstractions, core business logic and technical stack (ETL orchestration, data warehousing, event tracking, visualisation tools).

You will have a good understanding of the data in your dedicated scope.

You will contribute to larger cross-team projects.

Within 6 months:

You will proactively contribute to the team’s roadmap.

You will work with engineers and data practitioners on improving our stack, data platform and data modelling practices.

You will share your learnings and best practices within the team.

And beyond: the data team will continue growing with the company

Which means:

- Opportunities to recruit and mentor new team members,

- Increased accountability in project leadership,

- Responsibilities to design and implement new processes, tools and best practices to make sure that your team works even more efficiently.

What does the recruitment process look like?

- A first interview with our Talent Acquisition Manager

-A case study interview to discuss a topic closely related to one of our priorities (75 min)

-A past project interview to hear about your experience (60 min)

- An interview with our Tech & Product leaders to discuss our company culture (45 min)

What do we do to make your work life easier

🌴 Wherever you are based, you will get 25 vacations days paid by Pennylane

💵 You’ll have a competitive 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 your French

💻 You’ll get the latest Apple equipment

🏢 Depending on the teams and the requirements of the position - you'll be able to work remotely from your country of residence, as long as it is in Europe and within a maximum time difference of two hours from the CET time zone

🎉 We are committed to regularly coming together for company events such as Tech Days (which bring remote Pennylaners together every 3 months) or our annual company seminar, fostering significant moments of cohesion for everyone.

About us

Pennylane is one of the fastest growing Fintechs in France (and soon to be in Europe!)

In 5 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 1000 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 900,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and over 6000 accounting firms use Pennylane in France!

WHY this position is of utmost importance to reach our mission

At Pennylane, data drives decisions. This culture is embraced by the leadership team, and actively promoted everywhere. The role of the data team is to make this possible by treating data like a production asset, making it available company-wide, and using it proactively to empower smarter decisions for teams and users.

By joining us as a Data Engineer, you will have a pivotal role in large projects, bringing your data modelling and engineering expertise to help us meet our high delivery standards.

HOW you will contribute to the company

As a Data Engineer, you will join the Self Service Analytics team, which is part of our data engineering community (20+ people) within our dynamic Data department (50+ people).

You will collaborate with data analysts to translate complex business requirements into robust, scalable models and data services that support making data-driven decision across the company.

You will model data as a product and shape how it is structured in our data lake across our medallion architecture for all Pennylaners to consume.

You will build and maintain our data analytics platform, handling data ingestion, validation and establishing data as a core part of our production systems.

You will contribute to our data governance initiatives, helping to maintain our data catalogue and to uphold high standards of data quality and compliance.

You will help design and implement data solutions, including ETL pipelines, batch processing systems, and data warehousing.

You will work alongside other data engineering teams focused on streaming and infrastructure, sharing technical knowledge and best practices.

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 get familiar with our stack, and have delivered a few small projects which will give you a concrete taste of our tools & processes.

You will be given time to meet your future stakeholders, and gain a deep knowledge of our product and operations.

Within 3 months:

You will be fully in charge of items in our roadmap, defining and prioritising your tasks autonomously.

You will be comfortable with our data abstractions, core business logic and technical stack (ETL orchestration, data warehousing, event tracking, visualisation tools).

You will have a good understanding of the data in your dedicated scope.

You will contribute to larger cross-team projects.

Within 6 months:

You will proactively contribute to the team’s roadmap.

You will work with engineers and data practitioners on improving our stack, data platform and data modelling practices.

You will share your learnings and best practices within the team.

And beyond: the data team will continue growing with the company

Which means:

- Opportunities to recruit and mentor new team members,

- Increased accountability in project leadership,

- Responsibilities to design and implement new processes, tools and best practices to make sure that your team works even more efficiently.

What does the recruitment process look like?

- A first interview with our Talent Acquisition Manager

-A case study interview to discuss a topic closely related to one of our priorities (75 min)

-A past project interview to hear about your experience (60 min)

- An interview with our Tech & Product leaders to discuss our company culture (45 min)

What do we do to make your work life easier

🌴 Wherever you are based, you will get 25 vacations days paid by Pennylane

💵 You’ll have a competitive 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 your French

💻 You’ll get the latest Apple equipment

🏢 Depending on the teams and the requirements of the position - you'll be able to work remotely from your country of residence, as long as it is in Europe and within a maximum time difference of two hours from the CET time zone

🎉 We are committed to regularly coming together for company events such as Tech Days (which bring remote Pennylaners together every 3 months) or our annual company seminar, fostering significant moments of cohesion for everyone.