Skaleet is a dynamic and fastgrowing tech company specializing in Core Banking Solutions. We help financial institutions in 15 countries to innovate, scale, and deliver superior banking experiences to millions of end-customers.
At Skaleet, we thrive on collaboration, creativity, and a shared passion for redefining the future of banking.
Join us in our journey to transform the financial industry !
We are constantly looking for talented individuals to help us continue developing our solution and achieve our goals : free European banks and fintechs from legacy core banking systems, so they can finally deliver modern, modular, real-time banking experiences, without compromising on compliance or robustness.
Our ambition is to build the pan-European leader in modern Core Banking.
Over the next five years, our ambition is to become the platform of choice for European financial institutions to:
Context
As we continue to scale and support increasingly demanding Tier-1 financial institutions, we are strengthening our Software Factory to drive the evolution of our core banking platform.
As a Software Engineer, you will directly contribute to the development and resilience of a modular banking platform running in production within mission-critical environments.
Your role will go beyond feature implementation: you will actively participate in building a reliable, scalable, and sustainable technological foundation supporting real financial flows with high business impact.
You will operate in an environment where code quality, performance, and system stability are not optional — they are fundamental requirements.
Your future missions
You will play a key role in ensuring the quality, reliability, and long-term evolution of our platform, contributing to developments with strong business impact.
1. Contribute to a robust and scalable technology foundation
Develop and deliver critical features while adhering to high standards of quality, maintainability, and performance.
Work primarily on backend development ( 80%), while also contributing to frontend evolutions ( 20%), maintaining an end-to-end understanding of product behavior.
Ensure clarity, testability, and long-term sustainability of the codebase, helping control technical debt and support continuous platform evolution.
Actively contribute to technical discussions and propose architectural or design improvements when relevant.
2. Elevate engineering excellence (Software Craftsmanship)
Apply and promote best development practices: clean code, rigorous code reviews, meaningful documentation, and automated testing.
Contribute to strengthening our testing pyramid (unit, integration, end-to-end) to improve release reliability and reduce production risk.
Actively participate in continuous improvement initiatives, reinforcing a culture of technical excellence within the team.
Operate in an Agile framework with strong attention to specification quality and deep understanding of business constraints.
3. Operate in mission-critical and high-impact environments
Build and maintain features used in production by financial institutions, where performance, resilience, and availability are essential.
Collaborate closely with Product, QA, and Delivery teams to translate complex functional requirements into robust technical solutions.
Participate in incident analysis, root cause investigations, and resilience improvement initiatives to continuously strengthen platform reliability.
Take part in on-call rotations, contributing to service continuity and operational excellence.
4. Contribute to team dynamics and engineering maturity
Share knowledge and continuously learn from peers in a culture of collective progression.
Actively engage in technical discussions and contribute to strategic engineering decisions.
Support the ongoing maturation of our Software Factory by bringing structure, rigor, and pragmatic engineering thinking to complex challenges.
Technical environment
You will primarily work with:
Core backend: PHP 8.2 / MariaDB
Nice to have: DevOps & infrastructure tools > Docker / Elastic Stack / RabbitMQ / OpenShift
You are a great match if :
Education: Master’s degree from a top-tier engineering school.
Experience: minimum of 3 years experience as a Software Engineer.
Languages: Fluency in French and English, both written and spoken.
Interpersonal skills: Strong ability to collaborate with diverse teams, an excellent team player.
You thrive on challenges, have an entrepreneurial mindset, and enjoy the energy of scale-ups.
Bonus Points: Previous experience in an international or European setting is a plus.
What this role offers
The opportunity to work on real-world banking systems running in production
Direct impact on a platform used by major financial institutions
An environment where engineering quality and ownership are valued
The chance to help build a long-term, scalable technological foundation
The benefits of joining Skaleet
25 days of paid vacation and 12 additional days off (RTT) per year.
The perfect health insurance : Alan Blue
Lunch Matters: We provide a Swile card to cover your meals on workdays
An entrepreneurial mindset and strong team spirit
Beautiful brand-new offices located in Boulogne-Billancourt, right next to Metro Line 10.
Recruitment process
A first video call with the HR team to get to know each other and tell you more about Skaleet, our company culture & values (30’).
A technical interview with Jean-Baptiste, Staff Engineer to dive deeper into the specifics of the role (60’).
A peer-programming exercise to test your knowledge (90’).
A final meeting at our offices in Boulogne with Martin, our CEO and Victor, our Chief of Staff (60’).
We look forward to discovering your profile !
