Fullstack Software Engineer - Banking Experience

Shine exists to help freelancers and small business owners reclaim the joy of working for themselves.

Running a business shouldn't mean drowning in financial admin - it should be inspiring and rewarding. Our app brings banking, invoicing, accounting and admin together in one place, so entrepreneurs can focus on what matters most: growing their business and enjoying the freedom of working for themselves.

We're a multicultural team of over 400 people across France, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands. By bringing together leading European fintechs like Shine, Kontist and Tellow, we've built a single, intuitive platform designed for simplicity, speed and accuracy - backed by local, award-winning support.

Your hiring experience matters

Just as we respect our customers' time, we respect yours. Your experience with Shine should feel simple, transparent and genuinely supportive.

If this sounds like somewhere you want to grow, we'd love to hear from you.

The Banking Experience team at Shine

The Banking Experience team is dedicated to building Europe’s most reliable and beloved business banking application. We focus on delivering a robust, multinational application that solves customer needs through a delightful, user-centered interface. Our environment is truly collaborative, bringing product managers, designers, and engineers together to work hand in hand.

Your role as a Fullstack Software Engineer - Banking Experience

By joining the Banking Experience team, you will contribute to shaping the foundation of Shine’s banking services. Your mission: help design, build, and continuously innovate our banking applications while ensuring the resilience and reliability of our systems.

Everything we build is rooted in a deeply user-centric approach. At Shine, technical excellence goes hand-in-hand with empathy; you won't just be moving bits, you'll be solving real-world financial headaches for the people who power the economy. Your work will have a tangible impact on the daily lives of thousands of freelancers and entrepreneurs, providing them with the seamless, reliable banking experience they need to grow their businesses with peace of mind. Our passion is to develop intuitive products that our users enjoy using.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Building distributed, event-driven systems on top of providers, in order to power our accounts and payment flows features for both our web application and mobile application.

• Drive the product forward by building new features and implementing impactful improvements.

• We tackle maintenance, bug fixes, and technical debt during dedicated workshops. This allows us to keep the system clean without distracting from your deep-work project phases.

• Take turns acting as the Lead Engineer for key initiatives adapted to your level of experience, where you’ll coordinate cross-functional efforts and sharpen your project management skills in a supportive, high-trust environment.

• Partner with Product teams to discuss technical feasibility and influence the future of our tools.

• Lead the creation of Technical Design Documents and provide regular project updates to keep stakeholders aligned.

📍 Paris - hybrid (3 days/week in office)
Not within commuting distance of Paris?
Apply anyway for some Product & Tech roles, a remote setup may be considered in Berlin, Amsterdam, or Copenhagen, depending on profile and team needs.

About you

• 4+ years of fullstack experience in TypeScript/Node.js/React environments.

• Solid understanding of distributed and event-driven systems.

• Strong focus on clean code, testing, and maintainability.

• Experience with microservices and cloud environments (GCP or AWS). Bonus: experience with Domain-Driven Design is appreciated

• Product-minded approach with a focus on user interaction and the end-to-end customer experience.

• Comfortable working in cross-functional squads with engineers, product managers, and designers.

• Bonus: experience in banking, payments, or regulated environments is appreciated

• Fluent in English; French/German is a plus

Equal Opportunity Employer

We follow the principle of equal treatment to consider all job applicants and do not discriminate based on their gender, sexual orientation, color, racial or ethnic origin, religion, disability, etc. as per applicable law.

Our recruitment process

1️⃣ Initial conversation with a Talent Acquisition Partner, to understand your background, motivation and expectations

2️⃣ Meet your potential Engineering Manager in the second stage to get more insights to the daily doing and diving deeper into the technical environment

3️⃣ Coding Challenge: We’ll look at how you tackle real-world logic and your comfort level with the stack

4️⃣ System design: Pick your specialty (FE or BE). We’ll explore system trade-offs together and then jump into a code mockup to test the implementation.

5️⃣ A team introduction, followed by a soft skills interview based on personality assessments to see how we can best support your growth at Shine