About

Swan is the leading European fintech specialized in embedded banking. A laureate of the French government's selective year list of tech champions, "French Tech Next 120," we are quickly expanding across Europe.

Over 100 European companies have already seamlessly integrated banking services such as accounts, cards, and payments into their products through our Banking-as-a-Service platform. This approach, known as “embedded finance”, empowers businesses to elevate their offerings and create new revenue streams — often times tripling their revenue!

Our founders' vision from the beginning was Simplicity: that anyone with a fintech idea at 2 am can visit our website, start building, and buy themselves a coffee with a self-issued card the very next day. That vision has taken us far.

Following a 38M€ Series B round last September, we have been doubling our headcount and already have over 230 Swanees across offices in Paris, Bordeaux, Berlin, Barcelona, Amsterdam, and Milan! If you’re excited about joining a European fintech adventure, Swan is the way!

To learn more about us: About Swan ; Our story.

Job description

Swan is looking for a Software Engineer to join its tech team of 70+ people.

The Engineering team is by far the largest at Swan. This team includes Software developers, who build payments and end-customer applications, as well as Infrastructure, DevOps, QA, and Security.

Swan has a diverse team of engineers from all over the place. Co-building is at the heart of the way we work. We believe in challenging each other. We believe that the values of honesty and frankness while respecting others and showing empathy, are the best way to work together and get things done in a healthy environment.

✨ Your missions

• You will be technically responsible for one or more projects
• You will have the opportunity to solve problems in one of the most demanding IT domains with a reactive architecture
• You will design with the product team the bank by API
• You will improve the performance of a system with a rapidly growing load
• You will ensure the respect of the architecture rules and of the automated tests

✨ Our technical stack

• TypeScript & FPTS
• Scala & Kotlin
• PostgreSQL
• Kafka
• GraphQL
• Gitlab
• K8S
• AWS

✨ Methodology

At Swan, we build a product that is mainly designed to be consumed by other engineers. As such, we expect Engineers to take a real role in co-building the product we offer, proposing ideas, and challenging what’s doable.

To facilitate this, Engineers are split into independent squads of 4 to 8 engineers working alongside dedicated Product Managers. They build together the roadmap on a quarterly basis and are able to iterate on it in a cycle of 2 to 4 weeks.

Because the stability of our system is important, we expect engineers to come up with technical projects that help us scale and add them to the roadmap like we would any feature.

✨ Our product

Swan makes it extremely easy for anyone to embed banking features, whether they’re a dev or an entrepreneur (or both). It’s exciting to build a bank that can be integrated by anyone! We’d love for Swan to become the reflex for European engineers who want to build something with banking and payments.

The banking domain is a fascinating and challenging place to grow your skills. It’s state-of-the-art and covers everything you’ve learned at school: security, consistency, and scalability, but building a “bank” is a lot different from building another type of startup. In the banking sector, you can’t compromise on product quality and leave issues unresolved. That’s why Swan puts security and robustness first and foremost. Join Swan and you’ll be pushed to reach the highest standards of quality and precision.

Learn more about the Engineering team.

Preferred experience

✨ You’re a great match if:

• Experience: you have at least 4/5 years of experience as a Software Developer
• You have mastery of common back-end improvement topics (performance improvements, observability, database queries (SQL) and SQL optimizations)
• You have knowledge of TypeScript or a JVM language (Kotlin, Scala or Java) and Kafka is a plus
• Familiar with automated testing and continuous integration
• Experience in distributed systems or micro-service architecture
• You regularly follow technological improvements to keep abreast of the latest developments in your technological ecosystem (via newsletters, by attending conferences, or watching meetups, for example).
• Languages: You have a professional level of English. Swan is an international team, and you'll be working in English with other Swanees on a daily basis. Speaking French is a plus.
• Our ideal teammate: Sociable. Skilled. Empathetic. Frank. We love to challenge each other, and we leave our egos at the door 🙂

It’s okay if you don’t tick all the boxes — don’t let imposter syndrome prevent you from applying! 🙌 

Swan is committed to providing a caring work environment for all employees, regardless of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, or belief.

When it comes to recruitment, we’re interested in your work experience, skills, and overall personality. Because diversity makes the workplace stronger and is necessary for Swan’s success, we are intensifying efforts to incorporate concrete actions to help us improve in this area.

About Swan

✨ Perks of being a Swanee:

• Our hybrid remote policy offers the best of both worlds: a great office setting and the flexibility to work remotely with at least 3 days each month in our Parisian office.
• Relocation package available (If you want to settle in Paris)
• The best health insurance: Alan 🦭
• Swan encourages you to have fun staying fit, thanks to partnerships with Classpass & Gymlib.
• We respect your lunch break. Mid-day free-time is sacred and our French office even provides a Swile card to cover your meal on work days. 🥪
• Twice a year we go somewhere gorgeous (a chateau, a mountain) where we reconnect, deep-dive into big topics, and relax.
• This isn’t a perk, it should be the rule, but diversity and inclusion are important at Swan. We’re working hard to get better every day.

✨ Our values:

Swan’s core values guide our actions daily. Individually, they may seem obvious, but together, they form a unique culture.

Simplicity: Leonardo Da Vinci said: “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” If something's convoluted or confusing, we work extra hard to break it down. - Making complex things simple is what we do.

Long Term: We always play the long game, whether it's to support our partners in their growth journey, or make tangible commitments to climate action.

Excellence: We are a team of experts who consistently go all out to create pixel-perfect banking services and exceed our partners' expectations— whatever it takes.

Be Human: We believe in the power of kindness and the importance of acting with integrity. But embracing our humanity extends beyond interpersonal interactions, it means caring about greater issues that affect our planet.

You can find out more about our culture.

Recruitment process

• A 30-min video call with our Talent Acquisition Manager, to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions
• Technical test and Live coding interview with two Software Engineers
• Hiring manager interview with an Engineering Manager