Senior React Native Engineer - Fintech Scaleup Next40 in Columbus

About Alma

At Alma, we believe sustainable commerce depends on fair, well-balanced trade. Because finance plays a pivotal role in business, our mission is to put it back in its rightful place — serving merchants and consumers. Our installment and deferred payment solutions help merchants boost sales by 20% or more, increase customer loyalty, and deliver a seamless shopping experience — without encouraging bad debt.

As the buy now pay later leader in France and active in 10 European countries, we've empowered over 25,000+ merchants and 10 million consumers. With 400+ Almakers and €100M+ ARR, Alma is scaling rapidly across Europe as a member of the Next40, and we're just getting started!

About the Team

The Consumer Tribe builds the Alma app for consumers. To tackle more topics and accelerate the development of the consumer experience, the current Consumer squad is splitting into two dedicated squads: Alma Wallet and Consumer Engagement.

Alma Wallet builds the payment experience of the app. With the Alma card, consumers can pay with Alma anywhere, not only at our partner merchants. In the app, they can manage their payments using Apple Pay, Google Pay or local payment methods. By taking Alma beyond our merchant network, the Alma card is one of the company's key strategic bets.

Consumer Engagement drives consumer activation, engagement and long-term retention by helping people get more value from Alma. The team builds experiences that make it easier for consumers to discover partner merchants, benefit from loyalty and cashback rewards, and manage their account independently.

In 2027, the focus is on turning Alma into a more engaging, everyday consumer experience by strengthening loyalty, increasing repeat usage and making Consumer Engagement a key driver of Alma's long-term growth.

This is a new position created as the consumer app organization splits into two squads. You will join one of these squads and work closely with its Engineering Manager, Product Manager, Designer and back-end engineers. You will report to Gautier Labarre, Engineering Manager.

This position is a permanent contract (CDI), open to full remote from Metropolitan France.

About the Job

• Build and ship meaningful consumer experiences: Develop and release new features in the Alma app from design to production, working closely with Product, Design and back-end engineers.
• Make payments simple and secure: Integrate payment SDKs and native mobile capabilities such as Apple Pay, Google Pay, card management, biometrics and secure storage.
• Raise the quality bar of the app: Keep the application fast, reliable and maintainable through automated testing, monitoring, code reviews and continuous performance improvements.
• Help the team learn and move forward: Contribute to technical decisions, challenge product and back-end implementation when needed, and improve the team's architecture, tooling and release processes.

You Will Work With

• Mobile: Expo / EAS, Expo Router, React Native, React 19, TypeScript, TanStack Query, Redux Toolkit, react-hook-form, Zod, Reanimated, Unistyles, MMKV, Nitro modules.
• Tests: Jest, Testing Library, Maestro.
• Payments: Adyen, Stripe, Checkout.com SDKs.
• Observability: Datadog, Sentry, OpenTelemetry, OpenFeature.
• Back-end: Python, FastAPI.
• Tools: GitHub, Linear, Notion, Figma, Crowdin, Claude.

About You

To succeed in this job:

• You have 3+ years of experience building mobile applications with React Native and TypeScript, with experience releasing apps on both the App Store and Google Play.
• You have a strong understanding of the React Native ecosystem, including Expo, navigation, state management and data fetching.
• You care deeply about software quality and have experience with testing, code reviews, monitoring and mobile performance.
• You are fluent in English and comfortable working in a cross-functional, international environment.

And it will be nice if you also:

• Have worked on payment products, fintech products or other security-sensitive applications.
• Have experience contributing to a consumer application used at scale.
• Are comfortable challenging product or back-end implementation when it does not provide the best user or technical outcome.
• Have experience with web development in addition to mobile development.

Don't meet every single requirement? At Alma, we believe great hires come from diverse paths. If this role excites you, we encourage you to apply. We value potential, curiosity and the ability to grow as much as experience.

What's in It for You

If you join, you will be able to grow and have impact on:

• Work on products at the heart of Alma's strategy, including the Alma card, new payment methods in the app and our loyalty programme.
• Solve real mobile fintech challenges involving payment SDKs, Apple Pay, Google Pay, biometrics and secure storage.
• Use a modern mobile stack based on Expo 57, React Native's New Architecture, React 19, TypeScript 7, Reanimated 4 and Nitro modules.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary based on 12 months
• Profit-sharing and employee savings plan
• Health insurance: 100% covered by Alma including family package
• Disability insurance: 100% covered by Alma
• Sport: partnerships with Gymlib and Classpass, or €30/month reimbursement for your sports activities
• Maternity/paternity leave: salary maintained at 100% during leave with no seniority requirement. Return to work at 4/5 schedule paid at 100% for 8 weeks.
• Sustainable Mobility Package (FMD): €544.80/year (excluding full-remote contracts)
• Meal vouchers: €10/day, 50% covered by Alma
• Mental health: free access to MindDay platform
• Paid time off: 25 days/year (+ additional paid leave granted for employees on executive contracts)
• Access to our Learning & Development Platform
• 2 weeks of full remote possible per year in summer

Interview Process

• Video call with a Talent Acquisition team member to understand your path, motivation and present you the role.
• Video call with your future manager to deep dive into the role, the team, your profile and answer all your questions.
• Live testing session with members of the Mobile Engineering team to assess your practical knowledge and approach to mobile development.
• Coffee Chat with members of the squad you would join, with the panel adapted to Alma Wallet or Consumer Engagement.

Diversity & Inclusion

At Alma, we believe that diversity fuels innovation and makes our community stronger. We are committed to building a workplace where every person feels seen, respected, and empowered to do their best work — whatever their gender, background, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion, disability or lived experience. As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applicants from all walks of life, and all employment decisions are made based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.