Software Engineer - Frontend Focus Full-Stack H/F

We're looking for a frontend-first full-stack engineer to build and evolve the employee experience across our platform. The Employee Management team owns the key journeys where users create, manage, and update employee data throughout the employee lifecycle.

This is a full-stack role aligned with team priorities: you'll contribute wherever the work is, across frontend and backend. At the same time, you bring a strong frontend background and will help the team level up on UI quality, frontend architecture, and product experience standards.

What you will do

• Deliver product work end-to-end: discovery, technical design, implementation, rollout, iteration.
• Build high-quality, user-centric interfaces: accessible, performant, consistent.
• Take ownership of frontend architecture and patterns (state management, data fetching, routing, error handling, forms) to improve quality and speed sustainably.
• Collaborate on backend implementation when needed (services, endpoints, integrations) to ship team priorities.
• Improve our design system usage and help scale UI consistency across flows.
• Raise the bar on engineering quality through reviews, pairing, and pragmatic technical leadership.

Backend collaboration & API design

A key part of the role is ensuring the end-to-end experience is high quality. You'll work with the team to design and evolve APIs that are:

• predictable and consistent,
• optimized for product usage (latency, pagination, partial updates),
• resilient (validation, error semantics, backwards compatibility),
• and easy to consume from the frontend.

You won't be the backend owner, but you will be expected to contribute when needed and help drive API choices that directly impact user experience., Employee Management sits at the heart of the platform. The quality of these journeys impacts daily workflows for customers and sets the bar for the rest of the product. This role combines strong ownership of team delivery with a clear mandate to elevate frontend quality and user experience.

Interview process :

1. Interview with a recruiter - 45min

2. Interview with Pierre (Tribe's Engineering Director)- 45min

3. Livefrontend technical challenge case with 2 membersof the team - 60min

4. Final System DesignInterview with 2 members of the team- 60min

Background Check (ISO27001 certification): identity, diploma, and past professional experiences will be checked after the offer.

What we offer

Flexibility: We believe it is key to produce your best work and to be fulfilled. We therefore offer the possibility to work away from our main offices, within France/UK/Spain; as well as abroad for a defined period. Further requirements may apply depending on the role and your overall experience.

Learning & Development: In PayFit we have a great learning platform where you can learn new skills every day with the support of our company. We also have English language courses to improve your business communication vocabulary and get to the next level.

Career Development: We want you to progress and be free to choose which direction you want to grow. There are also opportunities for internal moves.

Health promotion: Egym Wellpass subscription with preferential rates.

Health insurance: Mutuelle Henner (60% covered by PayFit).

Transportation: 50% covered for your public transportation card for those living within Ile de France. A budget to travel to the office for those who live outside of it.

Meals: A restaurant card with our partner Swile (9€ per workday).

Home office budget: 150€ per year to help you get set up in the best conditions. A MacBook is our standard working tool.

Parental support: 20 weeks of maternity leave covered by PayFit and 4 weeks leave for the second parent.

Time off: 25 days of holidays + RTT days (depending on the contract).

Disability Inclusion: All of our positions are open to any person living with a disability. To guarantee equal treatment and opportunities, we will take, based on individual needs, appropriate measures to adapt the work conditions of PayFiters with disabilities, and if needed also during the recruitment process. Please let us know what you need and we will do our best to accommodate!

Strong experience building modern web apps with React (or similar) and TypeScript.

• Proven ability to deliver full-stack work, prioritizing the most valuable outcomes for the team.
• Strong product sense and attention to UX details (edge cases, empty states, error states, loading states).
• Ability to influence frontend quality and help others level up (patterns, reviews, examples, shared components).
• Comfortable collaborating with PM/Design and across engineering.

Nice to have

• Experience with design systems/component libraries at scale.
• Frontend observability experience (error tracking, monitoring, performance metrics, web vitals).
• Experience in complex B2B workflows (permissions, audits, multi-step flows).
• Experience in improving the reliability and maintainability of a mature codebase, postgraduate degree EducationalOccupationalCredential bachelor degree EducationalOccupationalCredential associate degree

Do you want to help us shape what the future of work will look like and how it will best embrace our life's aspirations? If this sounds like a journey you want to embark on, we may have the right role for you! PayFit is an intuitive software as a service payroll and HRIS solution designed specifically for SMBs.Since 2015, we have set ourselves a mission to simplify payroll for SMBs and enable employers and employees to grow together. We are a European company operating from 3 main countries (France, Spain, and the UK) where we are supporting over 20,000 clients. Creating a fulfilling work environment and culture is also a core mission at PayFit, and our day-to-day work philosophy is reflected in our four values: Care:We genuinely care for others whoever they are, whatever they think. Excellence:We aim to improve and achieve better results every day. Humility:Staying humble and exchanging transparent feedback helps us to grow and improve. Passion:We are the architects of PayFit's success. A key part of our culture, and essential for our success, is also improving the diversity of our teams and building an inclusive culture where you can be yourself at work. This is why our recruitment focuses on the skills you demonstrate, and not only on your academic background or previous professional experiences. At PayFit we understand that you can gain applicable skills through a variety of life experiences and we are interested in knowing them, too.