Software Engineer (All Levels)

🇩🇪 Berlin

• 🇫🇷 Paris
• 🇩🇰 Copenhagen
• 🇵🇱 Gdansk
• 🇪🇸 Madrid
• 🇳🇱 Amsterdam Hybrid
  
  

About Shine

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 platform brings invoicing, accounting, payroll, business accounts, payments, tax, and reporting into one connected experience, so entrepreneurs can focus on what matters most: growing their business and enjoying the freedom they chose.

Part of something bigger

We're part of Cegid, a European leader in cloud software for finance and accounting. Together, we're building Europe's leading financial copilot for small businesses and their accountants.

Shine already supports more than 400,000 small businesses. As part of Cegid, we now reach over one million small businesses and 15,000 accountants across Europe, with teams spanning France, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, Poland, and the Netherlands.

One application. Multiple teams. The right fit.

We're not hiring for one role, we're hiring for many, and we want to find the best place for you within Shine's engineering organisation.

This is our Engineering Pool: a single application that puts you in front of multiple product and platform teams. Instead of applying to a specific opening and hoping it matches, you apply once. Our Talent Acquisition team will get to know you, understand what you're looking for, and help guide you to the team where you'll genuinely thrive.

You'll meet engineers from across the organisation to get a real feel for how we build and operate, and with the right match, you'll join a team where the culture, challenge, and craft align with your own growth.

Teams you could join

When you enter the pool, you'll be considered across teams working in domains such as:

• Accounting
• Platform
• Banking
• Invoicing
• CPA Solutions
  
  

What we're looking for

We don't hire to a rigid checklist. But across all teams and levels, we look for engineers who:

• Care about the product, not just the technology
• Take ownership: follow through, raise problems early, and care about outcomes
• Deliver with craft: build systems they're proud of and hold themselves to a high standard
• Collaborate well in a multicultural environment, communicating clearly in team rituals, code reviews, and cross-functional conversations
• Are honest, direct, and kind in how they work with others
• Are comfortable in a fast-moving environment, as we're building something ambitious and teams naturally evolve as we grow
• Have made AI a real part of how they build, in their editor, debugging, and design process, and have opinions on what works, because they've tried things
  
  

Levels

Our process is designed to assess the right level for you:

• Mid-level: Autonomous delivery, good technical judgement, ability to build and operate a feature end-to-end
• Senior: Technical depth, cross-team influence, mentorship, ability to shape technical direction
• Staff: System-level thinking, long-horizon ownership, meaningful impact spanning the engineering organisation
  
  

Our tech stack

Teams at Shine work with a modern stack. Depending on the team, you'll find:

• Languages: TypeScript
• Node.js
• PHP
• Kotlin
• Frontend: React
• React Native
• Next.js
• Frameworks: ExpressJS
• NestJS
• Laravel
• Architecture: Microservices
• Event-Driven
• CQRS
• Event Sourcing
• DDD
• REST APIs
• Pub/Sub
• Cloud: Azure
• GCP
• AWS
• Kubernetes
• Databases: PostgreSQL
• MySQL
• Spanner
• BigQuery
  
  

We don't expect you to know everything, we expect you to be genuinely good at your craft and ready to learn.

How this works

• Apply once: tell us about yourself, what you're looking for, and where you want to grow
• Intro call with Talent Acquisition: we'll learn about your background, your goals, and explore which teams could be the right match
• Technical evaluations: General Tech & Coding, System Design, and Engineering Manager interviews
• Stakeholder & Collaboration stage: you'll meet a Product Manager from Shine and get a sense of how we work together
• Soft skills interview: so we understand how best to support your growth at Shine
• Offer: if it's a match, we move fast
  
  

We want you to leave every stage feeling like you learned something about Shine, not just the other way around.

Where we work

We're a Hybrid Team With Engineering Hubs In

🇩🇪 Berlin

• 🇫🇷 Paris
• 🇩🇰 Copenhagen
• 🇵🇱 Gdansk
• 🇪🇸 Madrid 🇳🇱 Amsterdam
  
  

Your experience with Shine and Cegid should feel simple, transparent, and genuinely supportive, just as we treat our customers. If this sounds like somewhere you want to grow, we'd love to hear from you.