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Jobs
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Funding and backers

Total raised
$652M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$497M
Venture round · Feb 2022 · 4 yr ago
Team
501-1000
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
12
+4 posted in 30 days
The money's age
Long since its last round
55 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
23/100
hiring for its size, a new city
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Feb 24, 2022 Raised a round Venture round $497M Sep 9, 2021 Raised a round Series A $155M · led by Tiger Global Management · PRNewswire 2019 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.04%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Feb 2022 $497M — sifted.eu
Series A Sep 2021 $155M Tiger Global Management lead PRNewswire
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity SCALAPAY S.R.L. its site
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How Scalapay hires

Truth index
A 85/100
Median time to fill
61 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
40%
Reposted roles
0%

Scalapay scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 5 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 40% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 61 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Scalapay is an Italian fintech founded in 2019 and headquartered in Milan. Its buy now pay later service lets shoppers split purchases into instalments while merchants are paid upfront. The company reached unicorn status in 2022 and works with thousands of European retailers.

News

News Nasdaq 3 years ago
Marqeta Signs Multi-year Contract With Scalapay To Deliver Buy Now Pay Later Across Europe
(RTTNews) - Marqeta Inc. (MQ), a card issuing platform that companies use to launch and manage their payment card programs said on Tuesday that it has inked a five-year contract with Scalapay, a Buy Now, Pay Later or BNPL provider, to leverage Marqeta's p
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News PYMNTS.com 3 years ago
Scalapay Acquires Italian Payment Institution Cabel IP
Buy now, pay later provider Scalapay has acquired Italian payment institution Cabel IP to accelerate its growth in Europe and launch new products and services.
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News TechCrunch 5 years ago
Scalapay raises $155M at a $700M valuation as buy now, pay later services continue to boom
Scalapay, a buy now, pay later (BNPL) technology provider that has made significant headway with retailers and consumers in Europe and in categories like
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Press release PRNewswire 5 years ago
Scalapay Raises $155M Series A at a $700M valuation led by Tiger Global to Provide BNPL Globally
/PRNewswire/ -- Scalapay, a leading payment solution in Southern Europe that enables customers to buy now and pay later (BNPL) without interest, today...
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News Business Insider 5 years ago
We got an exclusive look at the pitch deck deck buy now pay later startup Scalapay used to raise a massive $48 million seed round
Italy-based BNPL fintech startup Scalapay has raised a major $48 million round as European demand spikes.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Scalapay over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
23
Postings analysed
6
Stack modernity
93/100AI adopter
Languages
SQL
Python
Node JS
TypeScript
Frameworks & libraries
Jest
Nest.JS
Next.js
React.js
Databases
DynamoDB
MySQL
Redis
Cloud & platforms
AWS
Buildkite
AI & ML
ChatGPT
Claude
Gemini
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Full Scalapay tech stack 23 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$49k
Typical range
$27k – $157k
Open positions
8
6 Jobs
Junior 33.3%
Middle 33.3%
Staff 33.3%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 2 $36k $27k – $45k
Middle 2 $47k $45k – $49k
Staff 2 $129k $101k – $157k
Highest paying role Strategic Enterprise Account Executive FRANCE $157k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Scalapay By role, level and city, against the market · 8 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
84/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
12
5 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
61 days
faster than 21% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Administrative
25% ▲
Finance
25% ▲
Legal
25% ▼
Data Science
13% ▲
Backend
13% ▲
Activity Timeline
New location: Wollongong Oct 2026
New location: Barcelona Sep 2026
Added dbt to stack Sep 2026
Added CI/CD to stack Sep 2026
Added A/B Testing to stack Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Office to stack Sep 2026
Added Python to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
5
Hiring now
4
Countries
5
Busiest office
Milan
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Milan Italy
HQ
Milan
9 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 11% engineering 500-1000 est. staff $53k Avg Salary
hires for Legal, Sales, Data Science
seen since Dec 2025 careers board, job postings
Paris France
Sales office
Paris
2 open roles 50-200 est. staff $157k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Early Careers
seen since Dec 2025 careers board, job postings
Wollongong Australia
Engineering / R&D
Wollongong
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Backend
seen since Oct 2026 careers board, job postings
Barcelona Spain
Regional office
Barcelona
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $49k Avg Salary
hires for Finance
seen since Sep 2026 careers board, job postings
Shanghai China
Regional office
Shanghai
careers board

Jobs

≈ $76k – $161k per year (Estimated) • In office • 5+ years exp • Wollongong
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node JS
Nest.JS
Databases
MySQL
Redis
DynamoDB
AI/ML
Claude Code
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
CI/CD
Git
AWS
Docker
Buildkite
Management
Agile
QA
Jest
Apply
$36k – $49k per year (gross) • In office • 4+ years exp • Master's Degree • Milan
Python
SQL
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Financials

Total raised
$652M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
2
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount Valuation
Venture - Series Unknown 2022 $497M — Details
Series A 2021 $155M $700M Details