Senior / Staff Backend Engineer - remote friendly

Our mission? Creating the freedom for SMEs to succeed in business and beyond, by delivering Europe’s leading finance workspace. We combine business-class tools (seamless invoicing, spend management, and pre-accounting) with unwaveringly attentive 24/7 support, designed to help businesses breeze through all things finance.

Our journey: Founded by Alexandre and Steve in July 2017, Qonto has rapidly gained trust, serving over 600,000 customers. Thanks to our wonderful team of 1,600+ Qontoers, we also made it to the LinkedIn Top Companies French ranking!

Our values:

Customer focus | Prioritize customers in everything you do

Ownership | Own your part, get things done

Teamwork | Make (team)work easy

Mastery | Continuously raise the bar

Integrity | Always do what’s right, and respect people

Our beliefs: At Qonto, we're committed to fostering a welcoming environment where everyone can thrive. We prioritize evaluating applicants based solely on skills and potential, ensuring diversity with 55% international team members, 44% women, and 20% parents. Join us in building a workplace that celebrates diversity and individuality.

🌏 Location: You can choose to work in Qonto as long as you're living in (or willing to relocate to) either Germany , France , Italy , Serbia, Portugal, or Spain .

Join us as a Backend Engineer to craft polished user experiences, highly scalable APIs and robust banking services, all to help create the finance solution all businesses love.

As a Backend Engineer , you will be part of a team of 180 highly skilled back-end engineers from all over the world. You will work closely in cross-functional teams to shape our finance solutions. You will also take part in the direction of our banking product, manage how we will handle our ever-growing user base needs, and deliver high-quality products in a fast-paced environment.

👩‍💻🧑‍💻 As a Backend Engineer at Qonto, you will

• Design, develop, deploy and maintain new and existing applications to reach the team’s goals and to meet the stakeholders’ needs

Produce and ship high-quality, well-documented code

• Co-own our services architecture, resilience, scalability and robustness, with respect to Domain-Driven Design principles

• Grow on technical leadership & mentorship of other engineers

Our primary languages are Go and Ruby for backend, EmberJS for frontend, and Kotlin and Swift for our mobile apps. Our platform runs on a Kubernetes cluster hosted on AWS , with PostgreSQL as our database of choice. We're also using Kafka for our event-driven architecture and ELK for logging and auditing, among many other tools, services, and applications.

🤔 What you can expect: our methodology, the Qonto Way

• We highly value the analysis phase on software delivery. We're putting a heavy emphasis on upfront technical designs, team reviews, and smart slicing. You can expect to focus on quality , which we believe drives the velocity our customers need.

• We think success comes from a space where you're given time, support, and autonomy t o improve yourself, our systems and our processes . Our lean toolbox enables you to monitor your constant improvements ( Kaizen , PDCA) in a collaborative way with your peers and manager.

• Our engineers, working in cross-functional teams, dedicate themselves to one feature at a time .

• We value the efficiency and productivity of our engineers: that’s why we provide each of our engineers with licenses for Cursor or Copilot , enabling them to focus on what they do best – coding innovative solutions

🤝 Your future team

As a Backend Engineer at Qonto, you'll join a team 350-strong Product Engineering department, organized into cross-functional teams (CFTs) across four domains:

• Customer Lifecycle , focusing on account management and compliance,

• Business Account , enhancing payments and financial tools,

• Systems & Monetization , optimizing integrations and pricing,

• Financial Tools , supporting cash flow management and bookkeeping.

• Regate by Qonto, providing collaborative accounting solutions for accounting firms through automated pre-accounting, invoice processing, and seamless integration with major accounting software.

You'll work in a CFT of 4-6 backend engineers, owning your product scope and collaborating closely with mobile, frontend teams, and product managers to deliver impactful solutions.

🏅About You

• Experience : As a software engineer, you have solid experience in working on user-facing products and have had exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications

• Problem solver : You are a pragmatic and product-driven engineer, with an interest in solving problems and delivering value to customers;

• Impact maker : You want to help build an innovative product used by tens of thousands of users and leave your mark;

• Quality-driven : You follow best practices regarding code quality, testing, and code reviews;

• Curiosity: You are a curious and open-minded engineer eager to learn;

• Team player : You have good communication skills, are comfortable working in a team, and can easily work with non-technical colleagues;

• Languages: You are fluent in English.

At Qonto we understand that true diversity isn't just about ticking boxes on a hiring checklist. Apply regardless of the boxes you tick! Who knows? You may have the missing piece of the puzzle we've been searching for all along.

🎁 Perks

A tailor-made and dynamic career track. An inclusive work environment. And so much more to help you succeed.

- Offices in Paris, Berlin, Milan, Barcelona, and Belgrade;

- Competitive salary package;

- Meal vouchers;

- Public transportation reimbursement (part or global);

- A great health insurance (depending on the country);

- Employee well-being initiatives: access to Moka Care to take care of your mental health and great offers for sports and wellness activities;

- A progressive disability and parenthood policy (1 in 6 of Qonto employees is a parent!) and childcare benefits with selected partners;

- Monthly team events.

💬 Our hiring process:

- Interviews with your Talent Acquisition Manager and future managers

- A remote or live exercise to demonstrate your skills and give you a taste of what working at Qonto could be like

Find more information about our interview process on our careers website .

On average our process lasts 20 working days and offers usually follow within 48 hours 🤞

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