Senior/Staff Backend Engineer

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.

Discover the steps we took to create a discrimination-free hiring process.

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,

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 to 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
450-strong Product Engineering
department, organized into cross-functional teams (CFTs) across five 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 6-8 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

To learn more about us:

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