Software Engineers at Qonto craft polished user experiences, highly scalable API’s and robust banking services, all to help create the finance solution all businesses love.

The backend engineering team at Qonto currently has over 45 highly skilled engineers, from all over the world, working closely in cross-functional teams to shape our finance solutions. They participate in the discussions on 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 Lead Backend Engineer at Qonto, you will

• Manage a team of 5 to 8 Frontend Engineers
• Coordinate with engineering, product and design leads to define a vision and strategy for your cross-functional team
• Drive the delivery of you cross-functional team to help us meet business objectives
• Mentor, pair, and delegate work to foster the professional and technical growth of your teammates
• Help build a collaborative, inclusive and supportive team culture and make it shine
• Run 1o1s and quarterly progress reviews to provide regular feedbacks to your team members
• Run interviews to hire new team members
• Design, build, test, document, run, review and maintain code in Golang/Ruby
• Support a critical service used by tens of thousands of users on a daily basis

Our primary languages are Golang and Ruby on the backend, EmberJS on the frontend, and Kotlin and Swift for our Mobile applications. Our platform runs on a Kubernetes cluster hosted on AWS, with PostgreSQL as our database of choice, using Kafka for our event sourcing and ELK for logging and auditing, among many other tools, services and applications.

🧠 What you could work on

As part of our Engineering Department, you will be the backend lead of a cross-functional team. Every cross-functional team handles a part of our product. A few examples of these teams are:

💳 Cards: the team responsible for all things cards. On the backend this includes but is not limited to: all things related to card shipment, paying with cards, billing for cards, and card security.

🏦 Ledger: the team working on our Core Banking System, which allows us to store transactions in an accurate, scalable and auditable way.

✈️ Onboarding: the team guiding users through a delightful and frictionless sign-up experience.

• Leadership: You can collaboratively lead the evolution of your cross-functional team.
• Team player: You have excellent communication skills, which help you diffuse knowledge across teams and align people to work successfully on their projects.
• Tech Skills: You have strong knowledge in Go and/or Ruby.
• Languages: You are fluent in English; French is a plus.

💪How we have adapted our hiring process during the Coronavirus crisis:

Is Qonto still recruiting? ✅
There are so many questions you may be asking yourself. The current public health crisis may have you doubting whether you should even be applying right now.
We strive to be the finance solution all businesses love. To continue to reach this goal, we need to hire talent more than ever. That’s why we guarantee a fully remote hiring process for all candidates! We are lucky to have digital tools to help us continue to live and work as best we can despite everything going on.

Here is what you can expect from our adapted recruitment process:

• A 60 min video-call with one of our Talent Acquisition Managers to better understand your career plan and answer any of your questions
• A 60 min video-call with our Head of Backend to create a strong alignment on what they’ll expect from you, and tell you more about their way to operate
• A fully remote exercise to evaluate your hard skills and understand how you see the world
• Video calls with future team members to discuss your exercise and help you project yourself in the company
• A Final video-call with Aymeric, our CTO

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

🎁 Perks

You got it: helping you succeed is our #1 priority. We have put together several perks to make your life easier and more will be added as Qonto grows further 🤗

• Office & Team Life

• 3,200 sqm fully-renovated building near Opera with WeWork services
• Monthly team events, and yearly offsite (Barcelona, Sicily… what’s next?)
• Free coffee, snacks in the kitchen and a budget allocated to managers for small team events
• The latest in Apple’s equipment

• Qonto’s benefits

• Tailor-made Remote Policy: from 2 days per week to Full remote
• A competitive salary package (healthcare, commute…)
• 10 days off in addition to the legal 25 days
• A Swile Card that you can use for lunch
• Access to thousands of gyms and activities for 10-30€ a month, through our partnership with Gymlib
• Relocation package and visa sponsorship for international talents (we have 25+ nationalities based in Paris!)
• Special parenthood policy (we are part of the Parental Act program)