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Remote Lead Backend Engineer

Qonto

Paris, France

Remote within Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Serbia, Portugal

Posted about 11 hours ago

Lead position for one of the most exciting banks for SME businesses

Tech stack

  • Ruby

Our mission? Making day-to-day banking easier for SMEs and freelancers thanks to an online business account that's combined with invoicing, bookkeeping and spend management tools. Thanks to its innovative product, highly reactive 24/7 customer support and clear pricing, Qonto has become the leader in its market.


Our journey: Founded by Alexandre and Steve in July 2017, Qonto has rapidly gained trust, serving over 500,000 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 50% international team members, 44% women, and 20% parents. Join us in building a workplace that celebrates diversity and individuality.


🌏 LocationYou 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.


Mission: Join us as a Backend Team Lead to craft polished user experiences, highly scalable APIs, and robust banking services, all to help create the finance solution all businesses love!

⚡ Impact: As a Lead Backend, you will be part of a team of 120 highly skilled back-end engineers across Europe. You'll contribute directly to our product & the growth of your team.


👩‍💻🧑‍💻 As a Backend Team Lead at Qonto, you will


Build your own team:

• Manage a team of 3 to 5 Backend Engineers

• Provide regular feedback to your team members through 1-on-1s and quarterly progress reviews

• Foster the professional and technical growth of your teammates through mentorship, pairing, and delegation

• Build a collaborative, inclusive, and supportive team culture and make Qonto shine

• Conduct interviews to hire new team members


Drive the delivery:

• Work with engineering, product and design leads to define a vision and strategy for your cross-functional team

• Drive the delivery of your cross-functional team to meet business objectives

• Establish and use the best engineering practices to ensure high quality


Be hands-on:

• Design, build, test, document, run, review and maintain code in Golang, Python, or Ruby

• Maintain our high level of quality through strong testing methodologies, documentation, pairing, and learning,

• Help scale our backend code base while maintaining our strong engineering culture

• Support a critical service used by tens of thousands of users daily


🤝 About Your Future Team


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


These domains include:

• 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.


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

 

• We highly value the analysis phase of 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, focus one feature at a time.


🏅About You


• Leadership: You collaboratively lead the evolution of your team.

• Team player: You have excellent communication skills, which help you diffuse knowledge across teams and align people to work successfully on their projects.

• Experience: You have strong experience as a software engineer and have had exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications.

• 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;

- Tailor-made remote work policy depending on the job you apply for and where you live;

- Competitive salary package;

- A meal voucher;

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


We will send you an interview guide so you can best prepare yourself.

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

Compensation

€85K - 105K + Equity

Role type

Full time

Visa sponsorship

Not provided

Benefits & perks

  • Remote Working

  • Laptop

  • Team retreats

  • Extra vacation days

  • Relocation budget

  • Parental Leave

  • Gym memberships

  • Coffee & snacks

  • LUNCH TICKETS

  • Free meals & snacks

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