Senior / Staff Backend Engineer - remote friendly

Our mission and customers: We are creating the freedom for SMEs to succeed by delivering Europe's leading finance workspace with banking at its core, augmented by financial tools. We are proud to be rated 4.8 on Trustpilot, based on 55,000+ reviews. Our culture puts customer satisfaction at the core of what we do, as proven by our Net Promoter Score of 75 (more about our culture here).

Our journey: Founded in 2017 by Alexandre and Steve, Qonto has grown to 1,600+ Qontoers serving over 600,000+ customers across 8 European countries. We have been profitable since 2023, and we are just getting started.

Our beliefs: We hire for skills and potential. With 80+ nationalities, 45% women, of which 56% of women in our leadership team, diversity isn't a program; It's who we are. We've built a discrimination-free hiring process because the best teams are built on merit.

AI at Qonto: AI is deeply embedded in how we work (here) - Every Qontoer gets unlimited access to the best AI tools. We want people who experiment without waiting for permission, push AI beyond the obvious, know when to trust it, and when to question it.

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🌏 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 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 350-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 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.

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.

 

By applying, you agree that Qonto processes your personal data to assess your application. Your data is kept for up to 2 years in our candidate pool. Read our Privacy Notice for full details.

 

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On average, our hiring process lasts 20 working days. More information on our candidate journey here

 

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🔒 Your security matters to us

Recruitment scams are on the rise. Keep in mind, we will never work with third-party platforms or agencies that request payment from candidates.

If you receive a suspicious message claiming to be from Qonto, please report it right away (support@qonto.com)