Frontend Team Lead (remote-friendly)

Qonto; Deutschland; Remote; EUR 80.000 - 100.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading financial services company in Germany seeks a Frontend Team Lead to drive their React migration and manage a team of engineers. The ideal candidate will have significant people management experience, a solid technical background in React, and the ability to collaborate across teams. This role offers a supportive environment aiming for diversity and continuous improvement.

Leistungen

Dynamic career track

Meal voucher

Public transportation reimbursement

Health insurance

Employee well-being initiatives

Monthly team events

Qualifikationen

• Meaningful experience as a team manager balancing technical work with leadership.
• Proven track record of delivering quality on time.
• Strong hands-on React experience; at least four years in frontend JS frameworks.

Aufgaben

• Manage a team of 5 Frontend Engineers focusing on management activities and coding.
• Lead the React migration initiative ensuring smooth transition.
• Drive the delivery of your Frontend team to ensure quality is shipped on time.

Kenntnisse

React expertise

People management

Stakeholder management

Tools

GenAI tools

Jobbeschreibung

Overview

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 are 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 a full-remote mode as long as you are living in (or willing to relocate to) Germany, France, Italy, Serbia or Spain.

Your mission

Join us as a Frontend Team Lead and help us drive the React migration while managing a high-performing team of frontend engineers in our Pricing domain. You will be part of a team of 80 Frontend engineers and managers shaping the financial app that will be used by one million SMEs by 2025.

As a Lead Frontend, your team will be composed of 5 Frontend Engineers working closely with Product, Backend and Mobile engineers within feature teams. You'll be joining at an exciting time as we complete our React migration with an ambitious close deadline.

Responsibilities

• People Management:
• Manage a team of 5 Frontend Engineers, spending approximately 80% of your time on management activities and 20% on coding
• Foster the professional and technical growth of your teammates through mentorship, pairing, and delegation
• Provide regular feedback to your team members through 1:1s and progress reviews
• Build a collaborative, inclusive, and supportive team culture
• Conduct interviews to hire new team members

• Technical Leadership & Delivery:
• Lead the React migration initiative with a challenging deadline, ensuring smooth transition from Ember.js
• Drive the delivery of your Frontend team to ensure quality is shipped on time on well-scoped projects to meet business objectives
• Embrace and promote GenAI tools within your team to enhance productivity and development workflows
• Manage stakeholder relationships across Product, Backend, and Mobile teams within your cross-functional team, focusing on complex monetization features
• Establish and use engineering best practices to ensure high quality
• Contribute to improving the Web team's operating system
• You will also contribute to making Qonto shine by writing blog articles or speaking at events

The Web team strives for excellence in management: we developed a comprehensive management training program from scratch in only five weeks. This program is now used by several Tech teams to fast-track engineers to leadership positions.

What you can expect

• Lean inspired methodology: We accelerate growth using structured tools inspired by Lean management. You will be immersed in this culture and practice of continuous learning, which we call the Qonto Way.
• Quality and continuous improvement: Our engineers, working in cross-functional teams, focus on one feature at a time. You will have autonomy to improve the team's operating system.
• Valorizing the analysis phase of software delivery: Emphasis on upfront technical designs, code reviews, and smart slicing to focus on quality and velocity.
• AI-first approach: We're integrating GenAI tools into development workflows and expect leads to champion this transformation.
• React migration: Joining during our React migration with an ambitious end-of-year completion target.
• Complex monetization challenges: The Pricing team works on sophisticated features that directly impact our business model and customer experience.
• Diversity: We value diversity and have 30% women in the Web team and 33% women in the Web managers group.

Your future manager

You will report to Adrien Cadet, Head of Mobile & Web for the Systems & Monetization domain.

About you

• People Management Experience: Meaningful experience as a team manager or challenges requiring people skills, balancing hands-on technical work with leadership.
• Delivery Excellence: Proven track record of delivering quality on time on well-scoped projects; balance speed with quality under tight deadlines.
• React Expertise: Strong hands-on React experience; at least four years in frontend JS frameworks. Ember experience is not required.
• AI Openness: Familiarity with GenAI tools and their application in development.
• Stakeholder Management: Excellent cross-team collaboration with Product, Backend, and Mobile teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Continuous improvement mindset: Drive improvements within your team and organization.

At Qonto we understand that true diversity isn’t just about ticking boxes on a hiring checklist. Apply regardless of the boxes you tick.

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
• 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 offers for sports and wellness
• A progressive disability and Parenthood policy 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
• 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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