Senior/Staff Backend Engineer - remote friendly

Meyandy LLC; Berlin; Remote; EUR 90.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Qonto is hiring a Backend Engineer to build the financial infrastructure used by 600,000+ European SMEs, delivering highly scalable APIs and robust real-time banking services.

You will design, implement, deploy, and maintain services that handle real money with zero room for mistakes, and co-own service architecture and scalability. This role emphasizes technical leadership and mentoring.

Qualifikationen

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain services handling real financial transactions.
• Own reliability in production; not just at merge time.
• Grow in technical leadership: lead design discussions and mentor engineers.

Aufgaben

• Design, build, deploy and maintain services handling real financial transactions.
• Own reliability in production and production readiness across services.
• Lead design discussions, anticipate risks, and mentor less experienced engineers.
• Drive continuous improvement across CI and post-mortems.

Kenntnisse

Go

Ruby

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

PostgreSQL

Kafka

ELK

Jobbeschreibung

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.

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, or Spain.

Mission:

Join us as a Backend Engineer to build the financial infrastructure that 600,000+ European SMEs depend on every day, from highly scalable APIs to robust banking services that handle real money, in real time, with zero room for mistakes.

As a Backend Engineer at Qonto, you will:

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain services handling real financial transactions, owning reliability in production, not just at merge time.
• Co‑own service architecture, resilience, and scalability with respect to Domain‑Driven Design principles.
• Grow in technical leadership: lead design discussions, anticipate risks, and mentor less experienced engineers.
• Drive continuous improvement, from fixing flaky CI to running post‑mortems and propagating learnings across the team.

Our primary languages are Go and Ruby.

Our platform runs on a Kubernetes cluster hosted on AWS, with PostgreSQL as our database of choice.

We're also using Kafka for event‑driven architecture and ELK for logging and auditing, among many other tools and services.

What you can expect:

• our methodology, the Qonto Way
• We value upfront technical design, team reviews, and smart slicing, quality drives the velocity our customers need
• Our org assigns one team lead per project across stacks, giving your team a clear mission and full autonomy on how it operates
• Our lean toolbox, Kaizen, PDCA, lets…

Senior/Staff Backend Engineer - remote friendly — Qonto, Berlin.