Backend Team Lead - remote friendly

Qonto; France; À distance; EUR 70 000 - 90 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

A growing finance technology company in France is looking for a Backend Team Lead to manage a team of software engineers. You will drive the delivery of high-quality code in Go, foster a collaborative culture, and develop the technical growth of your team. With competitive salary and benefits, this is an exciting opportunity for someone with management experience and strong technical skills.

Prestations

Dynamic career track

Offices in several European cities

Competitive salary package

Meal voucher

Public transport reimbursement

Health insurance

Mental health initiatives

Childcare benefits

Monthly team events

Qualifications

• Strong experience as a software engineer.
• Experience in leading, developing, and retaining talent.
• Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications.

Responsabilités

• Manage a team of 8 Software Engineers.
• Work with engineering, product, and design leads to define a vision.
• Design, build, test, run, review, and maintain code in Go.

Connaissances

Management

Proficiency in Go

Excellent communication skills

Team collaboration

Outils

Ruby

Description du poste

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 | Ownership | Teamwork | Mastery | Integrity

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 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 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 Team Lead to craft polished user experiences, highly scalable APIs, and robust banking services, all to help create the finance solution all businesses love!

As a Lead Backend, you will be part of a team of 180 highly skilled back-end engineers across Europe. You'll contribute directly to our product & the growth of your team.

Responsibilities

As a Backend Team Lead at Qonto, you will

• Drive a team: Manage a team of 8 Software Engineers
• Provide regular feedback to your team members through 1-on-1s and half-yearly progress reviews
• Foster the professional and technical growth of 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 GO
• 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 at Qonto, you'll be part of our Product Engineering department which consists of +500 talented professionals. This department is organized into cross-functional teams (CFTs) across five domains, including: Customer Lifecycle, Business Account, Systems & Monetization, Financial Tools, and Regate by Qonto.

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 on one feature at a time.

About You

• Management Experience: You have already had a first successful experience as a manager, demonstrating your ability to lead, develop, and retain talent.
• Technical Expertise: You have strong experience as a software engineer; proficiency in Go is a must and Ruby is a plus, and you have been exposed to architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications.
• Leadership: You collaboratively lead the evolution of your team, setting clear goals and helping team members grow professionally.
• Team player: You have excellent communication skills, which help you diffuse knowledge across teams and align people to work successfully on their projects.
• 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;
• Competitive salary package;
• Ameal 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 or live exercise to demonstrate your skills and give you a taste of what working at Qonto could be like
• 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.

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