Engineering Manager - Accounting

Qonto; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Qonto is seeking a Team Lead – Accounting in Paris to lead a cross‑functional engineering team delivering AI‑driven accounting features and real‑time VAT insights for SMEs. You will collaborate with the Head of Engineering for the Accounting domain and drive technical design while maintaining a hands‑on approach.

The role emphasizes people leadership, strong backend or frontend expertise (Go or React), and a passion for AI‑enabled product experiences in a fast‑growing fintech environment.

Qualifications

• Experience leading software engineering teams.
• Hands-on backend (Go) or frontend (React) development.
• Experience with AI-enabled development.
• Fluent in French and English.

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross‑functional team of Backend and Frontend engineers and help each grow.
• Build features that generate bookkeeping automatically and show customers VAT in real time.
• Turn complex accounting steps into a clear experience for business owners.
• Ship AI‑first experiences, like chat assistants based on customers’ accounting data.
• Co‑own the product‑roadmap with the Product Manager and Designer while guiding technical design.

Skills

People leadership

Technical depth

AI‑driven development

Fluent English

Tools

Go

ReactJS

Kotlin

Swift

Kubernetes

AWS

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Job description

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 1,700 Qontoers serving over 750,000 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 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.

Mission

Join us as Team Lead – Accounting and help build the last missing piece of Qonto's all-in-one offer for businesses. You'll lead a cross-functional team of Backend and Frontend engineers making accounting effortless for business owners, under the guidance of Yanis, our Head of Engineering for the Accounting domain.

What you'll do

• Lead your team: You'll manage a team of Backend and Frontend engineers and help each of them grow.
• Put accounting on autopilot: You'll build features that generate bookkeeping automatically and show customers, in real time, the VAT they owe.
• Make accounting simple: You'll turn complex accounting and tax steps into a clear experience that business owners can complete with confidence.
• Bring AI into accounting: You'll ship AI‑first experiences, like a chat that answers customers from their own accounting file.
• Co‑own the product & keep the technical bar high: You'll shape the roadmap with your Product Manager and Designer, and guide technical design with your engineers while staying close to the code.

What we're looking for

• People leadership: You've led engineers as a manager or Tech Lead, and you're driven by helping people grow.
• Technical depth: You've built production systems in backend (Go) or frontend (React), and you've coded recently or bring strong system design skills.
• AI‑driven development: You use AI in your own engineering work and push your team to raise the bar with it.
• Languages: You're fluent in French and English.
• Bonus: You're familiar with the French accounting world, its services and how accountants work with businesses.

What we can offer you

• A product at launch: You'll join right after the first launch of Qonto Accounting and shape what it becomes.
• Visible business impact: Accounting keeps customers with Qonto for the long run, so your team’s work shows up directly in loyalty.
• A domain on the move: Qonto Accounting is growing fast in France and starting to expand to other European markets.

Your future manager

You'll report to Yanis, Head of Engineering, but don't expect micro‑management. Yanis grew from Lead Engineer to Head of Engineering over 4 years at Qonto.

He's a pragmatic generalist who has built payment integrations from scratch and is as comfortable on the frontend as on the backend. He gives engineers real ownership, values sharing failures as much as wins, and gets out of the way so the team can ship.

Our stack & practices

• Our primary languages are Go and Ruby, ReactJS for frontend, and Kotlin and Swift for our mobile apps.
• Our platform runs on Kubernetes, hosted on AWS, with PostgreSQL as our database of choice.
• We use Kafka for event‑driven architecture and ELK for logging and auditing, among many other tools.
• Each engineer gets access AI‑first tooling (Claude Code, Cursor, Notion AI), and we want people who use AI to raise the bar, not just to go faster. Read our AI vision statement.

Our methodology: the Qonto Way

• We value upfront technical design, team code reviews, and smart slicing — quality drives the velocity our customers need.
• Our lean toolbox, Kaizen and PDCA, lets you drive continuous improvement with your peers and manager.
• Want to go further? Read about the Qonto Way.

About our Hiring Process

• 2 Interviews (1 hour each): first with your Talent Acquisition Manager, then with Yanis, your future direct manager
• AI Live skill test (Backend or Frontend) with two engineers (2 hours)
• Final interview and meeting with Carl, our VP Engineering (1 hour)

We aim to wrap the process in 10 business days max, from first interview to potential offer

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