Senior Ruby Backend Engineer - remote friendly

Qonto; France; À distance; EUR 45 000 - 70 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

A leading financial solution provider in France is seeking a skilled Backend Engineer to design and maintain robust banking services. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and have a significant impact on the product direction. Ideal candidates have strong experience with Ruby on Rails and a commitment to quality coding practices. This role offers a competitive salary, supportive team environment, and opportunities for development.

Prestations

Dynamic career track

Possibility to work remotely from Portugal

Competitive salary package

Great health insurance

Budget for remote work

Laptop and IT equipment

Employee well-being initiatives

Monthly team events

Qualifications

• Solid experience in user-facing products using Ruby on Rails.
• Experience with architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications.
• Fluent in English.

Responsabilités

• Design, develop, deploy and maintain applications.
• Produce and ship high-quality, well-documented code.
• Co-own services architecture, resilience, scalability and robustness.

Connaissances

Problem solving

Teamwork

Curiosity

Quality-driven

Outils

Ruby on Rails

Kubernetes

AWS

PostgreSQL

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 | 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'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.

Discover the steps we took to create a discrimination-free hiring process.

Role

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 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 using Ruby on Rails, 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.

Perks

• A tailor-made and dynamic career track. An inclusive work environment. And so much more to help you succeed.
• The possibility to work remotely from Portugal
• Competitive salary package
• A great health insurance (with Safety Wings)
• A budget for remote work (50 euros per month)
• A laptop and IT equipment
• Employee well-being initiatives: access to Moka Care to take care of your mental health and great offers for sports and wellness activities
• 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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