Senior / Staff Backend Engineer - remote friendly

Qonto; Paris; À distance; EUR 60 000 - 80 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

A leading FinTech company in Paris seeks a skilled Backend Engineer to design and develop scalable backend systems. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and work with technologies like Go and Ruby on Kubernetes. Candidates should have strong problem-solving skills and be fluent in English. This position offers competitive salary and great benefits.

Prestations

Dynamic career opportunities

Meal vouchers

Transportation reimbursement

Health insurance

Employee well-being initiatives

Monthly team events

Qualifications

• Solid experience in working on user-facing products.
• Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications.
• Experience in collaborative team environments.

Responsabilités

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

Connaissances

Problem solving

Quality-driven

Team player

Curiosity

Fluent in English

Outils

Go

Ruby

Kubernetes

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 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 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.

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 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.

Role responsibilities

• 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 Ruby 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 use 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: focus on upfront technical designs, team reviews, and smart slicing to drive quality and velocity
• A work environment that provides time, support, and autonomy to improve yourself, our systems, and processes
• A lean toolbox to monitor constant improvements (Kaizen, PDCA) in a collaborative way with peers and manager
• Engineers work in cross-functional teams and focus on one feature at a time
• Licenses for Cursor or Copilot to help engineers stay productive while coding

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 four 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 and exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications
• Problem solver: 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
• Quality-driven: You follow best practices regarding code quality, testing, and code reviews
• Curiosity: You are curious and open-minded
• Team player: Good communication skills, comfortable working in a team, and able to 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. You may have the missing piece of the puzzle we've been searching for.

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
• Meal vouchers
• Public transportation reimbursement
• 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 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
• 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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