Senior / Staff Backend Software Engineer - Remote Friendly

Qonto; Milano; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tailor-made remote work policy

Competitive salary

Health insurance

Monthly team events

Office in Milan

Job summary

Qonto is seeking a Backend Engineer to join a 350-strong Product Engineering department in Milan. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to shape banking solutions, contribute to architecture, and deliver high-quality backend services built on Python, Go, and Ruby, deployed on Kubernetes in AWS.

You’ll grow in technical leadership, mentor peers, and help evolve systems for tens of thousands of users in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience as a software engineer in large-scale web apps.
• Ability to turn ambiguity into practical software solutions.
• Strong collaboration with cross-functional teams and product managers.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, deploy, and maintain new and existing applications to meet 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

Skills

Software engineering

Problem solving

Team collaboration

English fluency

Tools

Python

Go

Ruby

Kubernetes

AWS

PostgreSQL

Kafka

ELK stack

Job description

Our mission? Making day-to-day banking easier for SMEs and freelancers thanks to an online business account that's combined with invoicing, bookkeeping and spend management tools. Thanks to its innovative product, highly reactive 24/7 customer support and clear pricing, Qonto has become the leader in its market.

Our journey: Founded by Alexandre and Steve in July 2017, Qonto has rapidly gained trust, serving over 500,000 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 50% international team members, 44% women, and 20% parents. Join us in building a workplace that celebrates diversity and individuality.

Our mission? Making day-to-day banking easier for SMEs and freelancers thanks to an online business account that's combined with invoicing, bookkeeping and spend management tools. Thanks to its innovative product, highly reactive 24/7 customer support and clear pricing, Qonto has become the leader in its market.

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Impact: As a Backend Engineer, you will be part of a team of 120 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 Python, Go, and Ruby for the backend, EmberJS for the 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 usingKafkafor our event-driven architecture and ELK for logging and auditing, among many other tools, services, and applications.

Many Qontoers have learned Go and/or Ruby since they joined. As long as you've been using either Java, Javascript, or Typescript intensively in your experience, we trust you’ll grow quickly on our stack!

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.

As a Backend Engineer at Qonto, you'll join a 350-strong Product Engineering department, organized into cross-functional teams (CFTs) across four domains.

These domains include :

• 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.

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: You have strong experience as a software engineer 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.

• - Offices in Paris, Berlin, Milan, Barcelona, and Belgrade;
• - Tailor-made remote work policy depending on the job you apply for and where you live;
• - 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 exercise to demonstrate your skills and give you a taste of what working at Qonto could be like

We will send you aninterview guide so you can best prepare yourself.

On average, our process lasts20 working days and offers usually follow within48 hours.

To learn more about us:

Qonto's Blog | Forbes Italy I La Repubblica | Il Sole 24 Ore

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