Backend Team Lead - remote friendly

Qonto; Berlin; Remote; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Qonto as a Backend Team Lead and play a pivotal role in crafting user experiences and scalable APIs. You will lead a team of engineers, drive delivery, and ensure high-quality standards in a collaborative environment. This position offers a competitive salary, inclusive culture, and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Tailor-made remote work policy

Competitive salary package

Meal voucher

Public transportation reimbursement

Great health insurance

Employee well-being initiatives

Childcare benefits

Monthly team events

Qualifications

• Management experience with a successful track record.
• Strong proficiency in Ruby or Python.
• Experience with high-scale web applications.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of 3 to 5 Software Engineers.
• Drive the delivery of cross-functional team objectives.
• Design, build, and maintain code in Ruby.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

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 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.

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.

Mission : Join us as a Backend Team Lead to craft polished user experiences, highly scalable APIs, and robust banking services, all to help create the finance solution all businesses love!

Impact: As a Lead Backend, you will be part of a team of 120 highly skilled back-end engineers across Europe. You'll contribute directly to our product & the growth of your team.

As a Backend Team Lead at Qonto, you will

Drive a team:

• Manage a team of 3 to 5 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 your 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 Ruby

• 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 350 talented professionals. This department is organized into cross-functional teams (CFTs) across five 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.

• Regate by Qonto, a platform for accountants to help them manage company creation, invoicing, and pre-accounting for their clients.

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 with proficiency in Ruby or Python, and have had exposure 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;

- 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

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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