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Qonto; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Qonto is seeking a Backend Engineer to build the financial infrastructure supporting 600,000+ European SMEs with real-time, scalable APIs and robust banking services. You will work across teams to ensure reliability and strong architecture while embracing a culture driven by experimentation and AI tools.

You will join a mission-based team of engineers, product managers, and designers, owning design decisions, code quality, and production monitoring, with opportunities to mentor others and

Qualifications

• Strong backend engineering experience with large-scale web applications.
• Ability to reason about production constraints and reliability.
• Experience writing tests and setting up monitoring and alerting.
• Ability to own features from design through production and post-release.
• Collaborative mindset with PMs and designers in cross-functional squads.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain services handling real financial transactions with production reliability.
• Co-own service architecture, resilience, and scalability following Domain-Driven Design principles.
• Grow in technical leadership: lead design discussions, anticipate risks, and mentor engineers.
• Drive continuous improvement: fix flaky CI, run post-mortems, and share learnings across the team.

Skills

Backend engineering

Large-scale architecture

Testing and monitoring

Root cause analysis

Ownership and accountability

Team collaboration

Job description

Описание

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 at Qonto: AI is deeply embedded in how we work. 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.

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, or Spain.

Mission

Join us as a Backend Engineer to build the financial infrastructure that 600,000+ European SMEs depend on every day, from highly scalable APIs to robust banking services that handle real money, in real time, with zero room for mistakes.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain services handling real financial transactions, owning reliability in production, not just at merge time.
• Co‑own service architecture, resilience, and scalability with respect to Domain-Driven Design principles.
• Grow in technical leadership: lead design discussions, anticipate risks, and mentor less experienced engineers.
• Drive continuous improvement, from fixing flaky CI to running post‑mortems and propagating learnings across the team.

What you can expect

• Our methodology, the Qonto Way
• We value upfront technical design, team reviews, and smart slicing, quality drives the velocity our customers need.
• Our org assigns one team lead per project across stacks, giving your team a clear mission and full autonomy on how it operates.
• Our lean toolbox, Kaizen, PDCA, lets you monitor and drive continuous improvement collaboratively with your peers and manager.
• Each engineer gets access to Cursor or Copilot, and we want people who use AI to raise the bar, not just to go faster.

Your future team

As a Backend Engineer at Qonto, you'll join one of our mission‑based teams, typically made up of 5 to 10 engineers and led by a dedicated Engineering Manager. You'll work alongside backend, web, iOS, and Android engineers, as well as Product Managers and Designers, joining either:

• A Product team, building and operating features used directly by customers.
• A Platform team, developing and maintaining the scalable foundations that help Product teams move faster.

Your team owns a clear mission end‑to‑end. You'll contribute to discovery, make technical decisions, build and release solutions, monitor production performance, and steadily raise quality standards, following our "you build it, you own it" approach. Beyond your immediate team, you'll stay connected with Qonto's wider Backend community through our Backend Guild, where engineers share knowledge, shape technical standards, and improve developer experience across the organization.

Requirements

• Technical expertise: Strong backend engineering experience with exposure to large‑scale web application architecture and real production constraints.
• Stack fluency: You don't need to know our exact stack, but you transfer fast and are comfortable with similar technologies.
• Quality‑driven: You write tests, set up monitoring, handle incidents methodically, and do root cause analysis.
• Ownership mindset: You track impact after release, flag regressions, and improve what's in your scope without being asked.
• Team player: Comfortable working in squad teams with PMs, Designers, and other stacks; 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.

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Hiring Process

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