Senior/Staff - Go Backend Engineer - remote friendly

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

Job summary

Qonto is hiring a Backend Engineer to build the financial infrastructure powering 600,000+ European SMEs. You will design, implement, and maintain scalable services in production, using Go and Ruby, Kubernetes on AWS, and event-driven architectures with Kafka and ELK.

Collaborate across Product, Design, and Platform teams while owning quality and reliability. You’ll participate in architecture discussions, mentor teammates, and drive improvements across the backend ecosystem, embracing an

Qualifications

• Strong backend engineering experience with large-scale web applications
• Ability to own design discussions and mentor engineers
• Fluent English in a collaborative environment
• Ability to deliver reliable services in production
• Interest in working across squads with Product and Design teams

Responsibilities

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain services handling real financial transactions, with reliability in production
• Co-own service architecture, resilience, and scalability following Domain-Driven Design
• Grow in technical leadership by leading design discussions and mentoring engineers
• Drive continuous improvement through CI, post-mortems, and knowledge sharing

Skills

Backend engineering

Technical leadership

Team collaboration

English proficiency

Tools

Go

Ruby

Kubernetes

AWS

PostgreSQL

Kafka

ELK

Job description

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 cultureputs 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 byAlexandre and Steve, Qonto has grown to 1,600+ Qontoers serving over 600,000+ 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 (here)- 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.
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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.

As a Backend Engineer at Qonto, you will

• 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

Our primary languages are Go and Ruby. Our platform runs on a Kubernetes cluster hosted on AWS, with PostgreSQL as our database of choice. We're also using Kafka for event-driven architecture and ELK for logging and auditing, among many other tools and services.

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.

About You

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.