Job Specifications
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 600,000 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 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.
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 Go and Ruby for backend, React.js 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're also using 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, 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.
We value the efficiency and productivity of our engineers: that’s why we provide each of our engineers with licenses for Cursor or Copilot, enabling them to focus on what they do best – coding innovative solutions
Your future team
As a Backend Engineer at Qonto, you'll join a team 450-strong Product Engineering department, organized into cross-functional teams (CFTs) across five 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 6-8 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 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 l