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.
🌏 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.
Join us as a Team Lead to craft polished user experiences, highly scalable APIs, and robust banking services, all to help create the finance solution all businesses love!
As a Lead Backend, you will be part of a team of 180 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 8 Backend 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 GO
• Maintain our high level of quality through strong testing methodologies, documentation, pairing, and learning,
• 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 +500 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, theQonto 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 t
o 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, proficiency in Go is a great bonus, and you have been exposed 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;
- Competitive salary package;
- Meal vouchers;
- 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 or live exercise to demonstrate your skills and give you a taste of what working at Qonto could be like
On average our process lasts 20 working days and offers usually follow within 48 hours 🤞
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