Backend Engineer at Qonto - Paris, France

Job Description

Our mission is to create the most amazing banking experience for SMEs through technology, elegant design, and an outstanding sense of customer care. At Qonto, we believe that great services come from great thinkers, that’s why we strive to provide an environment that will allow you to feel comfortable and help you excel in your work (read more about our method).

Alexandre and Steve launched Qonto in July 2017, and the team reached great achievements since then:

• Market leader for online SME banking in Europe

• 75,000 SME clients

• Outstanding customer satisfaction (App Store | Google Play | TrustPilot)

• Recognized as one of the best startups to work at (Wired | LinkedIn)

• €136 million raised

• International investors with a solid fintech experience

• And 200+ happy Qontoers helping us building the bank of our dreams (just that!)

Our values:

• Ambition | We tackle big challenges no matter what

• Teamwork | We create magic by collaborating at the same speed

• Mastery | We pursue excellence through continuous learning and by facing challenges humbly every day

• Integrity | We are transparent and trustworthy with our clients and each other

As part of the tech team, you will join a crew of experienced engineers working on crafting the best possible user experience and building a highly scalable code base. Our stacks are Ruby and Go for the backend; EmberJS for the frontend; Kotlin and Swift for the mobile. Our tools/stack include Kafka, Kubernetes, ELK, AWS services and all the good stuffs you could think of!

As a Software Backend Engineer, you will work on improving and scaling the most sensitive piece of Qonto infrastructure. You will ensure the safety and robustness of systems handling hundreds of thousands of complex requests a day. You will also work on shipping innovative new banking features for an exponentially growing user base.

⛳️Your responsibilities

• Architect and develop the services: You will enrich our APIs through maximum resilience
• Develop the architecture: You will improve microservices architecture of our API
• Supervise the technical aspect: You will be responsible for the technical aspect of our backend and participate in complex conception issues
• Maintain a high level of quality: You will implement various test suites to ensure the quality of the system.
• Improve technical solution: You will make your work very scalable, strongly robust and highly secured
• Consolidate data: You will Integrate data coming from different sources (including banking APIs and SaaS APIs)
• Share knowledge: You are willing to participate in the development of our open-source and internal tools

🏅About You

• Experience: You have 5+ years experience as a software engineer and you had exposure to architectural patterns of a large, high-scale web applications and micro-services
• Mastery: You have a strong knowledge and experience in Go, Ruby, Java, Python, C or Scala
• Problem solver: You are pragmatic and solution-oriented
• Make an impact: You want to build an innovative product to be used by thousands of users
• Best Practices: You work in an organized manner with test coverage, and other best practices
• Curiosity: You are a curious and open-minded developer, open to working on both Go and Ruby
• Team player: You have good communication skills and you know how to work with a team
• Languages: You are fluent in English. French is a plus.

🤔 What you can expect

• Joining a team of more than 35 highly skilled backend engineers
• The possibility to work 100% remotely (depending on your profile and current situation)
• Contributing to the creation of multiple banking services used by thousands of client in 4 different countries
• Taking part on creating a scalable Core Banking System that provides stable and secure banking accounts
• Working on open source projects to contribute to your stack’s community
• Participating and organizing numerous events (Meet-ups, Talks, conferences…) to make Qonto’s engineering culture even stronger and recognized around the globe

🎁 Perks

• You got it: helping you succeed is our #1 priority. We have put together several perks to make your life easier and more will unlock as Qonto grows further 🤗

• Team

• 3,200 sqm fully-renovated building near Opera with WeWork services

• Monthly team events, and yearly offsite (Barcelona, Sicily… what’s next?)

• Free coffee, snacks in the kitchen and a budget allocated to managers for small team events

• The latest in Apple’s equipment

• Qonto’s benefits

• 1 day of remote work per week

• 5 to 10 days off in addition to the legal 25 days

• A Qonto Card that you can use as for lunch

• Access to thousands of gyms and activities for 10-30€ a month, through our partnership with Gymlib

• Relocation package and visa sponsorship for international talents (we have 25+ nationalities based in Paris!)

• Special parenthood policy (we are part of the Parental Act program)

💪 Hiring process

• What to expect from our hiring process?

- A 60 min video-call with one of our talent acquisition managers to better understand your career plan and answer any of your questions

- A 60min interview with your future manager to create a strong alignment on what he’ll expect from you, and tell you more on his way to operate

- An exercise to evaluate your hard skills and understand how you see the world

- Onsite interviews with future team members to help you project yourself

- A final interview with the manager of your future department

• On average our process lasts 20 working days and offers usually follow within 48 hours 🤞

Thank you for considering to join Qonto. We cannot wait to learn more about you!

If you want to learn more about us: Our Method | Qonto's Blog | TechCrunch |

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