Backend Engineer Manager - remote friendly

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.

Our journey: Founded in 2017 by Alexandre 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, and 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.

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 5-8 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 a language-agnostic stack (Ruby and GO)

• Maintain our high level of quality through strong testing methodologies, documentation, pairing, and learning,

• Help scale our backend code base while maintaining our strong engineering culture

• 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.

You'll be joining the Due Diligence domain (KYC/KYB), which is at the very heart of Qonto's most strategic milestone: becoming a fully licensed credit institution.

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, the Qonto 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 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, focus on one feature at a time.

🏅About You

• Management Experience: You have already had a first successful experience as a manager experience in fintech and/or KYC/KYB is a definite plus, familiarity with compliance-driven environments and regulatory constraints will help you hit the ground running.

• Technical Expertise: You have strong hands-on experience as a software engineer; experience in Ruby and/or Go is a plus. Experience with architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications is key.

• 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.

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

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