Job description
Senior/Staff - Backend Engineer - remote friendly
Company Overview
Founded in 2017 by Alexandre and Steve, Qonto has grown to 1,600+ Qontoers serving over 600,000+ customers across 8 European countries. 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.
Job Summary
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. 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.
Key Responsibilities
- 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.
Requirements / Qualifications
- 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 (Go and Ruby), 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.
Location
Berlin, Germany (Remote-friendly across Germany, France, Italy, Serbia, or Spain)
Employment Type
Full Time
