🌏 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.

⭐ Mission: Join us as a Backend Team Lead to craft polished user experiences, highly scalable APIs, and robust banking services, all to help create the finance solution all businesses love!

⚡ Impact: As a Lead Backend, you will be part of a team of 120 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

• Manage a team of 3 to 5 Backend Engineers

• Provide regular feedback to your team members through 1-on-1s and quarterly 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

• 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

• Design, build, test, document, run, review and maintain code in Golang, Python, or Ruby

• 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

As a Backend Team Lead engineer at Qonto, you'll join a team 350-strong Product Engineering department, organized into cross-functional teams (CFTs) across four 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.

🤔 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 one feature at a time.

• Leadership: You collaboratively lead the evolution of your team.

• Team player: You have excellent communication skills, which help you diffuse knowledge across teams and align people to work successfully on their projects.

• Experience: You have strong experience as a software engineer and have had exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications.

• Languages: You are fluent in English.