Qonto

Senior/Staff Backend Engineer - remote friendly

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5 years ago
Berlin, GermanySenior / Staff+

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, deploy, and maintain services that handle real-time financial transactions.
  • Co-own service architecture, resilience, and scalability using Domain-Driven Design principles.
  • Own reliability in production by monitoring services, handling incidents, tracking post-release impact, and addressing regressions.
  • Lead technical design discussions, anticipate risks, mentor less experienced engineers, and contribute to team technical leadership.
  • Improve engineering practices by fixing flaky CI, running post-mortems, performing root cause analysis, and propagating learnings.

Requirements

  • Strong backend engineering experience with large-scale web application architecture and real production constraints.
  • Ability to transfer quickly to similar technologies without prior experience in Qonto's exact stack.
  • Experience writing tests, setting up monitoring, handling incidents methodically, and conducting root cause analysis.
  • Ownership mindset focused on post-release impact, regression detection, and continuous improvement.
  • Ability to collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, Frontend and Mobile engineers, and other teams.
  • Fluency in English.

Benefits

  • Remote-friendly work is available while living in or relocating to Germany, France, Italy, Serbia, or Spain.
  • Access to Cursor or Copilot and unlimited access to AI tools.
  • Work in autonomous squad teams of 5 to 10 people with a clear project mission and full product-scope ownership.
  • Collaboration within a 190-person backend engineering community and a 500-person Product Engineering department.
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1,001-5,000 employees
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