over 5 years ago
Berlin, GermanySenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Design, build, deploy, and maintain services handling real financial transactions.
- Co-own service architecture, resilience, and scalability.
- Lead technical design discussions, anticipate risks, and mentor less experienced engineers.
- Write tests, set up monitoring, handle incidents, and perform root cause analysis.
- Track post-release impact, identify regressions, and improve owned systems.
- Participate in discovery, technical decision-making, solution delivery, production monitoring, and quality improvement.
- Contribute to team reviews, post-mortems, continuous improvement, and the wider Backend Guild.
Requirements
- Strong backend engineering experience with exposure to large-scale web application architecture and real production constraints.
- Ability to transfer engineering skills quickly across technology stacks and comfort with similar technologies.
- Experience writing tests, setting up monitoring, handling incidents methodically, and conducting root cause analysis.
- Ownership mindset focused on tracking impact, identifying regressions, and improving systems proactively.
- Ability to collaborate in squad teams with Product Managers, Designers, and engineers across different stacks.
- Fluency in English.
Benefits
- Remote-friendly work for candidates living in or willing to relocate to Germany, France, Italy, Serbia, or Spain.
- Autonomous mission-based product or platform teams typically comprising 5 to 10 engineers.
- Access to Qonto’s Backend Guild for knowledge sharing, technical standards, and developer experience improvements.
- Access to Cursor or Copilot and other AI tools.
- Collaborative continuous-improvement practices using Kaizen and PDCA.
- Average hiring process duration of 20 working days.
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About Qonto
Qonto provides online business banking and finance tools for SMEs and freelancers in Europe, including accounts, cards, payments, spend management, invoicing, and bookkeeping integrations. It operates on subscription plans with add-on and usage-based fees, and serves 600,000+ customers across eight countries. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Paris, the company has been profitable since 2023 and remains privately held.