Qonto

Senior/Staff - Backend Engineer - remote friendly

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5 years ago
Milan, ItalySenior / Staff+

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, deploy, and maintain services handling real financial transactions.
  • Co-own service architecture, resilience, and scalability using Domain-Driven Design principles.
  • Lead technical design discussions, anticipate risks, and mentor less experienced engineers.
  • Improve engineering processes by addressing flaky CI, running post-mortems, and sharing learnings.
  • Write tests, set up monitoring, handle incidents methodically, and perform root cause analysis.
  • Track post-release impact, identify regressions, and improve owned systems proactively.

Requirements

  • Strong backend engineering experience with exposure to large-scale web application architecture and real production constraints.
  • Ability to transfer quickly between technology stacks and work with similar backend technologies.
  • Quality-driven approach to testing, monitoring, incident handling, and root cause analysis.
  • Ownership mindset and ability to improve systems and processes independently.
  • Ability to collaborate in squad teams with Product Managers, Designers, Frontend engineers, and Mobile engineers.
  • Fluency in English.

Benefits

  • Remote-friendly work is available while living in or relocating to Germany, France, Italy, Serbia, or Spain.
  • Work in autonomous squads of 5 to 10 people with a clear project mission and full product-scope ownership.
  • Access to Cursor or Copilot and unlimited access to AI tools.
  • Opportunities for technical leadership, design leadership, mentoring, and collaboration with a 190-person backend engineering community.
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1,001-5,000 employees
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