over 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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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.