Senior/Staff - Go Backend Engineer - remote friendly

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About the role

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🌏 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, or Spain.

Mission: Join us as a Backend Engineer to build the financial infrastructure that 600,000+ European SMEs depend on every day, from highly scalable APIs to robust banking services that handle real money, in real time, with zero room for mistakes.

• Our mission and customers: We are creating the freedom for SMEs to succeed by delivering Europe's leading finance workspace with banking at its core, augmented by financial tools. We are proud to be rated 4.7 on Trustpilot, https://www.trustpilot.com/review/qonto.com based on 60,000 reviews. Our culture https://qonto.com/en/careers/culture puts customer satisfaction at the core of what we do, as proven by our Net Promoter Score of 75 (more about our culture here https://medium.com/qonto-way/the-qonto-way-our-culture-is-our-strategy-90defd4895f9).
• Our journey: Founded in 2017 by Alexandre https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprot/ and Steve https://www.linkedin.com/in/steveanavi/, Qonto has grown to 1,700 Qontoers serving over 750,000 customers across 8 European countries. We have been profitable since 2023, and we are just getting started.
• Our beliefs: We hire for skills and potential. With 80+ nationalities, 45% women, of which 56% of women in our leadership team, diversity isn't a program; It's who we are. We've built a discrimination-free hiring process https://medium.com/qonto-way/a-recruiters-dilemma-confronting-bias-in-hiring-b78acce148eb because the best teams are built on merit.
• AI at Qonto: AI is deeply embedded in how we work (here https://medium.com/qonto-way/ai-at-qonto-vision-statement-725a7e2f659b) - Every Qontoer gets unlimited access to the best AI tools. We want people who experiment without waiting for permission, push AI beyond the obvious, know when to trust it, and when to question it.

The work

AS A BACKEND ENGINEER AT QONTO, YOU WILL

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain services handling real financial transactions, owning reliability in production, not just at merge time
• Co-own service architecture, resilience, and scalability with respect to Domain-Driven Design principles
• Grow in technical leadership: lead design discussions, anticipate risks, and mentor less experienced engineers
• Drive continuous improvement, from fixing flaky CI to running post-mortems and propagating learnings across the team
• WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT: OUR METHODOLOGY, THE QONTO WAY https://medium.com/qonto-way/tagged/the-qonto-way
• We value upfront technical design, team reviews, and smart slicing, quality drives the velocity our customers need
• Our org assigns one team lead per project across stacks, giving your team a clear mission and full autonomy on how it operates
• Our lean toolbox, Kaizen https://medium.com/qonto-way/qonto-way-strong-engineering-culture-prt1-kaizen-spirit-7e6e0a17c07e, PDCA, lets you monitor and drive continuous improvement collaboratively with your peers and manager
• Each engineer gets access to Cursor or Copilot, and we want people who use AI to raise the bar, not just to go faster

The company

Your future team

As a Backend Engineer at Qonto, you'll join one of our mission-based teams, typically made up of 5 to 10 engineers and led by a dedicated Engineering Manager.

You'll work alongside backend, web, iOS, and Android engineers, as well as Product Managers and Designers, joining either:

Your team owns a clear mission end-to-end. You'll contribute to discovery, make technical decisions, build and release solutions, monitor production performance, and steadily raise quality standards, fo

• A Product team, building and operating features used directly by customers.
• A Platform team, developing and maintaining the scalable foundations that help Product teams move faster.