Backend Team Lead - remote friendly Lisboa

Backend Team Lead - remote friendly
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Our mission? Creating the freedom for SMEs to succeed in business and beyond, by delivering Europe’s leading finance workspace. We combine
- class tools (seamless invoicing, spend management, and
- accounting) with unwaveringly attentive 24/7 support, designed to help businesses breeze through all things finance.

Our journey: Founded by Alexandre and Steve in July 2017, Qonto has rapidly gained trust, serving over 500, 000 customers. Thanks to our wonderful team of 1, 600+ Qontoers, we also made it to the Linked
In Top Companies French ranking!

Our values:

Customer focus | Prioritize customers in everything you do

Ownership | Own your part, get things done

Teamwork | Make (team)work easy

Mastery | Continuously raise the bar

Integrity | Always do what’s right, and respect people

Our beliefs: At Qonto, we're committed to fostering a welcoming environment where everyone can thrive. We prioritize evaluating applicants based solely on skills and potential, ensuring diversity with 50% international team members, 44% women, and 20% parents. Join us in building a workplace that celebrates diversity and individuality.

Discover the steps we took to create a
- free hiring process.

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, Portugal, or Spain.

Join us as a Backend Team Lead to craft polished user experiences, highly scalable APIs, and robust banking services, all to help create the finance solution all businesses love!

As a Lead Backend, you will be part of a team of 120 highly skilled
- end engineers across Europe. You'll contribute directly to our product & the growth of your team.

As a Backend Team Lead at Qonto, you will

Drive a team:

• Manage a team of 3 to 5 Software Engineers
• Provide regular feedback to your team members through 1-on-1s and
  - yearly progress reviews
• Foster the professional and technical growth of your teammates through mentorship, pairing, and delegation
• Build a collaborative, inclusive, and supportive team culture and make Qonto shine
• Conduct interviews to hire new team members
  
  

• Work with engineering, product and design leads to define a vision and strategy for your
  - functional team
• Drive the delivery of your
  - functional team to meet business objectives
• Establish and use the best engineering practices to ensure high quality
  
  

• Design, build, test, document, run, review, and maintain code in Ruby
• Maintain our high level of quality through strong testing methodologies, documentation, pairing, and learning,
• Help scale our backend code base while maintaining our strong engineering culture
• Support a critical service used by tens of thousands of users daily
  
  

• Customer Lifecycle, focusing on account management and compliance,
• Business Account, enhancing payments and financial tools,
• Systems & Monetization, optimizing integrations and pricing,
• Financial Tools, supporting cash flow management and bookkeeping.
• Regate by Qonto, a platform for accountants to help them manage company creation, invoicing, and
  - accounting for their clients.
  
  

• We highly value the analysis phase of software delivery. We're putting a heavy emphasis on upfront technical designs, team reviews, and smart slicing. You can expect to focus on quality, which we believe drives the velocity our customers need.
• We think success comes from a space where you're given time, support, and autonomy to improve yourself, our systems and our processes. Our lean toolbox enables you to monitor your constant improvements (Kaizen, PDCA) in a collaborative way with your peers and manager.
• Our engineers, working in
  - functional teams, focus on one feature at a time.
  
  

• Management Experience: You have already had a first successful experience as a manager, demonstrating your ability to lead, develop, and retain talent.
• Technical Expertise: You have strong experience as a software engineer, proficiency in Ruby or Python is a plus, and you have been exposed to architectural patterns of large,
  - scale web applications
• Leadership: You collaboratively lead the evolution of your team, setting clear goals and helping team members grow professionally.
• Team player: You have excellent communication skills, which help you diffuse knowledge across teams and align people to work successfully on their projects.
• Languages: You are fluent in English.
  
  

• Offices in Paris, Berlin, Milan, Barcelona, and Belgrade;
• Tailor-made remote work policy depending on the job you apply for and where you live;
• Competitive salary package;
• A meal voucher;
• Public transportation reimbursement (part or global);
• A great health insurance (depending on the country);
• Employee
  - being initiatives: access to Moka Care to take care of your mental health and great offers for sports and wellness activities;
• A progressive disability and parenthood policy (1 in 6 of Qonto employees is a parent!) and childcare benefits with selected partners;
• Monthly team events.
  
  

• Interviews with your Talent Acquisition Manager and future managers
• A remote exercise to demonstrate your skills and give you a taste of what working at Qonto could be like