Senior / Staff Backend Engineer - remote friendly Lisboa

Overview

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 24/7 attentive support to help businesses manage their finances.

Our journey: Founded by Alexandre and Steve in July 2017, Qonto has rapidly gained trust, serving over 600, 000 customers. Thanks to our team of 1, 600+ Qontoers, we were named in 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: We are committed to fostering a welcoming environment where everyone can thrive. We evaluate applicants based on skills and potential, aiming for diversity with 55% 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 work in Qonto if you live in (or are willing to relocate to) Germany, France, Italy, Serbia, Portugal, or Spain.

Role: Join us as a Backend Engineer to craft polished user experiences, highly scalable APIs, and robust banking services to help create the finance solution all businesses love.

Responsibilities

As a Backend Engineer, you will be part of a team of 180 highly skilled
- end engineers from around the world. You will work in
- functional teams to shape our finance solutions, contribute to the direction of our banking product, manage growing user needs, and deliver
- quality products in a
- paced environment.

• Design, develop, deploy and maintain new and existing applications to reach the team’s goals and meet stakeholders’ needs
• Produce and ship high-quality,
  - documented code
• Co-own our services architecture, resilience, scalability and robustness, with respect to Domain-Driven Design principles
• Grow on technical leadership and mentorship of other engineers

Our primary languages are Go and Ruby for backend, Ember
JS for frontend, and Kotlin and Swift for our mobile apps. Our platform runs on a Kubernetes cluster hosted on AWS, with Postgre
SQL as our database of choice. We also use Kafka for
- driven architecture and ELK for logging and auditing, among many other tools and services.

What you can expect

• We highly value the analysis phase of software delivery, emphasizing upfront technical designs, team reviews, and smart slicing. You can expect to focus on quality, which drives the velocity our customers need.

• Success comes from time, support, and autonomy to improve yourself, our systems and processes. Our lean toolbox enables you to monitor improvements (Kaizen, PDCA) in a collaborative way with peers and managers.

• Engineers work in
- functional teams, dedicating themselves to one feature at a time.

• We value efficiency and productivity and provide engineers with licenses for Cursor or Copilot to focus on coding innovative solutions.

Your future team

As a Backend Engineer at Qonto, you’ll join a team of 350-strong Product Engineering department, organized into
- functional teams across four domains:

• 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, providing collaborative accounting solutions for firms through automated
  - accounting and invoice processing

You'll work in a CFT of 4-6 backend engineers, owning your product scope and collaborating with mobile, frontend teams, and product managers to deliver impactful solutions.

About you

• Experience: Solid experience working on
- facing products and exposure to architectural patterns of large,
- scale web applications

• Problem solver: Pragmatic and
- driven, focused on delivering value to customers

• Impact maker: Eager to help build an innovative product used by tens of thousands of users

• Quality-driven: Follow best practices regarding code quality, testing, and reviews

• Curiosity: Eager to learn

• Team player: Good communication and ability to work with
- technical colleagues

• Languages: Fluent in English

• Note: This section preserves original language; no translation is applied.

Perks

A
- made and dynamic career track. An inclusive work environment. And more to help you succeed.

• The possibility to work remotely from Portugal
• Competitive salary package
• A great health insurance
• A remote work budget (50 euros per month)
• A laptop and IT equipment
• Employee
  - being initiatives: access to Moka Care for mental health and wellness offers
• Monthly team events

Our hiring process

• Interviews with your Talent Acquisition Manager and future managers
• A remote or live exercise to demonstrate your skills
• Find more information on our careers website
• On average, our process lasts 20 working days, and offers usually follow within 48 hours

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