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 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 600, 000 customers. Thanks to our team of 1, 600+ Qontoers, we also made it to the Linked
In Top Companies French ranking!

Our values: Customer focus | Ownership | Teamwork | Mastery | Integrity

Our beliefs: We are committed to fostering a welcoming environment where everyone can thrive and to evaluating applicants based on skills and potential. We strive for diversity with 55% international team members, 44% women, and 20% parents.

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

Role and Responsibilities

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

Your typical responsibilities

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

Technology and Way of Working

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.

What you can expect: the Qonto Way

• We value upfront technical design, team reviews, and smart slicing to focus on quality and velocity
• You will have time, support, and autonomy to improve yourself, our systems, and processes; Kaizen and PDCA are used in a collaborative way
• Engineers work in
  - functional teams, focusing on one feature at a time
• We provide licenses for Cursor or Copilot to boost productivity and coding of innovative solutions

Your future team

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

• Customer Lifecycle – 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 – collaborative accounting solutions for accounting firms

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

About You

• Experience: solid experience in working on
  - facing products and exposure to architectural patterns of large,
  - scale web applications
• Problem solver: pragmatic and
  - driven; delivering value to customers
• Impact maker: eager to help build an innovative product used by tens of thousands of users
• Quality-driven: follows best practices for code quality, testing, and reviews
• Curiosity: eager to learn
• Team player: good communicator, comfortable with
  - technical colleagues
• Languages: fluent in English

Note: We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds. Apply regardless of the boxes you tick.

Perks

• A
  - made and dynamic career track; inclusive work environment
• Remote work options (Portugal)
• Competitive salary package
• Great health insurance
• Remote work budget
• Laptop and IT equipment
• Employee
  - being: Moka Care for mental health and wellness offers
• Monthly team events

Our hiring process

• Interviews with Talent Acquisition Manager and future managers
• Remote skills exercise to demonstrate your capabilities
• Careers website for more information
• Average process lasts 20 working days; offers typically within 48 hours

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