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Our mission? Creating the finance solution that energizes SMEs and freelancers, so they can achieve more. We simplify everything from everyday banking to bookkeeping and spend management. At Qonto, we’re passionate about creating the best product, so if you’re looking for an ambitious team that’s revolutionizing an old-fashioned industry, get in touch!
Our journey: AlexandreandStevelaunched Qonto in July 2017. Since then, the team has earned the trust of more than 400,000 customers and opened offices in Paris, Berlin, Milan, and Barcelona. In the summer of 2022, we joined forces with Penta, a market leader based in Berlin and Belgrade, forming a united team of 1,300 Qontoers. We also made it to the LinkedIn Top Companies French ranking!
Our values:Ambition| We tackle big challenges. No matter what.Teamwork| We create momentum by working together, at the same speed.Mastery| We pursue excellence through continuous learning. We face challenges with humility. Every day.Integrity| We're open. We're honest. And we earn the trust of our clients and each other.
You can find out more about theQonto Wayhere.
Our beliefs: Our goal at Qonto is to create a warm and welcoming environment where individuals from all walks of life can truly thrive. We've gone above and beyond to ensure that every applicant is evaluated solely based on their skills and potential, rather than their gender, ethnicity, age, (dis)ability, or any other irrelevant factor. Our team consists of 49% international individuals, with 44% women and 20% parents. With this diversity, we are a powerful force! Join us in our mission to build a workplace that celebrates diversity and embraces individuality.Discover the steps we took to create a discrimination-free hiring process.
Our career track: At Qonto, we cherish your unique skills, breaking away from conventional labels like "senior" or "director," and instead, offering personalized career tracks and expertise levels from 1 to 9 that truly celebrate your impact!
As a Head of Backend at Qonto
Reporting to the BE Director, you will lead and grow one of our backend teams to build the Qonto product in the payment system space. Our highly-skilled, multi-cultural BE team of ~120 engineers is working closely in cross-functional teams and collaborates tightly with the Product team to deliver a top-quality product at a fast pace.
As a Head of Backend, you will:
• Drive delivery of product features and improvements with a high level of quality and on time.• Manage the Payment System team of 30+ engineers and 5 managers.• Coach your team leaders and engineers to maintain quality and velocity while the team grows and complexity increases.• Spread a culture of continuous improvement: learn how to write better code to ship features faster.• Foster collaboration with partner teams such as Product, Data, and Frontend (Web + Mobile) and with third parties.
Tech StackOur primary languages arePython,GoandRubyon the backend,EmberJSon the frontend, andKotlinandSwiftfor our mobile applications. The Payment system team uses mostly Go.
Our platform runs on aKubernetescluster hosted onAWS, withPostgreSQLas our database of choice, usingKafkafor our event-driven architecture andELKfor logging and auditing, among many other tools, services, and applications.
What you can expect• Oversee an expert team that is managing billions of euros in transactions, fostering excellence at a big scale• Leverage our values and our culture of continuous improvement to boost your impact as a leader.• We're putting a heavy emphasis on upfront technical designs, team reviews, and smart slicing. You can expect tofocus on quality, which we believedrives the velocityour 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. • Ourlean toolboxenables you to monitor your constant improvements (Kaizen, PDCA) collaborativelywith your peers and manager.
What you could work onAs part of our Engineering department, you will oversee several teams of backend engineers. Each of these teams participates in a cross-functional team that handles part of our product. A few examples of these teams are:
Cards payment/lifecycle: Build and sell cards that are top of wallet for all company expenses. Local Payment: Localize business banking by d
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