Backend Software Engineer

About Qonto

The mission is to create the most amazing banking experience for SMEs through technology, elegant design, and an outstanding sense of customer care. At Qonto, they believe that great services come from great thinkers, that’s why they strive to provide an environment that will allow you to feel comfortable and help you excel in your work (read more about their method).

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Position

As part of the tech team, you will join a crew of experienced engineers working on crafting the best possible user experience and building a highly scalable code base. Our stacks are Ruby and Go for the backend; EmberJS for the frontend; Kotlin and Swift for the mobile. Our tools/stack include Kafka, Kubernetes, ELK, AWS services and all the good stuffs you could think of!

As a Software Backend Engineer, you will work on improving and scaling the most sensitive piece of Qonto infrastructure. You will ensure the safety and robustness of systems handling hundreds of thousands of complex requests a day. You will also work on shipping innovative new banking features for an exponentially growing user base.

Responsibilities:

• Architect and develop the services: You will enrich our APIs through maximum resilience
• Develop the architecture: You will improve microservices architecture of our API
• Supervise the technical aspect: You will be responsible for the technical aspect of our backend and participate in complex conception issues
• Maintain a high level of quality: You will implement various test suites to ensure the quality of the system 
• Improve technical solution: You will make your work very scalable, strongly robust and highly secured
• Consolidate data: You will Integrate data coming from different sources (including banking APIs and SaaS APIs)
• Share knowledge: You are willing to participate in the development of our open-source and internal tools

Your qualification

• Experience: You have 5+ years experience as a software engineer and you had exposure to architectural patterns of a large, high-scale web applications and micro-services
• Mastery: You have a strong knowledge and experience in Go, Ruby, Java, Python, C or Scala
• Problem solver: You are pragmatic and solution-oriented
• Make an impact: You want to build an innovative product to be used by thousands of users
• Best Practices: You work in an organized manner with test coverage, and other best practices
• Curiosity: You are a curious and open-minded developer
• Team player: You have good communication skills and you know how to work with a team
• Languages: You are fluent in English. French is a plus

What we offer

• You got it: helping you succeed is our #1 priority. We have put together several perks to make your life easier and more will unlock as Qonto grows further
• Monthly team events, and yearly offsite (Barcelona, Sicily… what’s next?)
• Free coffee, snacks in the kitchen and a budget allocated to managers for small team events
• The latest in Apple’s equipment
• 1 day of remote work per week
• 5 to 10 days off in addition to the legal 25 days
• A Qonto Card that you can use as for lunch
• Access to thousands of gyms and activities for 10-30€ a month, through our partnership with Gymlib
• Relocation package and visa sponsorship for international talents (we have 25+ nationalities based in Paris!)