Backend Team Lead, Qonto
The finance solution that energizes SMEs and freelancers.
Job no longer available
The finance solution that energizes SMEs and freelancers.
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create the finance solution that energises SMEs and freelancers.
Role
Who you are
- 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, high-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
What the job involves
- Join us as a Backend Engineering Manager 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 180 highly skilled back-end engineers across Europe. You'll contribute directly to our product & the growth of your team
- • Manage a team of 8 Software Engineers
- Provide regular feedback to your team members through 1-on-1s and half-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 cross-functional team
- Drive the delivery of your cross-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
- As a Backend Team Lead at Qonto, you'll be part of our Product Engineering department which consists of +450 talented professionals. This department is organized into cross-functional teams (CFTs) across five domains
- These domains include:
- 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 pre-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 cross-functional teams, focus on one feature at a time
Application process
- 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
- On average our process lasts 20 working days and offers usually follow within 48 hours
Our take
Since its 2016 foundation, Qonto has grown into one of Europe’s most high profile fintech startups. It offers payment services and bookkeeping to SMEs and freelancers, in return for a monthly subscription.
Qonto’s rapid growth has seen it expand its footprint from France into Spain, Germany, and Italy. The company is capitalising on the digitisation of the financial services industry and has leveraged close business and product partnerships with other major fintech startups like Stripe, October, and PayFit, to continue improving its offerings.
The company's value has soared well into the billions and, on top of this, in 2022, the company completed the fastest-to-date €5 million fundraise on Crowdcube. Moving forward, Qonto appears to be working on building up its presence in newer territories. This includes the integration of Penta, a digital business banking provider for SMEs and freelancers in Germany, that will now operate as "Penta by Qonto".
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2022
$5.9m
LATE VC
Jan 2022
$564.8m
SERIES D
Total funding: $728.4m
Company benefits
- Tailor-made remote policy (from hybrid to full-remote)
- Lunch Card
- Dynamic career tracks
- Employee well-being initiatives
Company HQ
Saint-Georges, Paris, France
Leadership
Steve Anavi
(President)Prior to co-founding Qonto, they co-founded Smok.io (acquired by a Fortune 500), led operations at Groupon and worked at Deloitte Consulting.
Alexandre Prot
(CEO)Co-founded Smok.io along with Steve Anavi. Also co-founded digital consulting company Smartven.
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