h3(OUR MISSION AND CUSTOMERS) /h3 pWe are creating the freedom for SMEs to succeed by delivering Europe's leading finance workspace with banking at its core, augmented by financial tools. /p pOur culture puts customer satisfaction at the core of what we do, as proven by our Net Promoter Score of 75 (more about our culture here). /p h3(OUR JOURNEY) /h3 pFounded in 2016 and launched in 2017 by Alexandre and Steve, Qonto has grown to 1,700 Qontoers serving over 750,000 customers across 8 European countries. With 80+ nationalities, 45% women, of which 56% of women in our leadership team, diversity isn't a program; It's who we are. /p pWe've built a discrimination-free hiring process because the best teams are built on merit. /p h3(AI AT QONTO) /h3 pAI is deeply embedded in how we work (here)
- Every Qontoer gets unlimited access to the best AI tools. We want people who experiment without waiting for permission, push AI beyond the obvious, know when to trust it, and when to question it. /p h3Location: /h3 pYou can choose to work in Qonto as long as you're living in (or willing to relocate to) either Germany, France, Italy, Serbia, or Spain. /p pJoin us as bSenior Backend Engineer /b to build the financial infrastructure that 750,000+ European SMEs depend on every day, from highly scalable APIs to robust banking services that handle real money, in real time, with zero room for mistakes. /p pYou will join one of our mission-based teams of 5 to 10 engineers, led by a dedicated Engineering Manager. You will work alongside backend, web, iOS, and Android engineers, as well as Product Managers and Designers,



in either a Product team (building features used directly by customers) or a Platform team (developing the scalable foundations that help Product teams move faster). Your team owns a clear mission end-to-end, following our "you build it, you own it" approach, and you will stay connected to the wider Backend community through our Backend Guild. /p h3What You'll Do /h3 ul liDesign, build, deploy, and maintain services handling real financial transactions, owning reliability in production, not just at merge time /li liCo-own service architecture, resilience, and scalability with respect to Domain-Driven Design principles /li liGrow in technical leadership: lead design discussions, anticipate risks, and mentor less experienced engineers /li liDrive continuous improvement, from fixing flaky CI to running post-mortems and propagating learnings across the team /li liContribute to discovery, make technical decisions, monitor production performance, and steadily raise quality standards /li /ul h3What We're Looking For /h3 ul liTechnical expertise: Strong backend engineering experience with exposure to large-scale web application architecture and real production constraints /li liStack fluency: You don't need to know our exact stack,



but you transfer fast and are comfortable with similar technologies /li liQuality-driven: You write tests, set up monitoring, handle incidents methodically, and do root cause analysis /li liOwnership mindset: You are comfortable working in squad teams with PMs, Designers, and other stacks, and you are fluent in English /li /ul h3What We Can Offer You /h3 ul liOur methodology, the Qonto Way: We value upfront technical design, team reviews, and smart slicing. Quality drives the velocity our customers need /li liAutonomy: Our org assigns one team lead per project across stacks, giving your team a clear mission and full autonomy on how it operates /li liContinuous improvement: Our lean toolbox, Kaizen, PDCA, lets you monitor and drive improvement collaboratively with your peers and manager /li liAI tooling: Each engineer gets access to Cursor or Copilot, and we want people who use AI to raise the bar, not just to go faster /li liOur stack: Go and Ruby are our primary languages. Our platform runs on a Kubernetes cluster hosted on AWS, with PostgreSQL as our database of choice. We also use Kafka for event-driven architecture and ELK for logging and auditing, among many other tools and services /li /ul h3(DIVERSITY) /h3 pAt Qonto, we understand that true diversity isn’t just about ticking boxes on a hiring checklist. Apply regardless of the boxes you tick
- who knows? More information on our candidate journey here /p h3(DATA RETENTION) /h3 pBy applying, you agree that Qonto processes your personal data to assess your application. Your data is kept for up to 2 years in our candidate pool.

📌 Staff Backend Engineer (Lombardia)
🏢 Qonto
📍 Lombardia