Job Description
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 300,000 customers and opened offices in Paris, Berlin, Milan, and Barcelona. Last summer, we joined forces with Penta, a market leader based in Berlin and Belgrade, forming a united team of 900+ Qontoers. We also made it to the Top 3 of LinkedIn Top Startups France!
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: Diversity brings success. We actively recruit people from a range of backgrounds, employ inclusive hiring techniques; and work with our external partners to continually increase and improve our DEI initiatives. As a result, we obtained a rating of 89/100 in 2022 for the annual Index of professional equality and are happy to say that 44% of our teams are women.
Join us as an 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 an Engineering Manager, you will be part of a team of 100 highly skilled back-end engineers from all over the world.You will work closely in cross-functional teams to shape our finance solutions. You will participate in the discussions on the direction of our banking product, manage how we will handle our ever-growing user base needs, and deliver high-quality products in a fast-paced environment.
As an Engineering Manager at Qonto, you will
Build your own team:• Manage a team of 5 to 8 Backend Engineers• Run 1o1s and quarterly progress reviews to provide regular feedback to your team members• Mentor, pair, and delegate work to foster the professional and technical growth of your teammates• Help build a collaborative, inclusive, and supportive team culture and make it shine• Run interviews to hire new team members
Drive the delivery:• Coordinate 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 help us meet business objectives• Ensure high quality by establishing and using the best engineering practices
Be hands-on:• Design, build, test, document, run, review and maintain code in Python, Golang or 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 on a daily basis
Our primary languages are Python, Golang and Ruby on the backend, EmberJS on the frontend, and Kotlin and Swift for our mobile applications. Our platform runs on a Kubernetes cluster hosted on AWS, with PostgreSQL as our database of choice, usingKafkafor our event-driven architecture and ELK for logging and auditing, among many other tools, services, and applications.
However, not mastering our stack is not an issue at all! A lot of Qontoers have learned Python, Go and/or Ruby since they joined.
As long as you are willing to learn, it doesn't matter if you've been using Java, Javascript/Typescript or Scala.
What you can expect
•Join Qonto, which iswinning SME banking in Europe. Qonto is on track to power one million SMEs in 2025• Work in afast-paced environmentwith a strong focus on quality•Managerial trainingover several weeks in-house by experts•Leverage our values and our cultureof continuous improvement to boost your impact as a leader•Share knowledgeamong the whole tech and product team (internal and external talk, weekly meetings, Tech Monthlies) and the community (Medium articles, meetups)
Get to know our working methodology, theQonto Way
• We highly value the analysis phase on software delivery placing a heavy emphasis on upfront
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