Senior Backend Software Engineer (Ruby)- remote friendly

Published on September 07, 2023

Our mission is to create the most amazing banking experience for SMEs through technology, elegant design, and an outstanding sense of customer care. At Qonto, we believe that great services come from great thinkers, that’s why we strive to provide an environment that will allow you to feel comfortable and help you excel in your work (read more about our method). Alexandre and Steve launched Qonto in July 2017, and the team reached great achievements since then: - Market leader for online SME banking in Europe - 100,000 SME clients - Outstanding customer satisfaction (App Store | Google Play | TrustPilot) - Recognized as one of the best startups to work at (Wired | LinkedIn) - €136 million raised - International investors with a solid fintech experience - And 250+ happy Qontoers helping us building the bank of our dreams (just that!)

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: Alexandre and Steve launched 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. Last summer, 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 the Qonto Way here.

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!

🌏 Location: You can choose to work in a full-remote mode as long as you're within a +/- 3 hours CET timezone

⭐ Mission: Join us as a Senior Backend Engineer to craft polished user experiences, highly scalable APIs and robust banking services, all to help create the finance solution all businesses love.

Impact: As a Senior Backend Engineer, 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 also take part in 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 a Senior Backend Engineer at Qonto, you will

Design, develop and maintain our APIs for maximum resilience, scalability, robustness, and security
Build new applications and services to support our APIs and internal tools to help us move faster with confidence and quality
Play an active role in the architecture at Qonto to better support our growing user base and scaling needs
Maintain our high level of quality through TDD, documentation, pairing, and learning
Help scale our backend code base while maintaining our strong engineering culture
Share your knowledge and learnings through internal and external talks, & participate in the development of open-source tools

Our primary languages are Python, Golang and Ruby for backend, EmberJS for frontend, and Kotlin and Swift for our mobile apps. Our platform runs on a Kubernetes cluster hosted on AWS, with PostgreSQL as our database of choice. We're also using Kafka for our event-driven architecture and ELK for logging and auditing, among many other tools, services, and applications.

Many 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: our methodology, the Qonto Way
 
• We highly value the analysis phase on 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, dedicate themselves to one feature at a time.

🤝 Your future Manager

Mladen is our Backend Team Lead based in Serbia with 10 years of experience in Software Development in both consulting and product lead companies. He has been part of the team at Penta (acquired by Qonto in 2022) and since then he has also switched from Javascript to Ruby and has been thoroughly enjoying learning new languages and how to truly be tech-agnostic by focusing mostly on code quality.”

What can he bring to you and the team?
Mladen has experience being a team leader. He provides an environment for learning and growing. He also fosters and promotes a highly collaborative workplace, and embraces ambitious and proactive colleagues. You will have the opportunity to work in a team that values trust & teamwork.


🏅About You

Experience: You have strong experience as a software engineer and have had exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications. Plus, you have strong knowledge and experience in Python, Go, Ruby, or you're willing to learn.
Problem solver: You are a pragmatic and solution-oriented engineer, with an interest in solving problems and delivering value.
Impact maker: You want to help build an innovative product used by tens of thousands of users and leave your mark.
Quality-driven: You follow best practices regarding code quality, testing and code reviews.
Curiosity: You are a curious and open-minded engineer eager to learn.
Team player: You have good communication skills, are comfortable working in a team, and can easily work with non-technical colleagues.
Languages: You are fluent in English.

At 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? You may have the missing piece of the puzzle we've been searching for all along.
🎁 Perks

A laptop. An inclusive work environment. A tailor-made career track. And so much more to help you succeed…

- Monthly team events
- Tailor-made remote work policy depending on the job you apply for
- 28 days of paid leave
- Generali health insurance, Moka Care to take care of your mental health and gym access with Fitpass
- Meal allowance
- 100% public transportation reimbursement
- Career tracks and mobility opportunities that can match all expectations

💪 Our hiring 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

We will send you an interview guide so you can best prepare yourself.

On average our process lasts 20 working days and offers usually follow within 48 hours 🤞

Thank you for considering joining Qonto. We cannot wait to learn more about you!

One last thing. We recently raised 486M€ in our Series D to ensure we keep growing safely, despite the current economic environment looking a bit gloomy. We revealed our plans for the future here.

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