Senior/Staff Backend Engineer (Golang) - remote friendly

🌏 Location: You can choose to work in Qonto as long as you're living in (or willing to relocate to) either Germany, France, Italy, Serbia, Portugal, or Spain.   Join us as a Backend Engineer to craft polished user experiences, highly scalable APIs and robust banking services, all to help create the finance solution all businesses love.   As a Backend Engineer, you will be part of a team of 180 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 Backend Engineer at Qonto, you will   • Design, develop, deploy and maintain new and existing applications to reach the team’s goals and to meet the stakeholders’ needs Produce and ship high-quality, well-documented code • Co-own our services architecture, resilience, scalability and robustness, with respect to Domain-Driven Design principles • Grow on technical leadership & mentorship of other engineers   Our primary languages are Go and Ruby for backend, React.js 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.   🤔 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. • We value the efficiency and productivity of our engineers: that’s why we provide each of our engineers with licenses for Cursor or Copilot, enabling them to focus on what they do best – coding innovative solutions   🤝 Your future team   As a Backend Engineer at Qonto, you'll join a team 450-strong Product Engineering department, organized into cross-functional teams (CFTs) across five domains: • 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, providing collaborative accounting solutions for accounting firms through automated pre-accounting, invoice processing, and seamless integration with major accounting software.   You'll work in a CFT of 6-8 backend engineers, owning your product scope and collaborating closely with mobile, frontend teams, and product managers to deliver impactful solutions.   🏅About You   • Technical Expertise: You have strong experience as a software engineer, experience in Golang, and you have been exposed to architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications. • Problem solver: You are a pragmatic and product-driven engineer, with an interest in solving problems and delivering value to customers; • 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.