Principal Backend Engineer

🕒 August 28

🇫🇷 France – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Qonto

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501 - 1000 employees

💳 Fintech

🤝 B2B

🏦 Banking

💰 $500k Grant on 2022-10

Fintech • B2B • Banking

Qonto is the leading European business finance solution that simplifies everything from everyday banking and financing to bookkeeping and spend management. Founded in July 2017 by Alexandre Prot and Steve Anavi, Qonto aims to energize SMEs and freelancers so that they can achieve more. With over 300,000 companies using its services and a workforce of around 900 employees, it stands out in the financial services sector as an innovative fintech solution.

📋 Description

• Scale critical systems powering Qonto's 600,000+ customers in the Foundations domain • Map technical risks across core systems, including approximately 600,000 daily transactions, search indexing, and billing • Drive architectural work to prevent infrastructure bottlenecks • Own end-to-end, high-stakes technical programs spanning multiple teams • Collaborate with Legal, Risk, Compliance, and leadership • Identify future platform investments, including granular permissions and AI-native integrations • Translate strategic investments into technical roadmaps • Raise engineering standards through mentoring, coaching programs, documentation, and technical enablement • Connect company and customer needs to backend technical plans • Communicate technical plans clearly to engineers and executives • Identify priorities, propose roadmaps, and drive execution

🎯 Requirements

• Experience designing and scaling high-volume backend systems such as transactions, search/indexing, billing, or similar • Experience driving complex, multi-team, company-wide technical initiatives involving Legal, Risk, Compliance, and leadership • Ability to work autonomously in ambiguous environments, map ecosystems, surface risks early, and propose initiatives without waiting for direction • Experience raising engineering standards for groups of engineers through mentoring programs, documentation, or structured technical enablement • Use of AI tools to accelerate architecture, prototyping, and communication • Excitement about AI-native integrations • Ability to connect company and customer needs to concrete technical plans and communicate them clearly to engineers and executives

🏖️ Benefits

• Unlimited access to the best AI tools