Qonto is hiring a
Backend Team Lead

Summary

The job is for a Backend Team Lead at Qonto, responsible for managing a team, driving delivery, and being hands-on in coding. The role is based in Germany, France, Italy, Serbia, Portugal, or Spain.

Requirements

• Leadership: You collaboratively lead the evolution of your team
• Team player: You have excellent communication skills, which help you diffuse knowledge across teams and align people to work successfully on their projects
• Experience: You have strong experience as a software engineer and have had exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications
• Languages: You are fluent in English

Responsibilities

• Build your own team: Manage a team of 3 to 5 Backend Engineers
• Provide regular feedback to your team members through 1-on-1s and quarterly progress reviews
• Foster the professional and technical growth of your teammates through mentorship, pairing, and delegation
• Build a collaborative, inclusive, and supportive team culture
• Conduct interviews to hire new team members
• Work 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 meet business objectives
• Establish and use the best engineering practices to ensure high quality
• Design, build, test, document, run, review and maintain code in Golang, Python, or Ruby

Benefits

• We highly value the analysis phase of 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, focus one feature at a time