Backend Team Lead

Summary

Join Qonto as a Backend Team Lead and contribute to crafting polished user experiences, highly scalable APIs, and robust banking services. As a Lead Backend, you will manage a team of 3 to 5 Software Engineers, provide regular feedback, foster professional growth, and build a collaborative team culture. You will also work with engineering, product, and design leads to define a vision and strategy, drive delivery to meet business objectives, and ensure high quality through best engineering practices. The role requires hands-on coding in Ruby, maintaining code quality, scaling the backend, and supporting a critical service used by thousands of users daily. Qonto offers a competitive salary, remote work policy, great health insurance, employee well-being initiatives, progressive parental policy, and monthly team events.

Requirements

• Management Experience: You have already had a first successful experience as a manager, demonstrating your ability to lead, develop, and retain talent
• Technical Expertise: You have strong experience as a software engineer, proficiency in Ruby or Python is a plus, and you have been exposed to architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications
• Leadership: You collaboratively lead the evolution of your team, setting clear goals and helping team members grow professionally
• Team player: You have excellent communication skills, which help you diffuse knowledge across teams and align people to work successfully on their projects
• Languages: You are fluent in English

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of 3 to 5 Software Engineers
• Provide regular feedback to your team members through 1-on-1s and half-yearly progress reviews
• Foster the professional and technical growth of your teammates through mentorship, pairing, and delegation
• Build a collaborative, inclusive, and supportive team culture and make Qonto shine
• 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 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 daily

Benefits

• Offices in Paris, Berlin, Milan, Barcelona, and Belgrade
• Tailor-made remote work policy depending on the job you apply for and where you live
• Competitive salary package
• A meal voucher
• Public transportation reimbursement (part or global)
• A great health insurance (depending on the country)
• Employee well-being initiatives: access to Moka Care to take care of your mental health and great offers for sports and wellness activities
• A progressive disability and parenthood policy (1 in 6 of Qonto employees is a parent!) and childcare benefits with selected partners
• Monthly team events