Frontend Team Lead

Summary

Join Qonto as a Frontend Team Lead and help drive the React migration while managing a high-performing team of frontend engineers. You will manage a team of 5 engineers, focusing on people management, technical leadership, and delivery. The role involves leading the React migration from Ember.js, ensuring on-time and high-quality project delivery, and fostering a collaborative team culture. You will also contribute to improving the Web team's overall operating system and participate in activities like writing blog articles or speaking at events. This position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant technical impact during a challenging and exciting time of company growth. The role requires strong people management, delivery excellence, React expertise, AI openness, and stakeholder management skills.

Requirements

• People Management Experience: You already have meaningful experience as a team manager, or have successfully tackled challenges that required people skills. You understand how to balance hands-on technical work with team leadership
• Delivery Excellence: You have a proven track record of driving team delivery to ensure quality is shipped on time and on well-scoped projects. You understand how to balance speed with quality and can navigate tights deadlines while maintaining high standards
• React Expertise: Strong hands-on experience with React is essential for leading the migration and mentoring your team. You have at least four years of experience in software engineering using frontend JavaScript frameworks (React, Vue, Angular…). You don't need prior experience with Ember
• AI Openness: Familiarity with or enthusiasm for GenAI tools and their application in software development. You're excited about integrating AI into development workflows
• Stakeholder Management: You excel at cross-team collaboration and can effectively manage relationships with Product, Backend, and Mobile teams in a fast-paced environment, particularly in complex monetization contexts
• Continuous improvement mindset: You put energy into getting better at your craft every day and drive improvements within your team and the broader organization

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of 5 Frontend Engineers, spending approximately 80% of your time on management activities and 20% on coding
• Foster the professional and technical growth of your teammates through mentorship, pairing, and delegation
• Provide regular feedback to your team members through 1o1s and regular progress reviews
• Build a collaborative, inclusive, and supportive team culture
• Conduct interviews to hire new team members
• Lead the React migration initiative with a challenging deadline, ensuring smooth transition from Ember.js
• Drive the delivery of your Frontend team to ensure that quality is shipped on time on well-scoped projects in order to meet business objectives
• Embrace and promote GenAI tools within your team to enhance productivity and development workflows
• Manage stakeholder relationships across Product, Backend, and Mobile teams within your CFT, particularly focusing on complex monetization features
• Establish and use engineering best practices to ensure high quality
• Contribute to improving the Web team's overall operating system
• You will also contribute to making Qonto shine by writing blog articles or speaking at events

Benefits

• Offices in Paris, Berlin, Milan, Barcelona, and Belgrade
• 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