Our Mission
Making day-to-day banking easier for SMEs and freelancers with an online business account combined with invoicing, bookkeeping and spend management tools. Qonto has become the leader in its market, thanks to its innovative product, highly reactive 24/7 customer support, and clear pricing.
Our Journey
Founded by Alexandre and Steve in July 2017, Qonto has rapidly gained trust, serving over 400,000 customers and has made it to the LinkedIn Top Companies French ranking.
Our Values
- Customer focus | Prioritize customers in everything you do.
- Ownership | Own your part, get things done
- Teamwork | Make (team)work easy
- Mastery | Continuously raise the bar.
- Integrity | Always do what’s right, and respect people.
Our Beliefs
At Qonto, we're committed to fostering a welcoming environment where everyone can thrive. We prioritize evaluating applicants based solely on skills and potential, ensuring diversity with 49% international team members, 44% women, and 20% parents.
Our Career Track
At Qonto, we value your unique skills, offering personalized career tracks and expertise levels from 1 to 9 that celebrate your impact, without conventional labels like 'senior' or 'director'. You can choose to work in a full-remote mode as long as you're within a +3 hours CET timezone.
Mission
Join us as a Python Backend Engineer to craft polished user experiences, highly scalable APIs, and robust banking services to help create the finance solution all businesses love.
Impact
As a Python Backend Engineer, you will be at the heart of our big project of migrating part of our Ruby codebase to Python, and you will be actively involved in shaping our Python expertise at Qonto.
- Build the best developer experience: help set up our tech stack, craft libraries, and write documentation in Python.
- Mentor engineers, and contribute on scaling our Python knowledge throughout our Backend team
- Produce and ship high-quality, well-documented code
- Build a great product by shipping efficient features
Our Primary Languages
Python, Go, and Ruby for backend, EmberJS 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
- We highly value the analysis phase on software delivery.
- We think success comes from a space where you're given time, support, and autonomy to improve yourself, our systems and our processes.
- Our engineers, working in cross-functional teams, dedicate themselves to one feature at a time.
Your Future Department Head
As Head of Backend, Gabriel focuses on instilling ownership, autonomy, and an initiative-driven mindset within his teams.
- Gabriel brings extensive experience in team management and a robust product mindset.
- Experience: You have strong experience as a software engineer and have had exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications in Python;
- 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.
Perks
- Offices in every country to welcome you anytime you want (France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Serbia);
- Tailor-made remote work policy depending on the job you apply for;
- Competitive salary package;
- Ameal 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 parenthood policy as part of our commitment to the Parental Act (1 in 6 of Qonto employees is a parent!) and childcare benefits with selected partners;
- Monthly team events.
Our Hiring Process
Interviews with your Talent Acquisition Manager and future managers, a remote exercise to demonstrate your skills and give you a taste of what working at Qonto could be like. On average our process lasts 20 working days and offers usually follow within 48 hours.
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