Backend Team Lead (Ruby) - remote friendly

Backend Team Lead (Ruby) - remote friendly

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Our mission

Creating the freedom for SMEs to succeed in business and beyond, by delivering Europe’s leading finance workspace. We combine business‑class tools (seamless invoicing, spend management, and pre‑accounting) with unwaveringly attentive 24/7 support, designed to help businesses breeze through all things finance.

Our journey

Founded by Alexandre and Steve in July 2017, Qonto has rapidly gained trust, serving over 600,000 customers. Thanks to our wonderful team of 1,600+ Qontoers, we also 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

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 55% international team members, 44% women, and 20% parents. Join us in building a workplace that celebrates diversity and individuality. Discover the steps we took to create a discrimination‑free hiring process.

Location

You can choose to work in Qonto as long as you're living in (or willing to relocate to) either Germany, France, Italy, Serbia, Portugal, or Spain.

Role overview

Join us as a Team Lead to craft polished user experiences, highly scalable APIs, and robust banking services, all to help create the finance solution all businesses love! As a Lead Backend, you will be part of a team of 180 highly skilled back‑end engineers across Europe. You'll contribute directly to our product and the growth of your team.

Drive a team

• Manage a team of 4‑6 Backend 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

Drive the delivery

• 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 objectivesEstablish and use the best engineering practices to ensure high quality

Be hands‑on

• 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

About Your Future Team

As a Backend Team Lead at Qonto, you'll be part of our Product Engineering department which consists of +500 talented professionals. This department is organized into cross‑functional teams (CFTs) across five domains.

Domains

• Customer Lifecycle – focusing on account management and compliance
• Business Account – enhancing payments and financial tools
• Systems & Monetization – optimizing integrations and pricing
• Financial Tools – supporting cash flow management and bookkeeping
• Regate by Qonto – a platform for accountants to help them manage company creation, invoicing, and pre‑accounting for their clients

Methodology – the Qonto Way

• 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 on one feature at a time.

About You

• 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 is a Must, and Go as well is a great bonus, 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.

At Qonto we understand that true diversity isn't just about ticking boxes on a hiring checklist. Apply regardless of the boxes you tick! Who knows? You may have the missing piece of the puzzle we've been searching for all along.

Perks

• Offices in Paris, Berlin, Milan, Barcelona, and Belgrade
• Competitive salary package
• Meal vouchers
• 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

Our hiring process

• Interviews with your Talent Acquisition Manager and future managers
• A remote or live exercise to demonstrate your skills and give you a taste of what working at Qonto could be like

Find more information about our interview process on our careers website. On average, our process lasts 20 working days and offers usually follow within 48 hours