Engineering Manager (Ruby) - remote friendly

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 & the growth of your team. As a Backend Team Lead at Qonto, you will 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 objectives
• Establish 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.

These domains include:

• 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.

What you can expect: our 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.

• 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

• A tailor-made and dynamic career track. An inclusive work environment. And so much more to help you succeed.
• 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

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!