qonto - Senior/Staff - Go Backend Engineer - remote friendly
Requirements
• Technical expertise: Strong backend engineering experience with exposure to large-scale web application architecture and real production constraints • Stack fluency: You don't need to know our exact stack, but you transfer fast and are comfortable with similar technologies • Quality-driven: You write tests, set up monitoring, handle incidents methodically, and do root cause analysis • Ownership mindset: You track impact after release, flag regressions, and improve what's in your scope without being asked • Team player: You are comfortable working in squad teams with PMs, Designers, and other stacks, and you are fluent in English • ➡️ What we can offer you • Our methodology, the Qonto Way https://medium.com/qonto-way/tagged/the-qonto-way: We value upfront technical design, team reviews, and smart slicing. Quality drives the velocity our customers need • Autonomy: Our org assigns one team lead per project across stacks, giving your team a clear mission and full autonomy on how it operates • Continuous improvement: Our lean toolbox, Kaizen https://medium.com/qonto-way/qonto-way-strong-engineering-culture-prt1-kaizen-spirit-7e6e0a17c07e, PDCA, lets you monitor and drive improvement collaboratively with your peers and manager • AI tooling: Each engineer gets access to Cursor or Copilot, and we want people who use AI to raise the bar, not just to go faster • Our stack: Go and Ruby are our primary languages. Our platform runs on a Kubernetes cluster hosted on AWS, with PostgreSQL as our database of choice. We also use Kafka for event-driven architecture and ELK for logging and auditing, among many other tools and services • 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. • [HIRING PROCESS DURATION] On average, our hiring process lasts 20 working days. More information on our candidate journey here https://qonto.com/en/careers/candidate-journey • [DATA RETENTION] By applying, you agree that Qonto processes your personal data to assess your application. Your data is kept for up to 2 years in our candidate pool. Read our Privacy Notice https://qonto.com/en/legal-documents/privacy-notice for full details.
Responsibilities
• Design, build, deploy, and maintain services handling real financial transactions, owning reliability in production, not just at merge time • Co-own service architecture, resilience, and scalability with respect to Domain-Driven Design principles • Grow in technical leadership: lead design discussions, anticipate risks, and mentor less experienced engineers • Drive continuous improvement, from fixing flaky CI to running post-mortems and propagating learnings across the team • Contribute to discovery, make technical decisions, monitor production performance, and steadily raise quality standards
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