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Principal Backend Engineer

1 month, 1 week ago
France, Spain, Germany, Italy
Full-time
Lead
Backend Engineer
Software Development
Prototyping
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Qonto

Qonto

Qonto provides a comprehensive financial management solution for small and medium-sized enterprises and freelancers, offering services such as business accounts, invoicing, bookkeeping, expense management, and financing, all supported by dedicated cust...

Banks
1K-5K
Founded 2016
$703M raised
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Description

  • Anticipate technical risks and design architecture to support growing transaction, search, indexing, and billing volumes.
  • Lead end-to-end, high-impact technical programs across multiple engineering and business teams.
  • Define technical investment areas and translate platform opportunities into roadmaps.
  • Mentor and enable groups of engineers through coaching, documentation, and structured programs.
  • Connect business and customer needs to backend strategy and communicate plans to engineers and executives.
  • Collaborate with Legal, Risk, Compliance, and leadership on initiatives with significant business impact.

Requirements

  • Experience designing and scaling high-volume backend systems such as transactions, search, indexing, billing, or similar.
  • Experience leading complex, multi-team technical initiatives tied to business outcomes.
  • Ability to work autonomously in ambiguous environments, identify risks, and propose initiatives.
  • Demonstrated ability to raise engineering standards through mentoring, documentation, or technical enablement.
  • Experience using AI tools for architecture, prototyping, and communication.
  • Interest in AI-native integrations and their potential impact on backend platforms.

Benefits

  • Ownership of technical direction and roadmap for a large, business-critical engineering domain.
  • Opportunity to work with approximately 110 backend engineers across multiple platform areas.
  • Exposure to complex scale challenges, including nearly 1 billion total transactions and high-volume search activity.
  • Company-wide scope spanning transactions, permissions, monetization, integrations, and automation.
  • Access to leading AI tools for every employee.
  • Diverse, discrimination-free hiring environment with employees representing 80+ nationalities.
  • Hiring process averaging 20 working days.

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