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Senior/Staff Backend Engineer - remote friendly

Senior/Staff Backend Engineer - remote friendly

Senior–Principal Remote Berlin, Germany Full-time Posted 2 months ago

About the role

Senior to Principal Backend Engineer at Qonto, based in Berlin with remote work available. Qonto is hiring for full-time work on backend services that support financial transactions and banking services for SMEs, with ownership of reliability, architecture, and production operations.

Work format

Remote friendly. Full-time role based in Berlin, Germany, with remote work available.

Skills and tools

Go
Ruby
Kubernetes
AWS
PostgreSQL
Kafka
ELK

What to prepare

Prepare a backend project example that shows production ownership and reliability work.
Review a system design example with scalability and resilience decisions.
Have a short walkthrough ready for monitoring, incidents, or root cause analysis you handled.

Responsibilities

Design, build, deploy, and maintain backend services for financial transactions.
Own reliability in production, not only before release.
Co-own service architecture, resilience, and scalability using Domain-Driven Design principles.
Lead design discussions, surface risks, and mentor less experienced engineers.
Improve delivery and operations by fixing flaky CI, running post-mortems, and sharing learnings.

Requirements

Backend engineering experience with large-scale web application architecture and real production constraints.
Experience with tests, monitoring, incident handling, and root cause analysis.
Ability to track impact after release and improve your scope without prompting.
Comfort working with product managers, designers, and engineers across stacks.
Fluent English.

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Qonto

Product

Paris-based fintech offering business accounts, invoicing and expense management for SMEs and freelancers, regulated as a licensed payment institution by the French ACPR.

Location: Paris, France
Team size: 201-500

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