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Backend Team Lead (Ruby) - remote friendly
QontoFranceRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 1 Dec 2025
About the role
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 doOwnership | Own your part, get things doneTeamwork | Make (team)work easyMastery | Continuously raise the barIntegrity | Always do what’s right, and respect people
Our beliefs: 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.
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 & 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
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 doOwnership | Own your part, get things doneTeamwork | Make (team)work easyMastery | Continuously raise the barIntegrity | Always do what’s right, and respect people
Our beliefs: 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.
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 & 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
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