Backend Engineer - Internship (6 months)

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 500,000 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 do

Ownership | Own your part, get things done

Teamwork | Make (team)work easy

Mastery | Continuously raise the bar

Integrity | 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 50% 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.

❗We are currently looking for our next end-of-study interns (Bac +5) based in France, to work from our office located in Paris.

The Backend engineering team at Qonto currently has over 170 highly skilled engineers, from all over the world, working closely in cross-functional teams to shape our finance solutions. Each backend developer is empowered to challenge and influence the direction of the features they are working on.

👩‍💻🧑‍💻 As a Backend Engineer Intern at Qonto, you will:

🧠 Join a cross-functional team and build innovative financial features such as: providing a blazing fast and reliable card authorization service, innovative transfer solutions, delightful onboarding experience, state-of-the-art payment gateway, etc

🎙 Participate in the discussions on the strategy & vision for our product by being fully involved and integrated into our cross-functional organization (Tech, Product & Design)

⚙️ Work in a top-notch environment, where our apps are thoroughly tested, continuously deployed, and closely monitored

🤝 Learn and grow: by getting continuous feedback to improve your skills (both technical and on your ways of working). You will partner closely with a dedicated Backend engineer who will teach you and guide you throughout the internship. You will learn to read, write, and review production-ready Golang and Ruby applications

💻 Our stack

• Qonto was originally built as a banking application in Ruby. The Core Banking System was then written in Golang for obvious performance reasons. We are now leveraging both languages to write our new applications.
• However, not mastering Ruby, and Golang is not an issue at all! A lot of Qontoers have learned since they joined us.
  
  

To help you to quickly learn and grow on our stack, beyond the documentation & pair programming, we have a specific program for you and your dedicated mentor will be there to answer all your questions.

• At Qonto, you’ll encounter different technologies related to storage, communication, and deployment: PostgreSQL, Kafka, and ElasticSearch. You’ll also learn how to use Docker, Kubernetes, and Grafana.
  
  

🤔 What you can expect: our methodology, the Qonto Way

• We highly value the analysis phase on 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) collaboratively with your peers and manager.
• Our engineers dedicate themselves to one feature at a time.
  
  

🏅About You

• You have some experience coding, especially in Golang, Python, Ruby, or a similar language and you know the basics of SQL
• You are product-minded: you are committed to building a great experience for our users
• You understand the principles of why and how we test code
• You are curious, open-minded, and eager to learn
• You are comfortable with 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 ☺️

⚠️ Certain of our perks and benefits are only available to employees on permanent contracts

🎁 Perks

An inclusive work environment. And so much more to help you succeed.

• Offices in Paris, Berlin, Milan, Barcelona, and Belgrade;
• 1 or 2 remote days per week (depending on your team and what your school allows);
• 1 paid day off /month;
• A meal voucher;
• Public transportation reimbursement;
• 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.
  
  

Click here to read more about what it's like to be an intern at Qonto.

💬 Our hiring process:

• Interviews with your Talent Acquisition Manager and future manager/mentor
• A remote exercise to demonstrate your skills and give you a taste of what working at Qonto could be like
  
  

Find more information about our interview process on our careers website.

On average, our process lasts 20 working days and offers usually follow within 48 hours 🤞

To learn more about us:

Qonto's Blog | Les Échos I L'Usine Digitale | Courrier Cadres

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