Principal Backend Engineer

Qonto · Paris

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Company
Qonto
Location
Paris
Employment type
Full-time
Posted
July 7, 2026

About this job

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us as Principal Backend Engineer in the Foundations domain and help scale the critical systems that power Qonto's 600,000+ customers — before they become bottlenecks. You'll drive company-wide backend initiatives spanning transactions, search, monetization, permissions, and integrations. ➡️ What you'll do Anticipate and solve scale challenges before they hit: You'll map technical risks across Foundations' core systems — ~600k daily transactions approaching 1B total, search indexing, billing — and drive the architectural work that keeps Qonto's growth ahead of its infrastructure.

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