Frontend Lead (remote-friendly)

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.

🌏 Location:You can choose to work in a full-remote mode as long as you're living in (or willing to relocate to) either Germany, France, Italy, Serbia or Spain.

⭐ Your missions

Join us as a Lead Frontend and help us drive the React migration while managing a high-performing team of frontend engineers in our Pricing domain. You will be part of a team of 80 Frontend engineers and managers shaping the financial app that will be used by one million SMEs by 2025.

As a Lead Frontend, your team will be composed of 5 Frontend Engineers working closely with Product, Backend and Mobile engineers within feature teams. You'll be joining at an exciting time as we complete our React migration with an ambitious close deadline.

👩‍💻🧑‍💻 As a Lead Frontend at Qonto, you will

People Management:

• Manage a team of 5 Frontend Engineers, spending approximately 20% of your time on management activities
• Foster the professional and technical growth of your teammates through mentorship, pairing, and delegation
• Provide regular feedback to your team members through 1-on-1s and regular progress reviews
• Build a collaborative, inclusive, and supportive team culture
• Conduct interviews to hire new team members

Technical Leadership & Delivery:

• Lead the React migration initiative with a challenging deadline, ensuring smooth transition from Ember.js
• Drive the delivery of your Frontend team to ensure that quality is shipped on time on well-scoped projects in order to meet business objectives
• Embrace and promote GenAI tools within your team to enhance productivity and development workflows
• Manage stakeholder relationships across Product, Backend, and Mobile teams within your CFT, particularly focusing on complex monetization features
• Establish and use engineering best practices to ensure high quality
• Contribute to improving the Web team's overall operating system

You will also contribute to making Qonto shine by writing blog articles or speaking at events.

The Web team strives for excellence in management: we developed a comprehensive management training program from scratch in only five weeks. This program is now used by several Tech teams to fast-track engineers to leadership positions.

🤔 What You Can Expect

• Lean inspired methodology: We accelerate growth using structured tools inspired by Lean management. You will be immersed in this culture and practice of continuous learning, which we call the Qonto Way.
• Quality and continuous improvement: Our engineers, working in cross-functional teams, focus on one feature at a time. Together with your team members, you will have autonomy to improve the team's operating system.
• Valorizing the analysis phase of software delivery: We're putting a heavy emphasis on upfront technical designs, code reviews, and smart slicing. You can expect to focus on quality, which we believe drives the velocity our customers need.
• AI-first approach: We're integrating GenAI tools into our development workflows and expect leads to champion this transformation within their teams.
• React migration: You'll be joining during our React migration with an ambitious end-of-year completion target - this is both a challenge and an opportunity to make a significant technical impact.
• Complex monetization challenges: The Pricing team works on sophisticated features that directly impact our business model and customer experience, requiring close collaboration with multiple teams.
• Diversity: At Qonto, we value diversity and we are proud to have 30% of women within our Web team. We also have 33% women in the Web managers group.

🤝 Your future manager

You will report to Adrien Cadet, Head of Mobile & Frontend for the Systems & Monetization domain.

Adrien brings deep expertise in leading technical teams through complex product challenges and scaling engineering organizations. He will support your growth as a leader while ensuring you have the autonomy and resources needed to drive your team's success.

🏅About You

• Management Experience: You already have meaningful experience as a manager, or have successfully tackled challenges that required people skills. You understand how to balance hands-on technical work with team leadership.
• React Expertise: Strong hands-on experience with React is essential for leading the migration and mentoring your team. You have at least four years of experience in software engineering using frontend JavaScript frameworks (React, Vue, Angular…). You don't need prior experience with Ember.
• AI Openness: Familiarity with or enthusiasm for GenAI tools and their application in software development. You're excited about integrating AI into development workflows.
• Stakeholder Management: You excel at cross-team collaboration and can effectively manage relationships with Product, Backend, and Mobile teams in a fast-paced environment, particularly in complex monetization contexts.
• Continuous improvement mindset: You put energy into getting better at your craft every day and drive improvements within your team and the broader organization.

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.

🎁 Perks

A tailor-made and dynamic career track. An inclusive work environment. And so much more to help you succeed.

• Offices in Paris, Berlin, Milan, Barcelona, and Belgrade;
• Competitive salary package;
• A meal voucher;
• Public transportation reimbursement (part or global);
• A great health insurance (depending on the country);
• Employee well-being initiatives: access to Moka Care to take care of your mental health and 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.

💬 Our hiring process:

• Interviews with your Talent Acquisition Manager and future managers
• 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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