Lead Data Engineer
Paris / Barcelona / Berlin / Milan / Belgrade
Tech & Data – Data Engineering /
Full-time /
Hybrid
Our mission? Making day-to-day banking easier for SMEs and freelancers thanks to an online business account that's combined with invoicing, bookkeeping and spend management tools. Thanks to its innovative product, highly reactive 24/7 customer support and clear pricing, Qonto has become the leader in its market.
Our journey: Founded by Alexandre and Steve in July 2017, Qonto has rapidly gained trust, serving over 450,000 customers. Thanks to our wonderful team of 1,400+ 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.
Qonto has grown a 60+ data team with Data Engineers, BI, and Data Scientists working together to deliver great dashboards, reports, and data products.
The data platform covers three key functions: governance, ingestion, and data modeling, providing high-quality and available data to all Qontoers and to all data teams: BI, DS-Analytics, and Data Products.
There are 16 engineers in the data platform team divided into data engineers and analytics engineers.
👩💻🧑💻 As a Lead Data Engineer at Qonto, you will:
• Coach and grow your team of 5 data engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and growth.
• Lead the data engineering roadmap, ensuring project deliverables align with business objectives and timelines.
• Assume a people leadership role and bring technical vision to your team, map and set up data governance, ensure all data pipelines provide high-quality and fresh data to all Qontoers, and maintain a performant data model.
• Scale our Airflow monolith by splitting it into a module approach
• Create real-time data products, crafting a streaming platform that leverages innovative technical solutions.
• Simplify and automate Data ingestion for Qonto.
• Decrease data ingestion incidents by collaborating with cross-functional teams, increasing data documentation and discoverability.
🛠 Tech Stack
The team uses Python, SQL, and state-of-the-art infrastructure, encompassing Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Kafka, Apache, Flink.
🤔 What you can expect
• Join Qonto who is winning SME banking in Europe. Qonto is on track to power one million SMEs in 2025.
• Technological Investment: Qonto invests a lot in technology, to stay ahead in this field and in constant innovation.
• Growth and Leadership Development: grow as a manager, improving your management gestures and methods.
• Impactful Work: have a direct impact in building a centralized and self-service real-time data platform at scale to be used by hundreds of users daily.
• Empower to seamlessly channel daily terabytes of data throughout the organization with resilience.
🤝 About your future manager:
Your future manager, David (Head of Data Platform), brings a wealth of experience in data analytics and a proven track record of leading high-performing teams. David is deeply committed to nurturing talent and fostering an environment where initiative and innovation thrive. He has a strong international career with multiple software and data engineering experiences. Before joining Qonto in January 2022, he was the CTO of several startups in the sports & video game industries.
🏅About You
• People Management: You have strong leadership experience, managing data engineers, software engineers, or Analytics Engineers.
• Mastery: You are familiar with data pipeline tools (airflow, dbt, etc.), stream-processing platforms (Kafka, Spark, Flow) modern data architectures, and data governance processes.
• Leadership: You are a natural leader with the ability to influence and drive initiatives across teams.
• Simplicity and quality: You prefer simple solutions and are obsessed with quality
• Languages: You are fluent in English. French is a plus.
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;
- Tailor-made remote work policy depending on the job you apply for and where you live;
- 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 as part of our commitment to the Parental Act (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
We will send you an interview guide so you can best prepare yourself.
On average, our process lasts 20 working days and offers usually follow within 48 hours 🤞
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