Remote Android Engineer (Kotlin) - Qonto

Our mission is to create the most amazing banking experience for SMEs through technology, elegant design, and an outstanding sense of customer care. At Qonto, we believe that great services come from great thinkers, that’s why we strive to provide an environment that will allow you to feel comfortable and help you excel in your work (read more about our method).

Alexandre and Steve launched Qonto in July 2017, and the team reached great achievements since then:

  • Market leader for online SME banking in Europe 🏦
  • 220,000 SME clients 🏢
  • Outstanding customer satisfaction (App Store | Google Play | TrustPilot) 👍
  • Recognized as one of the best startups to work at (Wired | LinkedIn) 🤩
  • €615 million raised 💰
  • International investors with a solid fintech experience 💵
  • And 500+ happy Qontoers helping us building the bank of our

Our values:

- Ambition | We tackle big challenges no matter what

- Teamwork | We create magic by collaborating at the same speed

- Mastery | We pursue excellence through continuous learning and by facing challenges humbly every day

- Integrity | We are transparent and trustworthy with our clients and each other

The mobile engineering team at Qonto currently has over 25 highly skilled engineers, from all over the world, working closely to shape the best banking apps.


👩‍💻🧑‍💻As an Android Engineer at Qonto, you will

  • Develop new features. You will work on critical features (both architecture and UI) for our end users.
  • Collaborate with back-end team. You will work with the back-end dev team to integrate API client.
  • Solve challenging real-time synchronization problems.
  • Maintain a high level of quality. You will implement continuous refactoring and unit testing to constantly improve the codebase.
  • Improve technical solution. You will make your work very scalable, strongly robust and highly secured.
  • Share knowledge. You are willing to participate in the development of our internal tools.

We use Kotlin and Swift for our Mobile applications.

On the frontend, our apps are using the latest version of the EmberJS framework and our backend is running on Golang and Ruby.

Our platform runs on a Kubernetes cluster hosted on AWS, with PostgreSQL as our database of choice, using Kafka for our event sourcing and ELK for logging and auditing, among many other tools, services and applications.


🧠What you could work on

As part of our Engineering department, you will work within one of our cross-functional teams, each team handling part of our product. A few examples of these teams are:

💳Cards: the team responsible for all things cards. On the frontend this includes but is not limited to: the cards screen, the concierge and lounge page, and the card insurance page.

🏦Ledger: the team working on our Core Banking System, which allows us to store transactions in an accurate, scalable and auditable way.

✈️Onboarding: the team guiding users through a delightful and frictionless sign-up experience.


🏅About You

  • Experience: You have 5+ years experience as a mobile engineer with a strong background in Android development lifecycle.
  • Mastery: You have a strong development experience in Kotlin and a good understanding of the Android SDK.
  • Problem solver: You are pragmatic and solution-oriented.
  • Make an impact: You want to build a product that is used by thousands of companies, in a fast-growing environment.
  • Best Practices: You work in an organized manner with test coverage (Junit, Espresso and Robolectric), and other best practices.
  • Curiosity: You are a curious and open minded developer.
  • Team player: You have good communication skills and you know how to work with a team.
  • Languages: You are fluent in English. French is a plus.
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