Lead Android (remote friendly) - Qonto

Beschreibung : Lead Android (remote friendly). Unternehmen : Qonto. Lage : Homeoffice in Berlin

Our mission? Creating the finance solution that energizes SMEs and freelancers, so they can achieve more. We simplify everything from everyday banking to bookkeeping and spend management. At Qonto, we’re passionate about creating the best product, so if you’re looking for an ambitious team that’s revolutionizing an old-fashioned industry, get in touch!
Our journey:
Alexandre and Steve launched Qonto in July 2017. Since then, the team has earned the trust of more than 400,000 customers and opened offices in Paris, Berlin, Milan, and Barcelona. Last summer, we joined forces with Penta, a market leader based in Berlin and Belgrade, forming a united team of 1,300 Qontoers. We also made it to the LinkedIn Top Companies French ranking!
Our values:
Ambition | We tackle big challenges. No matter what. Teamwork | We create momentum by working together, at the same speed. Mastery | We pursue excellence through continuous learning. We face challenges with humility. Every day. Integrity | We're open. We're honest. And we earn the trust of our clients and each other.
You can find out more about the Qonto Way here.
Our beliefs:
Our goal at Qonto is to create a warm and welcoming environment where individuals from all walks of life can truly thrive. We've gone above and beyond to ensure that every applicant is evaluated solely based on their skills and potential, rather than their gender, ethnicity, age, (dis)ability, or any other irrelevant factor. Our team consists of 49% international individuals, with 44% women and 20% parents. With this diversity, we are a powerful force! Join us in our mission to build a workplace that celebrates diversity and embraces individuality. Discover the steps we took to create a discrimination-free hiring process.
Our career track:
At Qonto, we cherish your unique skills, breaking away from conventional labels like "senior" or "director," and instead, offering personalized career tracks and expertise levels from 1 to 9 that truly celebrate your impact!
The mobile engineering team at Qonto currently has over 100 highly skilled engineers distributed in cross-functional teams, who come from all over the world, working closely to shape the best business finance solution app.
‍‍ As an Android Engineering Manager at Qonto, you will:


  • Manage a team of 4 to 7 Android Engineers
  • Foster collaboration with engineering, product, and design leads to define a vision and strategy for your team
  • Drive the delivery of your team to reach business objectives
  • Ensure high quality by establishing and using engineering best practices in your team
  • Hire the best talents to build a collaborative, inclusive, and supportive team culture
  • Orient and support your team through regular feedback, 1&1 sessions, pairing sessions, mentoring, and quarterly progress reviews
  • Make the Android Qonto team shine by encouraging internal and public presentations
  • Support a critical service used by tens of thousands of users on a daily basis

Our app is 100% written in Kotlin and based on MVVM & Clean architecture, using the Coordinator pattern, Coroutines and Flows. We have started challenging initiatives such as modularization, reducing the build time, migrating towards Jetpack Compose. Our CI is composed of Gitlab, Firebase (distribution, Test Lab) and Sonar.
A high focus on tech quality is done :
  • Using Clean Code / SOLID principles
  • Investing effort on tests: 14000+ unit test and +1400 UITests
  • Following a component approach, using our design system.

Want to know more about the mobile team's performance indicator? Click here
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
: Build and sell cards that are top of wallet for all company expenses. Spend Management: Gain market shares on larger SMEs thanks to Finance management, starting in France, through an efficient Spend Management product. Invoices: Streamline AR (account receivable) and AP (account payable) workflows for businesses, enhancing cash flow management while building a smooth relationship with their clients and suppliers. Bookkeeping: Gain market shares on larger SMEs thanks to Finance management, starting in France, through an efficient Spend Management product. Design System: Crafting the future of the user experience at scale through new patterns and components.
What you can expect

  • Work in a fast-paced environment with a strong focus on quality
  • Build and improve features used by 400K+ clients across Europe
  • Learn and grow from other team members and managers through expert coaching and mentorship
  • Collaborate with other teams on tech challenges, spec reviews, brainstorming & problem-solving sessions
  • Share knowledge among the whole tech and product team (internal and external conferences, weekly meetings, Tech Monthlies) and the community (articles, meetups…)

Your future Head of

Your Head of will be either Guillaume or Sylvain, who are in charge of the Mobile team.
Their background?

Coming from a Software Engineering background, Guillaume started to nurture his mobile practices +10 years ago. Over the past years, he worked in the music streaming industry and then on building a marketplace for homeowners and tradespeople for London-based startups before joining Qonto. After 6 months as an Android developer, he seized the opportunity to build and lead the mobile team.
Having graduated from an engineering school with a focus on hardware, Sylvain discovered software engineering working at Sony +10 years ago. Following this experience, he joined the French second-hand marketplace leader where he stayed for more than 6 years, evolving from Android Developer to Engineering Manager, before joining Qonto. After 2 years as a Lead Android, he became our second Head of Mobile.
What do they bring to the team?
Together with the Mobile leads, Guillaume & Sylvain continuously improves the team’s operating system to reduce waste, reach top quality in our product and grow team members towards proficiency.
About You

  • Mastery: You have strong knowledge and experience in Kotlin and a good understanding of the Android SDK.
  • Leadership skills: Through your first successful management or mentoring experience, you demonstrated your ability to help people grow and work together on a successful project.
  • Team player: You have excellent communication, you already worked on a large Android team and know what it means to scale a team, diffuse knowledge across a team, or even break silos.
  • Best Practices: You embody the Clean Code principles and other management best practices.
  • Make an impact: You want to build a product that is used by thousands of companies, in a fast-growing environment.
  • 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 laptop. An inclusive work environment. A tailor-made career track. And so much more to help you succeed.

  • A central fully-renovated building in Berlin with WeWork services
  • Monthly team events
  • Tailor-made remote work policy depending on the job you apply for
  • 28 days of paid leave
  • Moka Care to take care of your mental health and gym access with Urban Sports Club
  • A Hrmony lunch card: 100% covered
  • 100% public transportation reimbursement
  • A progressive 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

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