Head of Frontend | Qonto | Remote (Spain)

Posted 2025-09-08
Remote, USA Full Time Immediate Start
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Our mission</strong>? Making day-to-day banking easier for SMEs and freelancers thanks to an online business account that&#8217;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.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Our journey:</strong> Founded by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprot/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Alexandre</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steveanavi/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Steve</a> 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 <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/top-companies-2023-les-25-entreprises-o%C3%B9-acc%C3%A9l%C3%A9rer-1c" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">LinkedIn Top Companies</a> French ranking!</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Our values:</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Customer focus |</strong> Prioritize customers in everything you do</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Ownership |</strong> Own your part, get things done</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Teamwork |</strong> Make (team)work easy</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Mastery |</strong> Continuously raise the bar</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Integrity |</strong> Always do what’s right, and respect people</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Our beliefs:</strong> At Qonto, we&#8217;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.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><a href="https://medium.com/qonto-way/a-recruiters-dilemma-confronting-bias-in-hiring-b78acce148eb" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Discover the steps we took to create a discrimination-free hiring process</a>.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">🌏 <strong class=" font-semibold">Location:</strong> <em>You can choose to work in Qonto as long as you&#8217;re living in (or willing to relocate to) either <strong class=" font-semibold">Germany</strong>, <strong class=" font-semibold">France</strong>, <strong class=" font-semibold">Italy</strong>, <strong class=" font-semibold">Serbia, Portugal,</strong> or <strong class=" font-semibold">Spain</strong>.</em></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">⭐ Mission:</strong> Join Qonto as Head of Frontend to lead 3 of our cross-functional teams in creating cutting-edge, scalable web solutions that will revolutionize the FinTech industry. Working closely with our Engineering leadership, you&#8217;ll drive the technical strategy that will shape the future of our web platform, impacting millions of users across Europe.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">👩‍💻🧑‍💻 As a Head of Frontend at Qonto, you will</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Leadership &amp; People Management:</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">• <strong class=" font-semibold">Manage 3 teams</strong> of 15+ engineers.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">• <strong class=" font-semibold">Coach your team leaders and engineers</strong> to maintain quality and velocity while the team grows and complexity increases.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">• <strong class=" font-semibold">Provide technical leadership and mentorship</strong> to managers, empowering them to make decisions and grow in their roles.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Strategic delivery &amp; Technical impact:</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">• <strong class=" font-semibold">Drive delivery</strong> of product features and improvements with a high level of quality and on time.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">• <strong class=" font-semibold">Drive the ongoing React migration project</strong>, balancing technical debt reduction with new feature development.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Customer Focus &amp; Stakeholder Management:</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">• <strong class=" font-semibold">Spread a culture</strong> of continuous improvement: learn how to write better code to ship features faster.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">• <strong class=" font-semibold">Foster collaboration</strong> with partner teams such as Product, Data, Backend, Mobile &amp; and with third parties.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">🤔 What you can expect</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We value the analysis phase of software delivery. We&#8217;re putting a heavy emphasis on upfront technical designs, code reviews, and smart slicing. You can expect to <strong class=" font-semibold">focus on quality</strong>, which we believe <strong class=" font-semibold">drives the velocity</strong> our customers need.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We think success comes from a space where you&#8217;re given time, support, and autonomy <strong class=" font-semibold">to improve yourself, our systems and our processes</strong>.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Our engineers, working in cross-functional teams, focus on <strong class=" font-semibold">one feature at a time</strong>. Together with your team, you will have autonomy to improve the team’s operating system. You can learn more about the team’s culture of continuous improvement in <a href="https://medium.com/qonto-way/the-1-factor-boosting-your-teams-performance-by-accumulating-marginal-gains-bf9d212fcaf3" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">this article</a> by Florian, Director of Web.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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 <a href="https://medium.com/qonto-way/process-doesnt-scale-knowledge-does-db0ca2fd6f4b" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Qonto Way</a>.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">🤝 About your future team</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">You will be part of a team with high standards of performance, as illustrated in <a href="https://medium.com/qonto-way/two-powerful-tools-to-lead-your-team-to-success-49cdeeee6f66" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">this other article</a>. We strive for excellence in management: <a href="https://medium.com/qonto-way/growing-the-leader-within-how-we-built-an-internal-management-training-in-only-five-weeks-6e5d81cbe99a" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">we developed a comprehensive management training program from scratch in only five weeks</a>. This program is now used by several Tech teams to fast-track engineers to a Lead’s position.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">At Qonto, <strong class=" font-semibold">we value diversity</strong> and we are proud to have 30% of women within our Web team. We also have 33% women in the Web managers group.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Our web apps were developed using the <a href="https://emberjs.com/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Ember.js framework</a>, and we have released <a href="https://github.com/qonto/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">several open-source JavaScript libraries</a>. <strong class=" font-semibold">The Web team is</strong> <a href="https://medium.com/qonto-way/setting-sail-from-ember-why-we-are-charting-a-course-toward-react-at-qonto-8c475931cff2" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><strong class=" font-semibold">planning the migration to a brand-new stack based on React</strong></a>. Now is an exciting time to join!</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">🏅About You</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">• <strong class=" font-semibold">Experience:</strong> You have a proven track record of leading Frontend development teams in fast-paced, high-growth environments, with strong technical skills in frontend engineering.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">• <strong class=" font-semibold">Leadership:</strong> You excel at managing and mentoring other managers, fostering their growth and development while balancing autonomy with oversight.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">• <strong class=" font-semibold">Strategic thinking:</strong> You can develop and execute technical roadmaps and scaling plans for complex web platforms, with a focus on both short-term delivery and long-term strategy.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">• <strong class=" font-semibold">Stakeholder management:</strong> You&#8217;re skilled at building relationships across departments and managing diverse stakeholder needs, treating colleagues as if they were customers.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">• <strong class=" font-semibold">Business acumen:</strong> You can understand and challenge product decisions based on solid business understanding and data analysis, always keeping the customer&#8217;s needs in focus.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>At Qonto we understand that true diversity isn&#8217;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&#8217;ve been searching for all along.</em></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">🎁 Perks</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">A tailor-made and dynamic career track. An inclusive work environment. And so much more to help you succeed.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">&#8211; Offices in Paris, Berlin, Milan, Barcelona, and Belgrade;</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">&#8211; Tailor-made remote work policy depending on the job you apply for and where you live;</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">&#8211; Competitive salary package;</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">&#8211; A meal voucher;</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">&#8211; Public transportation reimbursement (part or global);</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">&#8211; A great health insurance (depending on the country);</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">&#8211; Employee well-being initiatives: access to <a href="https://www.moka.care/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Moka Care</a> to take care of your mental health and great offers for sports and wellness activities;</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">&#8211; A progressive disability, and parenthood policy as part of our commitment to the <a href="https://www.welcometothejungle.com/fr/articles/parental-act-conge-paternite" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Parental Act</a> (1 in 6 of Qonto employees is a parent!) and childcare benefits with selected partners;</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">&#8211; Monthly team events.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">💪 Our hiring process:</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">&#8211;</strong> Interviews with your Talent Acquisition Manager and future managers</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">&#8211;</strong> A remote exercise to demonstrate your skills and give you a taste of what working at Qonto could be like</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">We will send you an <strong class=" font-semibold">interview guide</strong> so you can best prepare yourself.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">On average, our process lasts <strong class=" font-semibold">20 working days</strong> and offers usually follow within <strong class=" font-semibold">48 hours</strong> 🤞</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">To learn more about us:</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><a href="https://medium.com/qonto-way" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Qonto&#8217;s Blog</a> | <a href="https://www.lesechos.fr/finance-marches/banque-assurances/la-neobanque-qonto-prete-a-accelerer-en-france-et-a-letranger-2030323" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Les Échos</a> I <a href="https://www.usine-digitale.fr/article/qonto-lance-une-plateforme-de-financement-pour-les-pme.N2095666" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">L&#8217;Usine Digitale</a> | <a href="https://courriercadres.com/inclusion-et-diversite-dans-la-tech-lexemple-de-qonto/" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Courrier Cadres</a></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><em>To know how your personal data will be processed during your application process or to request its deletion, please <a href="https://qonto.com/en/legal-documents/privacy-notice" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">click here</a>.</em></p>
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