TLDR;
Are you fascinated by applying Software Engineering to the real world and noble purposes? Don’t wait, we have a challenging opportunity for you at Qomon!
Quick disclaimers:
We welcome applicants that are (or will be) recent graduates! 🎓 (with very good software engineering knowledge and development skills – we pay more attention on seniority than experience here)
We really are into building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace! We don’t expect candidates to match and feel at ease with every line of this lengthy job description: if you are excited by the opportunity, we strongly encourage you to apply and we shall see what impactful role we can shape together 🚀
We do believe it’s a one-of-a-kind opportunity
You will be taking part in a growing startup (and B-Corp), human-sized, with an experienced staff, supporting entrepreneurial mindsets, ownership, and with a very open / transparent / 0 bullshit company culture. Just like any team member, you will take part in the “100 jours”, our quarterly 2-day company-focused gathering where we share / learn / discuss roadmaps, practices, strategic choices, etc.
We are committed to a challenging, diverse and meaningful sector: citizen-driven organizations, NGOs, movements, campaigns, etc. all over the world.
We are closely collaborating with a wide range of citizen-focused actors and organizations in France and in 20+ countries. Qomon backend team is a key component of our company.
We are at stage where we are starting to have still a growing product (with lots of ideas in the backlog) and scalability challenges (not like Google though 🙄)
As a Backend Developer, you may contribute to several areas
Software engineering: Develop, test, improve our utils, APIs & Backoffice
Database engineering: tune database models / requests / configurations
Data Engineering: automation & plumbing between systems
Product Development: collaborate on the design of next features
DevOps: work on CI/CD, monitoring, etc.
Client Support: help our CSM / AE team into finding the right solutions for our clients & prospects
We obviously do not expect full proficiency over all those areas (awareness & curiosity will be valued).
The backend stack
Here is a bit of name-dropping regarding our stack in the backend: Unix, Golang, Microservices, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, KrakenD, RabbitMq, Presto, Trino & Dagster.
More infra related: Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, Monitoring (Telegraf + Influxdb + Grafana, Zabbix)
The infra stack is shared, extended & owned by all the tech team (Backend, Frontend & Data).
General team info
Here is some quick information about the team.
Qomon
We currently are around 30 full-time employees and growing at a reasonable and organized pace:
Paris: CEO, Head of Operations, 4 sales, 2 marketing, 1 PMM, 1 CSM (+2 intern), 1 dev Backend, 1 Full-Stack data-scientists
Bordeaux: CTO (/backend dev) + 3 dev Backend, 8 frontend devs, 1 CSM.
Remote: Lisbon, Barcelona, Toronto, London – some of our teams work remotely.
We are expecting new full-time members in most Qomon teams by the end of 2024 and more later on ;)
On another topic, the day-to-day language at Qomon in Bordeaux is French. In Paris it’s a mix of French and English as we are very lucky to have foreigners in the team! We are moving more and more towards English for company communication as we have non-French speaking members in the team.
We meet (virtually) on a weekly basis twice:
On Monday mornings to do demos and share achievements,
On Monday afternoons, to align everyone on the week objectives & challenges.
We gather IRL for each quarter during the “100 days” (already described above).
We have a 0 useless / unprepared meeting policy.
We are a small team, the hierarchy is rather flat and there is no micromanagement. But this doesn’t mean that there is 0 management: team leaders, more senior members, and the CEO / CTO are always available on demand to discuss objectives, careers, everyday life issues, etc. And obviously, at least once a year 😊 It really is a collective adventure and we want everyone to feel at ease 🚀
Team: Tech / Product
So the tech team is mostly in Bordeaux 🍷(The Data / R&D Team is based in Paris and one of the awesome backend dev is also in Paris)
It has a strong team spirit, it is composed of individuals with a diverse set of expertise, backgrounds and motivations which makes things interesting! 🔥
To be clear upfront, not all processes are set in stone yet and we are regularly challenging our organization / scopes / etc.
The current situation is that the product team works on 2-week sprints and we do quick written dailies to understand everyone's progress and challenges.
In terms of general tooling we are using Gitlab, Slack, Discord, Clickup & Notion.
Team: Backend
Our main focuses are to deliver awesome new features to our clients and keep the platform in a healthy running state. We are part of the Product team and work hand in hand with the frontend & data teams.
👉 Four full-time members at the moment
- Paul, one of our former interns 🌱
I joined Qomon for the diversity of the challenges and the awesome working atmosphere that is still there after years. Being able to participate in a project that feels beneficial for society is also important to me and I really like the autonomy I have.
Tristan
Nicolas
Hugo
Jean-Baptiste, also CTO
Your future objectives
Here is a subset of your future objectives:
Implement the backend side of new features
Work on making our product more technologically scalable
Take part in creating the Product roadmap
Obviously, enjoy doing the tasks of the roadmaps ;)
Contribute to the company processes and discussions
Get fully familiar with the whole backend projects / architecture @Qomon
What we have to offer 🎁
💸 Competitive package to work — we believe it — in a fascinating industry with huge challenges coming in the nearest future :). Just to clear something upfront, we are not a 2021 French Scaleup burning cash nor Google. We try to be a worth it adventure.
🗣️ Join a team as a first ~20 employees in a hand-on and international environment
🏢 Paris office in “Le Marais” or Bordeaux office in “Darwin”
🫂 Take part in a small team with a huge ambition
🔥 Freedom to act and to develop your skills within an experienced & growing team
🚄 Regular team offsites every quarter to stay trained and aligned (but also have fun) (les “100 jours”)
🚉 50% coverage of your transport tickets
⚕️ The highest-level of Alan health coverage 90% supported by Qomon
💻 A computer, and what you need to work
🏠 Possibility of (partial) remote
📱 Product first team with huge ambitions in an incredible momentum
🅱️ Qomon is certified B-corp. Certified B Corporations are a new kind of business that balances purpose and profit.
Paris only for now:
🍓 Fruits and Candies on Mondays at the Office
🧘 Yoga class on Wednesdays
