Senior/Staff Backend Engineer - AI Compliance Tooling

Qonto SA

Job Overview

Location

Paris

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Join us as a Senior Backend Engineer to build the AI-powered tooling that enables Qonto's financial crime compliance teams to make decisions faster and with greater confidence, directly supporting our path to a full banking licence.
• As a Backend Engineer at Qonto, you will
• Build AI-integrated backend systems: Design and ship production-grade services that connect AI models (Claude, OpenAI, or open-source equivalents) to our compliance workflows, handling prompting, output parsing, and model behaviour in a real regulated-industry context
• Own service architecture end-to-end: Co-own design, reliability, and scalability from day one, no PM layer between you and the technical decisions that shape the product
• Automate AML/AFC compliance operations: Translate compliance agent workflows into software, from EDD automation to customer onboarding acceleration, with direct feedback from the ops teams you're helping
• Drive continuous improvement: From production monitoring to post-mortems, you track impact, flag regressions, and improve what's in your scope with your peers and manager
• Shape the technical direction: In a team of 5, every engineer carries architectural weight. You'll lead design discussions, anticipate risks, and contribute to how the platform evolves
• What you can expect
• Short time-boxes and lean process: daily goals, light Kanban, ceremonies, you spend most of your time building, not in planning meetings
• AI is the product, not a side tool: this team's output is AI-powered compliance tooling. You'll use Claude or OpenAI to solve real problems, and you'll be expected to handle model behaviour reliably in production, not just use AI to go faster
• Direct roadmap ownership: no dedicated PM means you and the team define priorities, your judgment shapes what gets built next
• Close feedback loop: AML/AFC ops teams proactively raise needs and respond quickly to what you ship. Lead time reduction, prediction confidence, and agent throughput are the metrics that tell you it's working
• Your future team
• You'll join a team of 5 engineers within Qonto's Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) domain, alongside Ioannis (Tech Lead) and a mix of Senior/Staff Backend Engineers and Machine Learning Engineers.
• You'll be part of a 190-strong backend engineering community within a 500+ Product Engineering department.
• One important clarification: this team does not build fraud detection engines or KYC/KYB rule engines. Those exist elsewhere at Qonto. This team builds the automation layer on top, turning model outputs into decisions that help compliance agents respond faster. It's a backend role at the intersection of AI integration and regulated-industry operations.

🎯 Requirements

• AI integration in production: You've shipped systems where AI (Claude, OpenAI, or open-source) is a core functional component, not a coding assistant, but the product itself.
• Strong backend foundation: Solid experience with large-scale web application architecture and real production constraints + Ideally experience in Python.
• Sound architectural judgment: You make confident system design decisions independently and can articulate the trade-offs.
• Product instinct without a PM: You're comfortable owning the full cycle: scoping, prioritizing, shipping, success metrics

🏖️ Benefits

• Short time-boxes and lean process: daily goals, light Kanban, ceremonies, you spend most of your time building, not in planning meetings
• AI is the product, not a side tool: this team's output is AI-powered compliance tooling. You'll use Claude or OpenAI to solve real problems, and you'll be expected to handle model behaviour reliably in production, not just use AI to go faster
• Direct roadmap ownership: no dedicated PM means you and the team define priorities, your judgment shapes what gets built next
• Close feedback loop: AML/AFC ops teams proactively raise needs and respond quickly to what you ship. Lead time reduction, prediction confidence, and agent throughput are the metrics that tell you it's working

Skills & Technologies

Python

Backend

Senior

Remote

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About Qonto SA

Qonto SA operates a digital business banking platform providing current accounts, payment cards, invoicing, bookkeeping and expense management tools for SMEs, freelancers and startups across Europe. The company combines IBAN accounts, SEPA transfers, virtual and physical debit cards, automated accounting exports and team permissions in a mobile and web application. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Paris, Qonto serves over 400,000 business customers in France, Germany, Italy and Spain, regulated as an electronic money institution and payment service provider under European law.

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