ABOUT THE JOB

Join us as a Senior Backend Engineer to build the AI-powered tooling that enables our 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 , 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 teamYou’ll join a team of 5 engineers within our  Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) domain, alongside  (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.

➡️ About you

• 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

Are you interested in this position?

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