Senior Back-End Engineer
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We provide the DevOps automation platform built to empower developers. From cloud infrastructure provisioning to production deployment, Qovery streamlines every step, enabling faster delivery, simplified workflows, and significant time savings.
🤩 Why is your role important?
As a Senior Back End Engineer, you will play a key role in shaping the foundation of our product and infrastructure. Your work will directly impact the scalability, reliability, and performance of our systems, enabling our teams to deliver high-quality features to customers faster. This role is crucial to ensuring our backend architecture supports our long-term growth and technical ambitions.
🚀 What will your job look like?
Daily, you’ll be in charge of:
- Design, guide, and write product or system development code to solve complex problems.
- Review code developed by other experienced developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g. style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
- Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve them by analysing the sources of problems and the impact on network or service operations and quality.
- Hands-on technical leadership experience in setting technical direction and leading project teams of Engineers.
- Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback… and, of course, to the product itself!! Who better than you can contribute to a tool made for Developers?
If you're interested in looking at the challenges we're facing, you can take a look at our Engineering blog.
To see more, check out our user documentation: https://docs.qovery.com
Our technical stack:
- Kotlin with Spring Boot (control plane) and Rust (infrastructure deployment), Go (CLI, Terraform provider and tooling)
- Kubernetes
- Cloud providers (AWS/GCP/Scaleway,...)
- Databases: PostgreSQL, Redis
💡 About you:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience
- Extensive experience (at least 5 years) in contributing to a Software Engineering team in backend software development with a strong command of programming languages such as C, C++, Rust, Java, Python, Go, Perl or Ruby.
- Ideally, proficiency in designing, analysing and troubleshooting software and distributed systems.
- Solid grasp of Cloud provider's resources and Kubernetes
- Ability to debug and optimise code and automate routine tasks
- Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for tackling complex technical challenges
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with diverse teams.
- You’re product-oriented!
🎯 What You’ll Get at Qovery:
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects that make a real impact for Developers like you!
- Attracting benefits package
- A flexible work environment with a fully remote environment
- Continuous learning and professional development opportunities
- An authentic company culture with a focus on collaboration and innovation
💥 Our Talent Acquisition Process:
We’ve designed a streamlined process to ensure a great candidate experience. Typically, it takes 3-4 weeks:
- Screening with Marie (45 min to 1h)
- A general debug/troubleshooting interview with one of our Backend Developers (45 min to 1h)
- An interview focused on algo topic, also led by one of our Backend Developers (45 min to 1h)
- Design interview
- Cultural Round: Meet with a co-founder and leadership to discuss alignment with Qovery’s values and mission.
- Reference Checks: Validate performance, integrity, and alignment with our needs.
We’re committed to keeping you informed throughout the process, ensuring a smooth and transparent experience.
- Département
- R&D
- Locations
- France
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
- Yearly salary
- €60 - €85

About Qovery
We are passionate about simplifying the complexities of cloud infrastructure for software development. We provide an Internal Developer Platform that streamlines the path to production, offering solutions like testing, ephemeral environments, and a focus on continuous software improvement.
As a growing company co-founded by experienced professionals, we are committed to innovation and excellence in the tech world.