Entrepreneurship in the territories: is it the right time?
TLDR;
Are you fascinated by applying Software Engineering to the real world and noble purposes? Donât wait, we have a challenging opportunity for you at Qomon!
Quick disclaimers:
- We welcome applicants that are (or will be) recent graduates! đ (with very good software engineering knowledge and development skills â we pay more attention on seniority than experience here)
- We really are into building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace! We donât 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 đ
Please apply through Welcome to the Jungle only, we will only screen applicants there. Thank you for your understanding.
We do believe itâs 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 â100 joursâ, 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 đ)
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).
Please apply through Welcome to the Jungle only, we will only screen applicants there. Thank you for your understanding.
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 â 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 itâs 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 â100 daysâ (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 doesnât 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 đ It really is a collective adventure and we want everyone to feel at ease đ
Team: Tech / Product
So the tech team is mostly in Bordeaux đ·(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! đ„
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 everyoneâs 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.
đ Four full-time members at the moment
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Paul, one of our former interns đ±
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Tristan
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Nicolas
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Hugo
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Jean-Baptiste, also CTO
