Staff Applied AI Engineer

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Qonto, you will build AI-integrated backend systems that connect models to compliance workflows in a regulated environment. You’ll own the end-to-end service architecture and help automate AML/AFC operations to accelerate onboarding and agent responses. You’ll shape the technical direction in a small team and contribute to the broader FCC domain as Qonto scales toward a full banking licence. This role combines AI delivery with robust backend engineering in a fast, autonomous setting.

• remote-friendly / full remote
• cross-country work locations
• participation in AI tooling access for all employees

• Build production-grade services that integrate AI models (Claude/OpenAI or open-source) with compliance workflows
• Own end-to-end service architecture and drive reliability and scalability without a PM layer
• Automate AML/AFC compliance operations (EDD automation and onboarding acceleration) with input from ops teams
• Monitor production, run post-mortems, track impact, and implement improvements
• Lead design discussions and contribute to the platform’s architectural direction
• Operate with direct roadmap ownership and prioritize work in a lean, fast-paced process

• Strong backend foundation with experience in large-scale web applications and production constraints
• Experience shipping AI-integrated production systems
• Proficiency in Python (ideally)
• Solid ability to design and articulate architectural trade-offs
• Comfort owning the full product cycle from scoping to shipping without a dedicated PM

• ownership and accountability
• strong architectural judgment
• ability to work autonomously in a small team
• Python (ideally)
• large-scale web application architecture
• AI model integration (Claude/OpenAI or open-source)