Copenhagen or London or Madrid Hybrid

Pleo is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer

Responsibilities

  • Drive technical direction across integration platform + delivery work, with clear trade-offs and pragmatic sequencing.
  • Define and raise engineering quality standards for integrations (testing expectations, reliability/monitoring, security, logging), including for work done by external developers/partners.
  • Lead initiatives that enable scale, like reusable patterns/tooling (e.g., IDK) and frameworks that reduce one-off implementation work. You will be doing that primarily using Kotlin.
  • Improve ways of working: planning, prioritisation, and protecting the team from constant mid-week churn.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop innovative solutions across Platform, Services, SMB, and other domains.
  • Participate in code reviews, post-mortems, and provide mentorship to other engineers.
  • Proactively address technical debt and guide the team through technical challenges and migrations.

Requirements

  • Expertise in server-side languages, especially Kotlin, and experience with distributed systems, microservices, and cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Kubernetes).
  • Proficiency with relational databases like PostgreSQL, testing frameworks (e.g., JUnit, Testcontainers), and observability tools like Grafana.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and a collaborative mindset to mentor and upskill your teammates.
  • A proven ability to lead large projects, manage ambiguity, and maintain high standards for code quality and reliability.
  • A passion for innovation and driving impactful solutions within a fast-paced scale-up environment.

Nice to Have

  • Expertise in building integrations or working on accounting systems (is an advantage, but not necessary)
  • Senior-level systems thinking, able to operate “outside the team” and influence stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!)
  • Lunch is on us for your work days - enjoy catered meals or receive a lunch allowance based on your local office 🍜
  • Comprehensive private healthcare - depending on your location, coverage options include Vitality, Alan or Médis
  • We offer 25 days of holiday + your public holidays
  • Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrifice
  • We use MyndUp to give our employees access to free mental health and well-being support with great success so far ❤️‍🩹
  • Paid parental leave - we want to make sure that we're supportive of families and help you feel that you don't have to compromise your family due to work 👶

Additional Information

  • Please submit your application in English; it’s our company language so you’ll be speaking lots of it if you join 💕
  • We treat all candidates equally: If you are interested please apply through our application system - any correspondence should come from there! Our lovely support team isn't able to pass on any calls/ emails our way - and this makes sure that the candidate experience is smooth and fair to everyone 😊
  • We can only achieve our goals if our team reflects the diversity of the world around us - and that starts with you, hitting apply, even if you are worried you might not tick all the boxes. We embrace and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply - regardless of race/ethnicity, colour, religion, nationality, gender, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, neurodiversity, socio-economic status, culture or beliefs.
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Pleo
Pleo builds spend management solutions that make managing money seamless, empowering, and effective for finance teams and employees, with a vision to help all businesses 'go beyond'.
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Job Details
Department Software Development
Category backend
Posted 4 months ago