Location: Madrid, London, Lisbon Departments: Engineering & IT
At Pleo, we’re on a mission to revolutionise the way businesses manage company spending. We believe spend management should be seamless, empowering, and surprisingly effective for finance teams and employees alike. We’re creating tools that promote autonomy, foster trust, and let businesses focus on what truly matters.
About The Role
Engineers are the backbone of all we do at Pleo. We are looking for experienced Backend Engineers to join one of our cross-functional product teams. As a Senior, you will be an expert in server-side languages, with Kotlin being the primary language for over 90% of our micro-services. Beyond writing excellent, well-tested, maintainable code, you will also practice strong technical leadership. This includes giving insightful PR reviews, being a trusted technical partner, prioritising tech debt, proactively handling incidents, leading post-mortems, and upskilling and unblocking the team.
Your responsibilities will include taking ownership and leading large projects such as new product launches, managing migrations, and designing and building new microservices or components. As a scale-up, you will also be a steady hand to help the team navigate ambiguity and manage technical change.
We are looking for someone others can look up to and learn from, setting the standard for the team through code, work ethic, and culture promotion. At Pleo, people and culture are paramount, and we value trust and transparency.
As we grow, we are excited to welcome Backend Engineers to join various domains, including Platform and Services, Partnerships, SMB, Credit, and more. While the specific team will be decided later, our hiring process is streamlined to ensure a great fit. You will be part of a dynamic, collaborative environment tackling complex challenges, building reusable components, and shaping the future of our product.
You know your way around
- Server-side languages (primarily Kotlin, with some services in TypeScript)
- Cloud environments/ distributed systems/ microservices (AWS, Google Cloud, Kubernetes)
- Relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL)
- Testing frameworks (Cypress, JUnit, Testcontainers)
- Observability and monitoring (Datadog)
- DevOps culture and tools (GitHub Actions, Gradle, Terraform)
Your colleagues would say you
- Work in English with ease (it's our company language)
- Are never stop being curious and love learning about new languages/ frameworks/ working styles
- Have experience solving complex technical challenges at scale
- Ensure a high bar for quality and reliability within your team
- Coach others to help them develop as engineers
- Advocate for a more thorough code review process
- Don’t just write code; help to design the overall solution
- Are sought after within your team for help in solving challenging problems
- Are a force multiplier within your team, enabling other engineers to be even better
- Can raise and describe technical debt faced by your team, and propose solutions
Show me the 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 - coverage options include Vitality, Alan or Médis depending on location
- 25 days of holiday + public holidays
- Hybrid and fully remote working options
- Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrifice
- Free mental health and well-being support through MyndUp ❤️🩹
- Paid parental leave 👶
Annual Salary: * Spain/Portugal: 87,000€-93,000€ * United Kingdom: £79,000-£83,000
Why join us?
Working at Pleo means working on the future of work. Our mission is to help every company go beyond the books. Pleo itself means ‘more than you’d expect’, and it’s been the secret to our success. We think company spending should be delegated, automated, and drive a culture of responsible spending. Finance teams should work in unity with all other departments.
Our values: * Champion the customer: Address real pain points businesses face. * Succeed as a team: Strength in diversity and trust in each other. * Make it happen: Take bold decisions and deliver results. * Build to scale: Create lasting solutions for today’s challenges and anticipate tomorrow’s needs.
Pleo is an 850+ team, from over 100 nations, with offices in Copenhagen, London, Stockholm, Berlin, Madrid, Montreal, and Lisbon, plus many full-time remotes in 35 other countries. We are inspired by a good work-life balance. We support remote employees with setting up their workspace and ensuring team connection.
