1 day ago
Copenhagen, Denmark +3 moreSenior
Responsibilities
- Build and own clean, versioned, performant Data API endpoints for internal dashboards, customer-facing features, and third-party tools.
- Design and optimize PostgreSQL read models, indexes, caching strategies, and future OLAP integrations for low-latency performance.
- Integrate the serving layer with Kotlin-based product backend services.
- Own service reliability and performance, including monitoring, incident response, and customer-facing SLOs.
- Define contracts between data ingestion or aggregation layers and serving databases with Data Engineers.
- Secure APIs through authentication, authorization, access control, tenant isolation, and row- and column-level permissions with audit trails.
- Build a near-real-time aggregation service that unifies data across Pleo services.
- Design metadata, lineage, and governance capabilities for explainable and auditable data serving.
Requirements
- Strong backend engineering experience building and owning reporting, analytics API, and serving-layer infrastructure.
- Extensive experience designing API boundaries, endpoint versioning, stable contracts, and downstream abstractions.
- Expertise in read-heavy system performance, relational database optimization, indexing, materialized views, caching, and API tuning.
- Strong SQL and database fundamentals across relational and non-relational systems, plus deep Kafka expertise.
- Deep experience with a JVM-based language, particularly Kotlin or an equivalent language.
- Experience with AWS or GCP and Kubernetes, including configuring, deploying, and operating containerized applications.
- Experience bridging data systems and product backend services, including their operational differences.
- Experience in fintech, payments, or other regulated product environments.
- Ability to work independently in a hands-on delivery role and define solutions as well as implement them.
- Experience with API design and development, OLAP systems, and Kotlin is emphasized in the application guidance.
Benefits
- Remote, hybrid, or in-person working options are available depending on location, with employment requiring physical presence and valid work authorization in the selected country.
- Pleo card for employees.
- Catered meals or a local lunch allowance on work days.
- Comprehensive private healthcare, with coverage varying by location.
- 25 days of annual leave plus public holidays, with additional days possible in some countries.
- Free mental health and well-being support through MyndUp.
- Paid parental leave.
Tech Stack
Apache AirflowApache KafkaAWSdbtDockerGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformKotlinKubernetesPostgreSQLPython
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About Pleo
Pleo builds a spend management platform for businesses, combining corporate cards with software for expenses, reimbursements, invoices, and budgeting. It sells a subscription-based SaaS product that integrates with popular accounting systems and supports physical and virtual cards for teams. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Copenhagen, Pleo operates across multiple European markets and serves companies seeking to control and automate day-to-day spending.