Pleo

Staff Engineer - Business Spend

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11 hours ago
Copenhagen, Denmark +3 moreStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Own the overall architecture of the Business Spend segment in partnership with the Engineering Manager.
  • Lead significant supplier and bank account data migration from a legacy service to a dedicated service without downtime.
  • Improve the reliability and observability of invoice payment flows.
  • Implement a consistent vendor data model across cards, invoices, and accounting.
  • Drive consistent technical decisions across three teams through design documents, code reviews, and architecture forums.
  • Provide technical mentorship through pairing, reviews, and clear written documentation.
  • Take a major supplier migration workstream through production and expand technical direction across the segment.

Requirements

  • Have extensive experience as a technical lead or owner of cross-team or cross-domain initiatives in SaaS organizations of 500+ people.
  • Have significant experience architecting services across multiple domains and decoupling complex legacy systems through long-term delivery plans.
  • Bring deep backend engineering experience in a modern statically typed language such as Java, Kotlin, or TypeScript on production systems at scale.
  • Demonstrate experience leading distributed teams across countries and time zones through both written and live communication.
  • Have a track record of executing migrations inside legacy systems, not only designing target architectures.
  • Have experience influencing technical direction across teams without direct ownership or formal authority.
  • Have strong technical writing experience with design documents, decision records, and migration plans.
  • Bring a background in payments, fintech, accounts payable, ERP, or B2B SaaS.
  • Have experience with event-driven systems and Kafka, plus a practice of building observability into shipped systems.

Benefits

  • Remote, hybrid, or in-person work options are available in listed locations, subject to being physically based in the selected country with valid work authorization.
  • Pleo card for employees.
  • Catered workday meals or a local lunch allowance.
  • Comprehensive private healthcare, with coverage options varying by location.
  • 25 days of annual leave plus public holidays, with additional local allowances in some countries.
  • Free mental health and well-being support through MyndUp.
  • Paid parental leave.

Tech Stack

Apache KafkaAWSGitHub ActionsGradleGrafanaKotlinKubernetesReactSpring BootTypeScript

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About Pleo

501-1,000 employees

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.

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