Staff Engineer – Business Spend

About the role

About Pleo Messy spend management is tricky business. And tedious processes are a lose-lose situation for all involved, not just finance. At Pleo, we’re changing that. We build spend solutions that make managing money seamless, empowering, and surprisingly effective for finance teams and employees alike – with a vision to help all businesses ‘go beyond’. The word ‘Pleo’ actually means ‘more than you’d expect’, and living by that mantra has been the secret to our success over the last 10 years. Now, we’re at a pivotal moment in our journey; every move we make has a direct impact on our 40,000+

Requirements

• Strong verbal communication. You can hold a room of engineers who don’t share a first language and leave everyone clear on what was decided.
• Experience as the technical lead for a team spread across several countries and time zones. You adapt how you communicate rather than expecting everyone to adapt to you, and you’re as effective in wri
• Deep backend engineering experience in a modern statically typed language such as Java, Kotlin or TypeScript, on systems running in production at scale.
• A track record of shipping inside a legacy system that was being taken apart. Not just designing the target state, but doing the migration.
• The ability to change technical direction across teams you don’t own, with specific examples of when you’ve done it.
• Writing that other people can act on. Design documents, decision records, migration plans that work without you in the room.
• A background in payments, fintech, accounts payable, ERP or B2B SaaS.
• Experience with event-driven systems and Kafka, and a habit of building observability into what you ship.