About the company
Pleo builds spend solutions that make managing money seamless for finance teams and employees. The company has 40,000+ customers and 850+ people from over 100 nationalities.
About the role
We're looking for a Staff Engineer to join the Business Spend segment at Pleo. You'll help build invoices, purchase orders, supplier invoices, cards for subscriptions and be part of Business Spend as we scale procurement to pay services.
You'll report to the Engineering Manager in Business Spend and work closely with teams in accounting systems and card infrastructure. Our team of 10 is highly collaborative and dedicated to invoices and vendors. You'll also partner with teams across product, design and compliance.
Responsibilities
- Partner with the Engineering Manager to own and be accountable for the whole architecture of Business Spend
- Own significant parts of our supplier data migration, moving supplier and bank account logic out of a legacy service into a dedicated one, per customer and without downtime
- Improve the reliability of our invoice payment flows, where roughly 2.5% of payments currently fail
- Turn our new vendor data model into working software, so that a supplier means the same thing across cards, invoices, and accounting
- Help the 3 teams make consistent technical decisions, through design documents, code review, and the architecture forum
- Raise the people around you, through pairing, review, and writing things down clearly
Requirements
- Strong verbal communication
- Experience as the technical lead for a team spread across several countries and time zones
- 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
- The ability to change technical direction across teams you don't own
- Writing that other people can act on: design documents, decision records, migration plans
- 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
Conditions
- Applications open until Tuesday 13th October 2026 at 08.00 CEST
- Tech stack: AWS, Github actions, Kotlin on the JVM, Kafka, Spring Boot, Gradle, Kubernetes, Grafana. Frontend is TypeScript and React