Pleo is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Accounting Integrations team with Tech Lead responsibilities. You will define technical direction and quality standards, help transition from shipping integrations to building an integrations system, and work on scalable foundations.
What You'll Do
- Drive technical direction across the integration platform and delivery work, with clear trade-offs and pragmatic sequencing.
- Define and raise engineering quality standards for integrations, including testing, reliability, security, and logging.
- Lead initiatives that enable scale, like reusable patterns, tooling, and frameworks that reduce one-off implementation work.
- Improve team ways of working: planning, prioritisation, and protecting the team from constant mid-week churn.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop innovative solutions across Platform, Services, SMB, and other domains.
- Participate in code reviews, post-mortems, and provide mentorship to other engineers.
- Proactively address technical debt and guide the team through technical challenges and migrations.
What We're Looking For
- Senior-level systems thinking, with the ability to operate 'outside the team' and influence stakeholders.
- Expertise in server-side languages, especially Kotlin, and experience with distributed systems, microservices, and cloud environments like AWS and Kubernetes.
- Proficiency with relational databases like PostgreSQL, testing frameworks such as JUnit and Testcontainers, and observability tools like Grafana.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a collaborative mindset to mentor and upskill your teammates.
- A proven ability to lead large projects, manage ambiguity, and maintain high standards for code quality and reliability.
- A passion for innovation and driving impactful solutions within a fast-paced scale-up environment.
Nice to Have
- Expertise in building integrations or working on accounting systems.
Technical Stack
- Kotlin
- PostgreSQL
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- JUnit
- Testcontainers
- Grafana
Team & Environment
You will be part of the Accounting Integrations team, reporting to the Engineering Manager for Accounting Integrations. You will work day-to-day with Accounting Integrations engineers and senior ICs, partner closely with Integration Product Managers, and collaborate cross-team with groups like Ecosystem and Accounting Experience, as well as with external partners.
Benefits & Compensation
- Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!).
- Lunch is on us for your work days - catered meals or a lunch allowance.
- Comprehensive private healthcare (Vitality, Alan or Médis).
- 25 days of holiday + public holidays, with the option to purchase 5 additional days.
- Access to free mental health and well-being support via MyndUp.
- Paid parental leave.
- Compensation: £80,000 - £85,000 in the United Kingdom; €87,000 - €93,000 in Spain or Portugal.
Work Mode
This role offers hybrid and fully remote working options and is open to candidates based in the United Kingdom, Spain, or Portugal.
We embrace and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply - regardless of race/ethnicity, colour, religion, nationality, gender, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, neurodiversity, socio-economic status, culture or beliefs.
