Staff Engineer

at Pleo
  • $111k-$117k
  • Remote - Portugal, Spain

Remote

Software Development

Mid-level

Job description

Are you a visionary engineer with a passion for product development? Do you thrive on tackling complex technical challenges and building scalable systems? If this sounds like you, Pleo’s Credit Core team needs your expertise!

Why you should apply:

As a Staff Engineer at Pleo, you won’t just solve problems; you’ll redefine how we do things. We’re searching for an engineering powerhouse with a product-focused mindset who is eager to mentor, innovate, and drive strategic vision.

In this role, you’ll be a force multiplier—elevating the team’s performance and delivering impactful solutions that ripple across the entire credit offering. You’ll act as the glue between where are and where we want to be, steering the technical direction and empowering everyone to excel.

What you’ll do:

  • Architectural Ownership: Take charge of critical system components.
  • Visionary Thinking: Articulate the ‘why’ behind each technical decision with clarity and passion.
  • Continuous Innovation: Bring fresh ideas and strategic trade-offs rooted in a deep understanding of our users.
  • Iterative Development: Build features incrementally with a focus on early feedback and continuous improvement.
  • Mentorship: Foster a culture of innovation and collaboration through technical coaching and inclusion.

What success looks like:

  • Scalable Infrastructure: More performance, fewer bugs.
  • Testing Excellence: Catch those pesky bugs before our users do.
  • Reliable Delivery: Ensure consistent, timely delivery that meets user and stakeholders needs.
  • Innovative Solutions: Identify creative and scalable technology solutions that make Cash Management surprisingly easy for Pleo’s Credit customers.
  • Motivated Team: Contribute towards forming a high-performing, cohesive team through mentorship and embodying our team culture of curiosity, humility and kindness.

You know your way around:

  • Cloud environments / distributed systems / microservices (AWS, Google Cloud, Kubernetes)
  • Architecting scalable solutions and API design
  • Authentication & authorisation for APIs
  • Server-side languages (we mainly use Kotlin and TypeScript)
  • Testing frameworks, observability, and monitoring
  • Credit or other payments-related systems

Your colleagues would say you are:

  • An outstanding communicator who can clearly share ideas
  • Perpetually curious, always learning new technologies and methodologies
  • A dedicated coach for fellow engineers, helping them grow
  • A proponent of thorough code review processes and testing
  • A key contributor to designing holistic solutions, not just writing code
  • Someone they’d enjoy having a coffee with
  • Naturally inclined to solve intricate problems and drive towards effective solutions

Show me the benefits!

  • Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!)
  • Lunch is on us - with catering in our Lisbon,  or a monthly lunch allowance paid directly together with  your salary in other markets 🍜
  • Private health insurance to ensure you’re fit in body and mind to do your best work
  • We offer 25 days of holiday + your public holidays
  • For our Engineering team we offer fully remote options of work - If you would like to work from the office that is fine too.
  • Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrifice
  • Wellbeing days - fully paid days off designed for a slower pace, allowing you to take time to recharge and prioritise self-care
  • We’re trialling MyndUp to give our employees access to free mental health and wellbeing support with great success so far  ❤️‍🩹
  • Access to LinkedIn Learning - acquire new skills, stay abreast of industry trends and fuel your personal and professional development continuously
  • Paid parental leave - we want to make sure that we’re supportive of families and help you feel that you don’t have to compromise your family due to work 👶

Salary Offered:

The annual salary for this position will be 101k EUR - 107 EUR. We’re happy to share more about our approach to pay and this range during your first call with us!

Why join us?

Working at Pleo means you’re working on something very exciting: the future of work. Our mission is to help every company go beyond the books. Pleo itself means ‘more than you’d expect’, and it’s been the secret to our success over the last 8 years. So it’s only fitting that we’d pass this philosophy onto our customers to help them make the most of their finances.

We think company spending should be delegated to all employees and teams, that it should be as automated as possible, and that it should drive a culture of responsible spending. Finance teams shouldn’t be siloed from the rest of the organisation – they should work in unity with marketing, sales, IT and everyone else.

Speaking of working in unity, our values tell the story of how we work at Pleo. We have four core values, the first of which is ‘champion the customer’, which means we address real pain points that businesses face. Next up is ‘succeed as a team’, which highlights how our strength lies in our diversity and trust in each other. We also ‘make it happen’ by taking bold decisions and following through to deliver results. Last but not least, we ‘build to scale’, creating lasting solutions that address today’s challenges and anticipate tomorrow’s needs.

So, in a nutshell, that’s Pleo. Today we are a 850+ team, from over 100 nations, sitting in our Copenhagen HQ, London, Stockholm, Berlin, Madrid, Montreal and Lisbon offices —and quite a few full-time remotes in 35 other countries! Being HQ’d out of Copenhagen means we’re inspired by things like a good work-life balance. If you don’t work in the office with us, we’ll help you set up the best remote setup possible and make sure you still have time to connect with your team.

About your application

  • Please submit your application in English; it’s our company language so you’ll be speaking lots of it if you join 💕
  • We treat all candidates equally: If you are interested please apply through our application system - any correspondence should come from there! Our lovely support isn’t able to pass on any calls/ emails our way - and this makes sure that the candidate experience is smooth and fair to everyone 😊
  • We’re on a mission to make everyone feel valued at work. That’s only achievable if our team reflects the diversity of the world around us - and that starts with you, hitting apply, even if you are worried you might not tick all the boxes! 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.
  • When you submit an application we process your personal data as a data processor. Find out more about how your data is used in the FAQs section at the bottom of our jobs page.
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