Staff Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Pleo's Payments group as a Staff Engineer and play a key role in shaping our platform. You will design, build, and manage a payments platform transforming how users, partners, and the team work. This leadership role emphasizes fostering excellence through code and culture, promoting trust, transparency, and inclusivity. Responsibilities include problem-solving across teams, coaching engineers, and promoting features and processes. Coding will comprise 30-50% of your time. Pleo offers a collaborative and supportive environment.

Requirements

• Solid experience with cloud environments / distributed systems / microservices (AWS, Google Cloud, Kubernetes)
• Experience in architecting and building maintainable and scalable solutions
• Experience with Authentication & Authorization for APIs
• Understanding of the role and responsibility of an API Gateway
• Experience with server-side languages (Kotlin and TypeScript preferred)
• Experience with testing frameworks (Cypress, JUnit, Testcontainers) and principles
• Experience with observability and monitoring (Grafana)

Responsibilities

• Discover and solve intricate problems, spanning across teams and domains, or even across the entire organization
• Coach and mentor other engineers
• Promote and explain the features and processes throughout the organization

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with or eagerness to learn new programming languages like Go
• A curious mindset and a love for learning about new languages, principles, and working styles
• Ability to coach others on the team to help them develop as engineers
• Advocating for a more thorough code review process and performing meaningful and thorough code reviews
• Ability to be a key player in designing the overall solution, not just writing code
• Ability to foster a collaborative and supportive environment where colleagues feel comfortable sharing ideas and working together
• Ability to break down complex problems, gather input and align on tradeoffs while driving towards a solution that fits the current context

Benefits

• Pleo card (no out-of-pocket spending)
• Catered lunches or lunch allowance
• Comprehensive private healthcare (Vitality, Alan, or Médis depending on location)
• 25 days of holiday + public holidays
• Hybrid and fully remote working options
• Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through salary sacrifice
• Access to MyndUp for mental health and well-being support
• Access to LinkedIn Learning for professional development
• Paid parental leave