Staff Engineer

Summary

Join Pleo as a Staff Engineer and become a technical leader, contributing to a sustainable ecosystem and driving incremental changes. You will be responsible for designing and building new microservices, managing complex migrations, and proactively identifying and resolving problems. As a Staff Engineer, you will mentor other engineers, set high standards for code quality, and help the team navigate ambiguity. Pleo values a strong culture, transparency, and work-life balance. The role requires expertise in server-side languages (Kotlin preferred), cloud environments, and various development tools. Pleo offers a dynamic work environment and the opportunity to work on exciting projects.

Requirements

• Be an expert in server-side languages
• Know your way around server-side languages (we mostly use Kotlin, with few services in TypeScript)
• Know your way around cloud environments/distributed systems/microservices (AWS, Google Cloud, Kubernetes)
• Know your way around building a scalable platform, using both API First Design and Messaging Architecture (Kafka)
• Know your way around Test Driven Development and Domain Driven Design
• Know your way around relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL)
• Know your way around testing frameworks (Cypress, JUnit, Testcontainers)
• Know your way around observability and monitoring (Grafana)
• Know your way around DevOps culture and tools (GitHub Actions, Gradle, Terraform)

Responsibilities

• Drive the detailed, highly complex work that needs to be done to have a sustainable ecosystem and drive the incremental changes needed to do this work
• Give insightful PR reviews
• Be a trusted technical partner to teammates
• Know when/how to prioritize tech debt
• Proactively jump into P1/P2 incidents
• Lead post-mortems
• Upskill and unblock teams around you
• Take the lead on large projects (new product launches, managing tricky migrations, designing and building new microservices or components)
• Find and fix problems before they are known
• Be a steady hand to help the team navigate ambiguity and manage technical change
• Set the standard for Pleo Engineering, not just with your code but in how you work and the culture you promote
• Work in English with ease
• Care passionately about our customers and how technology can enable helping them
• Never stop being curious and love learning about new languages/frameworks/working styles
• Successfully navigate and communicate to drive the delivery of large initiatives with multidisciplinary stakeholders
• Understand industry trends and work to ensure Pleo’s technical choices keep us at the forefront
• Contribute to internal and external knowledge that drives engineering productivity
• Drive changes to improve tech health across the company
• Write code that other people want to copy and paste because it’s so well organized, documented, easily-understood, and flexible
• Ensure a high bar for quality and reliability at Pleo
• Coach others to help them develop as engineers
• Advocate for a more thorough code review process
• Help to design the overall solution
• Be sought after for help in solving challenging problems
• Be a force multiplier - your work enables other engineers to do be even better
• Raise and describe technical debt faced by Pleo. And then able to propose a solution or path forward

Preferred Qualifications

Proficiency in Kotlin

Benefits

• Good work-life balance
• Remote work options