Senior Backend Engineer, Data Serving

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🌐 United Kingdom, Denmark, +5 more countries – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Pleo

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2015

🤝 B2B

☁️ SaaS

💳 Fintech

💰 $42.9M Debt Financing - Pleo on 2024-04

B2B • SaaS • Fintech

Pleo is a spend-management platform for businesses that provides company cards, automated expense management and configurable spend controls. Its product messaging highlights AI-powered reviews, card limits, approval flows and other tools to manage corporate spending for small, medium and enterprise customers. Pleo is delivered as software to help finance teams control, track and automate business expenses and card usage.

📋 Description

• Build and own the Data API boundary with clean, versioned, performant endpoints for internal dashboards, customer-facing features, and third-party tools • Design and optimise read models, indexes, and caching strategies in PostgreSQL and future OLAP stores • Build reliable integrations with Kotlin-based product backend services • Own service reliability and performance, including monitoring, incident response, and SLOs • Define contracts between ingestion/aggregation systems and the serving database with Data Engineers • Secure APIs with industry-standard authentication and authorisation protocols in partnership with the Authorization team • Build a near-real-time data aggregation service across Pleo services • Design metadata, lineage, and governance capabilities • Own access control and permission management, including row- and column-level access and audit trails • Report to the Senior Manager of Data & AI Products and collaborate with Data Engineers, Product Managers, Staff Data Platform Engineering, GenAI Platform, and Data Infrastructure teams • Ship the first production version of the Reporting API and establish access control, tenant isolation, security, performance, reliability, and SLO benchmarks

🎯 Requirements

• Strong backend engineering experience building and owning reporting and analytics API services and serving-layer infrastructure • Experience owning API boundary layers, including endpoint design, versioning, contract stability, and protecting consumers from raw data sources • Strong expertise in read-heavy systems, relational database optimisation, indexing, materialised views, caching, and API performance tuning • Solid SQL and non-SQL database fundamentals and strong SQL querying skills • Deep expertise in Kafka • Deep experience with a JVM-based language; Pleo’s product backend is Kotlin-based • AWS or GCP experience with Kubernetes • Familiarity with configuring, deploying, and operating containerised applications in a Kubernetes environment • Experience at the boundary between data systems and product backend services • Ability to move quickly and work independently in a hands-on delivery role • Experience in fintech, payments, or other regulated product environments • English-language application required • Must be physically based in the selected country with a valid right to work • Visa sponsorship is not available

🏖️ Benefits

• Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!) • Lunch is provided on work days through catered meals or a local-office lunch allowance • Comprehensive private healthcare, with coverage options including Vitality, Alan or Médis depending on location • 25 days of annual leave plus public holidays • Hybrid and fully remote working options • Free mental health and well-being support through MyndUp • Paid parental leave