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 • Deliver APIs for internal dashboards, customer-facing features, and third-party tools such as Fivetran connectors • Design and optimise Postgres and future OLAP read models, indexes, and caching strategies • Build integrations with Kotlin-based product backend services • Own monitoring, incident response, reliability, performance, and SLOs for customer-facing services • Define contracts between ingestion/aggregation systems and the serving database with Data Engineers • Secure APIs using industry-standard authentication and authorization protocols • 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 • Establish the Reporting API's production version, contracts, versioning, SLOs, tenant isolation, and security model

🎯 Requirements

• Strong backend engineering experience building and owning reporting and analytics API services and serving-layer infrastructure • Experience with reliability, latency, and SLOs • Experience owning API boundary layers, including endpoint design, versioning, contract stability, and protecting consumers from raw data sources • Expertise in read-heavy systems, relational database optimisation, indexing, materialised views, caching, and API performance tuning • Strong SQL querying skills and database fundamentals across SQL and non-SQL systems • Deep expertise in Kafka • Deep experience with a JVM-based language; Pleo's product backend is Kotlin-based • AWS or GCP and Kubernetes experience, including configuring, deploying, and operating containerised applications in a Kubernetes environment • Experience working between data systems and product backend services • Ability to move quickly and independently in a hands-on delivery role • Experience in fintech, payments, or other regulated product environments • Valid right to work in the chosen country • English-language application and ability to use English as the company language • No visa sponsorship available

🏖️ Benefits

• Your own Pleo card • Catered meals or a lunch allowance for work days • Comprehensive private healthcare, with coverage options 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