Engineering Manager - Employee Spend & Mobile

Messy spend management is tricky business. And tedious processes are a lose-lose situation for all involved, not just finance. At Pleo, we're changing that. We build spend solutions that make managing money seamless, empowering, and surprisingly effective for finance teams and employees alike—with a vision to help all businesses ‘go beyond’.

The word ‘Pleo’ actually means ‘more than you’d expect’, and living by that mantra has been the secret to our success over the last 10 years.

Now, we’re at a pivotal moment in our journey; every move we make has a direct impact on our 40,000+ customers, our business, and our collective success. We need people who take pride in uncovering customer needs, who turn complex problems into simple solutions, challenge the way things are done (respectfully), and always aim high. With great ambitions driving us forward, we can’t say we’ve got this whole thing figured out. And frankly, that’s half the fun! What we can say is that we’re a driven, progressive, and, importantly, a kind bunch of 850+ people from over 100 nationalities, all committed to delivering the future of business spending, together.

About the role

We're looking for an Engineering Manager to join our Employee Spend & Mobile Segment at Pleo. This role places you at the forefront of advancing our technical excellence and innovation. You will work with one or two of our squads with up to 12 direct reports, and in close collaboration with Product Manager (PM) and Designer.

You’ll report to our segment’s engineering lead and, you will head-up and champion our mobile app initiatives and Pleo end user features and improvements. You’ll also have the chance to partner with teams across Pleo to ensure success.

Your leadership style

• We always say that we hire anyone who we would want to be our boss, irrespective of the role they’re in (from Customer Support student workers to co-founders!). That should be the feeling we’re left with when any of us speak to you.

• We are looking for someone who cares deeply about individuals as human beings - we focus on authentic leadership and are actively trying to develop ourselves in this space.

• We hope that you will be able to show vulnerability, radical transparency, and a listening ear to those around you.

• We truly believe that with this type of style you and your team will set an incredible path forward - and that path will get us to incredible places. We want an engineering manager whose team will be standing on the top of the mountain with them - celebrating together and not left behind exhausted on the path below.

• We want you to help your team(s) through the journey of becoming high-performing, building trust among the members in the team, and helping them fine-tune their processes.

What you’ll be doing

As an Engineering Manager, you will:

• Work closely with the Product Manager and Designer to set a vision and direction for the team or group of product teams.

• Directly manage Engineers (and Tech Lead).

• Drive a customer-centric & solution-oriented mindset.

• Continuously improve the environment and processes for how we build our product.

• Align technology direction within your team(s), with other teams as well as with the overall technology direction of the company.

• Represent engineering in key initiatives and projects within the segment or across the company and ensure they get delivered.

• Contribute to goal setting and hold a high standard in people, delivery, and

What you bring

You’ll thrive in this role if you have:

• Strong background with Mobile Application Development, as a senior engineer or higher, working with hybrid React Native, iOS and Android Native applications.

• You are comfortable stepping into technical discussions or taking important stakeholder meetings to remove roadblocks allowing the team to move forward.

• Have a passion for people management. You work to see your team and individuals growing and shipping great software

• Have previous experience managing teams

• You like to work with cross-functional teams and other stakeholders to align engineering functions with product & business direction and goals.

• You are a strong communicator, with both technical and commercial stakeholders.

• You’re a technologist at heart and enjoy working closely with relevant stakeholders from across the business.

• Bonus if you have hands-on experience with Domain Driven Design and/or Event Driven Architecture

Show me the benefits!

• Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!)

• Lunch is on us - with catering in our Lisbon, Copenhagen and London offices 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

• Flexibility/remote working options

• Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrifice

• 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 👶

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 team 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 can only achieve our goals 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.

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