Senior Frontend Platform Engineer

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 a Senior Frontend Platform Engineer to join our Web Core team at Pleo. This role is perfect for an engineer who is interested in supporting other engineers and learning about their most important pain-points by working closely with them. What will you do? In this role, you will be a force multiplier, enabling other engineers to do even better. If you're excited about shaping frontend development and best practices for the engineering organisation, unleashing the potential of internal product engineers, and making your colleagues' lives better through building a strong platform and tooling, then this is the opportunity for you!

What you’ll be doing

As a Senior Frontend Platform Engineer, you will:

• Influence the long-term vision and strategy of frontend development at Pleo.

• Improve the development experience of our engineers by enabling fast feedback loops and reliable CI infrastructure.

• Own core infrastructure, components, and tooling in our frontend platform that let product teams focus on building great experiences for our customers.

• Help build a community of people interested in frontend engineering across the company.

• Mentor, pair with, and support internal engineers.

What you bring

• Deep expertise in React and TypeScript, with experience managing monorepos and CI pipelines and working with testing frameworks such as Vitest.

• Have a pulse on the latest tools and trends in frontend engineering.

• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams.

• Bring a strong problem-solving mindset and thrive on tackling complex challenges at scale.

• Enjoy coaching others and helping them grow as engineers.

• Are motivated by a strong passion to learn and continuously improve.

Who you’ll be working with and reporting to

You’ll report to our Engineering Manager and work closely with product and platform teams across Pleo. Our team of 5 is highly collaborative and dedicated to influencing the long-term vision of frontend at Pleo and improving the developer experience. You’ll also have the chance to partner with other engineers and departments to ensure success and continuous improvement in our processes and solutions.

How you’ll develop in this role

In your first six months at Pleo, you’ll:

• Lead initiatives to improve internal developer experience, observability and frontend scalability.

• Collaborate with product and platform teams to improve processes and systems.

• Grow your expertise in distributed systems, taking on leadership opportunities and mentoring others.

• Contribute to Pleo’s mission by building tools that empower teams.

We’re committed to helping you develop your career, whether that means taking on bigger projects, stepping into leadership, or acquiring new skills in platform engineering.

Please note: We are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role in any of the listed locations you find in the job info.

Salary Range

The annual salary for this position varies based on your location:

• United Kingdom: £86,900 - £89,600

• Spain/Portugal: €87,100 - €92,500

We’re happy to share more about our approach to pay and this range during your first call with us!

Show me the benefits!

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

• Lunch is on us for your work days - enjoy catered meals or receive a lunch allowance based on your local office 🍜

• Comprehensive private healthcare - depending on your location, coverage options include Vitality, Alan or Médis

• We offer 25 days of holiday + your public holidays

• For our Team, we offer both hybrid and fully remote working options

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

• We use MyndUp to give our employees access to free mental health and well-being 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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