Are you a visionary and experienced software engineer with a passion for authentication and authorization? Are you excited about things like identity and access management (IAM), permissions, access tokens, multi-factor authentication (MFA) and single sign-on (SSO)? Do you thrive on tackling complex technical challenges and building scalable systems? If this sounds like you, Pleo needs your expertise!

We are about to create a dedicated auth team that rethinks and renews how authentication and authorization are handled in Pleo with the goal to ensure the security and integrity of our systems. We intend to follow open industry standards and use third party providers. You’ll be working closely with product teams to make auth as easy to use as possible, but also with platform teams like Backend Core that provide common libraries and internal frameworks as well as with the Security team.

Why you should apply:

As a Staff Engineer at Pleo, you won't just solve problems; you'll redefine how we do things. We're searching for an engineering powerhouse with a product-focused mindset who is eager to mentor, innovate, and drive strategic vision.

In this role, you'll be a force multiplier—elevating the team's performance and delivering impactful solutions that ripple across the entire credit offering. You'll act as the glue between where are and where we want to be, steering the technical direction and empowering everyone to excel.

What you'll do:

Architectural Ownership: Take charge of critical system components.
Visionary Thinking: Articulate the 'why' behind each technical decision with clarity and passion.
Continuous Innovation: Bring fresh ideas and strategic trade-offs rooted in a deep understanding of our users.
Iterative Development: Build features incrementally with a focus on early feedback and continuous improvement.
Mentorship: Foster a culture of innovation and collaboration through technical coaching and inclusion.

What success looks like:

Scalable Infrastructure: More performance, fewer bugs.
Testing Excellence: Catch those pesky bugs before our users do.
Reliable Delivery: Ensure consistent, timely delivery that meets user and stakeholders needs.
Innovative Solutions: Identify creative and scalable technology solutions that make AuthN and AuthZ surprisingly easy for our internal product teams.
Motivated Team: Contribute towards forming a high-performing, cohesive team through mentorship and embodying our team culture of curiosity, humility and kindness.

You know your way around:

Cloud environments / distributed systems / microservices (AWS, Google Cloud, Kubernetes)
Architecting scalable solutions and API design
Authentication & authorisation for APIs
Server-side languages (we mainly use Kotlin and TypeScript)
Testing frameworks, observability, and monitoring
Optional but beneficial: 3rd party authentication providers

Your colleagues would say you are:

An outstanding communicator who can clearly share ideas
Perpetually curious, always learning new technologies and methodologies
A dedicated coach for fellow engineers, helping them grow
A proponent of thorough code review processes and testing
A key contributor to designing holistic solutions, not just writing code
Someone they’d enjoy having a coffee with
Naturally inclined to solve intricate problems and drive towards effective solutions

Salary Offered:
The annual salary for this position will be 101k EUR. We’re happy to share more about our approach to pay and this range during your first call with us!

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Why join us?

Working at Pleo means you're working on something very exciting: the future of work. Our mission is to help every company go beyond the books. Pleo itself means ‘more than you’d expect’, and it’s been the secret to our success over the last 8 years. So it’s only fitting that we’d pass this philosophy onto our customers to help them make the most of their finances.

We think company spending should be delegated to all employees and teams, that it should be as automated as possible, and that it should drive a culture of responsible spending. Finance teams shouldn’t be siloed from the rest of the organisation – they should work in unity with marketing, sales, IT and everyone else.

Speaking of working in unity, our values tell the story of how we work at Pleo. We have four core values, the first of which is ‘champion the customer’, which means we address real pain points that businesses face. Next up is ‘succeed as a team’, which highlights how our strength lies in our diversity and trust in each other. We also ‘make it happen’ by taking bold decisions and following through to deliver results. Last but not least, we ‘build to scale’, creating lasting solutions that address today’s challenges and anticipate tomorrow’s needs.

So, in a nutshell, that's Pleo. Today we are a 850+ team, from over 100 nations, sitting in our Copenhagen HQ, London, Stockholm, Berlin, Madrid, Montreal and Lisbon offices —and quite a few full-time remotes in 35 other countries! Being HQ'd out of Copenhagen means we're inspired by things like a good work-life balance. If you don't work in the office with us, we'll help you set up the best remote setup possible and make sure you still have time to connect with your team.

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 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 😊
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Staff Engineer

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Pleo

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