Senior Frontend Platform Engineer

The year was 1569, and Gerardus Mercator had just published his “Nova et Aucta Orbis Terrae Descriptio ad Usum Navigantium Emendate Accommodata” or if you don’t speak Latin, the “New and more complete representation of the terrestrial globe properly adapted for use in navigation”.

OK, basically just a map of the world

It hadn’t been an easy task; lots of new ideas had been thrown at him or popped up in his brain along the way; a few people disagreed with him, and were set on sticking to old versions, but he persisted, because he knew it would help sailors navigate the globe and improve the lives of everyone on Earth (which he knew is totally round).

But do you think Mercator was happy with his map? Well yes, he was quite proud of it, but he also knew it could be improved upon. He spent many years after this creating smaller, more detailed maps of more focused regional areas.

And this is the crux of the matter: Always. Be. Improving.

Which is where this job ad actually turns into a job ad, because we at Pleo, are looking for a Frontend Platform Engineer who likes to think of themselves as a little like Mercartor.

As a Senior Engineer in our Frontend Platform team, you’ll be helping build a map for the Frontend at Pleo. You’ll join a small distributed team that designs, evolves, and maintains the Frontend ecosystem that enables our web application development.

We’re looking for engineers with a strong interest in building and owning systems and tools, who love to be at the forefront of all things Frontend, and are not afraid to try new initiatives or to pioneer an innovative new tool.

Our map adapts to the needs of the business and our Frontend engineers, and you’ll need to too, but here are a few projects that we have, are or will be working on:

Enable incremental improvements to our Frontend tooling and technology stack (Using for example tRPC, AWS Lambdas and backend for frontend (BFF) patterns)

Implementing a monorepo setup for our Frontend (using Turborepo)

Test framework and setup

We need someone to join this team of Pleo pioneers who isn’t afraid of the scope of the challenge and who always has our customers’ needs at the forefront of their minds.

What you’ll do (a few more of the specifics):

Advise product teams at Pleo on Frontend architecture and technologies – you may sometimes be embedded in the product teams

Influence and evolve the long term vision of Frontend at Pleo – you’ll innovate and implement at the same time

Improve the development experience of our engineers by enabling fast feedback loops, reliable CI infrastructure, and the promotion of best-practices

Own core functionalities, components, and tools in our Frontend platform that let product teams focus on building great experiences for our customers

Help build and foster a company-wide community of people interested in Frontend engineering

You know your way around

React

GitHub

TypeScript

Monorepos

Frontend testing

Your colleagues say you

Thrives in a remote first environment

Work in English with ease (it's our company language)

Care about quality in all aspects of your work

Somehow manage to stay on top of the ever-changing modern Frontend ecosystem

Are comfortable venturing outside of the Frontend technologies

Have experience solving complex technical challenges at scale

Coach others to help them develop as engineers

Are motivated by the needs of our users (internally and externally)

Would be a person that they would actually like to have a coffee with (virtual or not)

Find a way to debate the merits of server vs client side rendering in the aforementioned

You can discuss pros and cons of tech and architectural choices, e.g. Monorepo vs non-monorepo setup and Micro-frontends vs monolithic frontend

But most importantly

Even if you don’t check every box here, you’re committed to investing in new skills to help you be and do your best at work.

Show me the benefits

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

Lunch is on us - with catering in our Lisbon and Copenhagen  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 (rules may differ depending on location)

For the team you join, we offer remote/ flexible work

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

Wellbeing days - fully paid days off designed for a slower pace, allowing you to take time to recharge and prioritise self-care

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

All of us have a stake in Pleo’s success - ask us about our equity grant scheme

 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

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