Platform Engineering Manager, Spendesk
Company spend management platform
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Company spend management platform
201-500 employees
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201-500 employees
Company mission
To liberate businesses and people to do their best work.
Role
Who you are
- If you’re passionate about building strong engineering cultures, pragmatic AI adoption, and enabling teams to move fast and securely, we’d love to meet you
- 8-12 years in platform/infrastructure roles with increasing leadership scope
- 3-5 years managing a technical team of 5+ engineers
- Proven delivery of complex, multi‑stakeholder platform programs on time and budget
- Experience designing and operating scalable, cloud‑native architectures
- Track record of building engaged, high‑performing teams
- Deep knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), ArgoCD, Terraform, Datadog, and GitHub Actions
- Strong in Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, container orchestration, networking, and security
- Solid grasp of security and privacy frameworks (e.g., ISO 27001, GDPR), observability/SLOs, and disaster recovery
- Experience building standardized CI/CD, paved roads, and developer self‑service
- Earns technical credibility with engineers; clear, structured communication to technical and business audiences
- Strong stakeholder management with objective prioritisation and trade‑off articulation
- Demonstrated coaching, feedback, and career development for engineers
- A platform leader and infrastructure steward who raises operational standards through standardisation, automation, and reliability
- You’re as comfortable coordinating cross‑functional incident response as you are presenting platform strategy and ROI to executives
- You combine deep technical judgment with strong people leadership and a bias to measurable outcomes, owning both the build and the run of the infrastructure that powers Spendesk
Desirable
- Experience in fintech, SaaS, or other regulated industries
- Scale‑up background (50-500 employees) and a platform product mindset (DX focus)
- Comfortable leveraging AI tools to improve developer workflows and speed
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
What the job involves
- Spendesk is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead our Platform team
- This team manages Spendesk’s entire technical infrastructure: the cloud foundation, Kubernetes runtime, CI/CD, networking, security guardrails, and core platform services that every application and service runs on
- Reporting to the CTO, you will define the platform vision and partner with product engineering to improve developer velocity, reliability, security, and cost efficiency across the company
- This is a high‑impact leadership opportunity at the core of Spendesk’s SaaS platform, where your work will directly accelerate innovation and empower every product team
- You’ll shape the systems, automation, and paved roads that drive scale, resilience, and a world‑class developer experience
- Own and deliver an 18‑month platform roadmap with clear ROI, KPIs, and cost targets
- Operate and evolve Spendesk’s core infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), networking, CI/CD, observability, secrets/identity, and security guardrails
- Set platform standards (security baselines, IaC) and provide golden paths and self‑service
- Ensure reliability with SLOs, robust incident management/on‑call, capacity planning, and DR
- Scale CI/CD, GitOps, and release practices to simplify and de‑risk delivery
- Lead FinOps governance, manage budgets, and reduce unit costs
- Build, coach, and hire for the Platform team; align stakeholders with objective prioritisation and clear communication
- Champion developer experience and thoughtful AI adoption
Application process
- As we are an international team, please submit your application and CV in English
Our take
Spendesk is an all-in-one spend management solution created to deliver more control, visibility, and automation to today's finance teams. Top startups like Drivy, Konbini, Dataiku or Deezer are already customers of Spendesk.
With flexible payments, approvals, automated receipt capture and real-time spend insights, the company specifically allows finance teams to decentralise operational spending across the business without any loss of control or visibility. Employees benefit from streamlined expense and invoice management through the Spendesk website and app.
Expense management platforms are becoming an increasingly crowded space, with competitors like Soldo and Expensify also building similar products. Spendesk will have to keep innovating its offerings to stay relevant. But with substantial funding to its name along with a number of strategic partnerships (including Visa), the company is making sure it stays ahead of the competition.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
53% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jan 2022
$116.2m
SERIES C
Jul 2021
$116.2m
SERIES C
Total funding: $300.5m
Company benefits
- Transport reimbursement: Monthly contributions to your transport card (metro, bus or train)
- Offsites and events: Regular team events to exchange with other Spendeskers and get to know each other better
- Annual leave: 28 days per year to rest and relax
- €50 on your Spendesk card: To buy anything you need for work
- For Spendeskers with kids: Generous parental leave & a lot of flexibility for working parents
- Great offices: In the hearts of Berlin, London, Madrid, and Paris
Company HQ
L'Europe, Paris, France
Leadership
Axel Demazy
(CEO)Joined Spendesk in 2024 as CEO. Prior to this, they spent over 4 years at Jellsmack as the COO and General Manager and over 8 years at the Boston Consulting Group as a Partner.
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