Staff Engineer, Spendesk

• 8+ years experience of professional software engineering
• Excellent communication skills, fluent in written and spoken English - it is our business language
• Recent experience in platform/SRE/infrastructure space, working across engineering teams to improve delivery. Experience of SaaS and/or Fintech is a bonus
• Deep technical expertise in infrastructure-as-code, container orchestration and cloud architecture
• Prior experience in backend software development - we’re looking for someone who can collaborate and deliver projects that span across the application & Infrastructure teams
• Pragmatic mindset - ability to adapt to change, navigate ambiguity, take the initiative and proactively solve issues

• The Infrastructure team is responsible for operating and maintaining a scalable, secure and performant cloud platform to support our engineering organisation and growing user base
• We are hiring a Staff Engineer (Infrastructure), who will have a strategic impact across multiple teams and technologies
• We are looking for a leader who can drive forward technical initiatives, both as an individual contributor and by growing other Engineers
• This person will report to the Engineering Manager, Infrastructure
• Design, build and operate production-grade AWS infrastructure within a Fintech environment
• Influence and contribute to the technical direction and roadmap across engineering. Collaborate across teams to deliver high-impact technical outcomes
• Mentor junior Engineers, to actively support their development
• Be an individual contributor to our infrastructure code - raising the bar in terms of reliability, quality, security and cost optimisation
• Take ownership of important components within our infrastructure architecture such as CI/CD, observability, container orchestration, disaster recovery, identity & access management, or cloud networking
• Operational excellence - respond to incidents and participate in the Infrastructure team on-call rotation
• AWS as our cloud platform
• Kubernetes for container orchestration
• AWS RDS, Kafka, Elasticache, Terraform
• Datadog for observability
• Github for source code & CI/CD
• Backend services are developed in NodeJS (Typescript)
• Frontend is React

• As we are an international team, please submit your application and CV in English

• Exciting time to join Spendesk in terms of growth and opportunities
• Equity (everyone is an owner of the company!)
• Flexible and remote-friendly work environment
• The best equipment for your needs (Macbook Pro, secondary screen, ...)
• Internal social events (hackathon, company-wide parties, offsite, ...)
• Brand-new offices in the heart of Paris, Berlin & London
• A purple Spendesk card (for your work purchases)!
• And more!

Total funding: $282.8m

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.