Head of Infrastructure Engineering, Spendesk
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Company spend management platform
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Company spend management platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To liberate businesses and people to do their best work.
Role
Who you are
- An expert in modern infrastructure technology with experience in high-availability cloud platforms for SAAS companies
- Experience with our specific tech stack is preferred
- Understanding of regulatory frameworks like GDPR, ISO27k etc
- An advocate for AI technologies and constantly stays up to date with modern technologies
- Solid understanding of networking, storage, security, containerization and orchestration
- Experience with DevOps practices and tools (CI/CD, automation), and creation of developer golden paths
- Track record resource planning and roadmap creating experience
- Experience managing and growing a distributed engineering team
- Strategic thinking and execution ability, with a strong work ethic and attention to detail
- Strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills
- Pragmatic mindset; able to balance technical correctness with business priorities
- Takes initiative, identifies problems, and proactively proposes solutions, and is comfortable making key decisions
- Powerful collaborator who works well across departments
What the job involves
- The Infrastructure team is responsible for operating, maintaining and continuously improving our scalable, robust, secure and performant platform to support both our growing customer base and our engineering organization
- Our aim is to enable and empower engineers to self-serve and deliver value to our customers in a fast, safe, and autonomous manner
- This role leads the team of infrastructure engineers, to drive innovation in infrastructure processes, focused on operational excellence
- This is a role that should lead how we can use AI technology to improve speed and the developer experience
- Develop and implement infrastructure strategies and solutions, including networks, cloud services, databases, and storage systems, ensuring systems are scalable, secure and compliant, efficient, and performant
- From planning and discovery, through to delivery and support - utilizing agile processes and practices. The Infrastructure team has its own ambitious roadmap, but we also collaborate closely with Engineering squads to deliver complex transversal initiatives, and look at how we can constantly improve the developer experience
- Lead incident response efforts, overseeing the investigation and resolution of infrastructure-related issues, including following up of post-mortem actions and championing this across the business. This person is the lead for our engineering on-call process we have in place across our company
- Manage budget and resources for infrastructure projects and operational environments, ensuring efficient utilization while staying within budget constraints and leading our cloud cost optimization strategy
- Ensuring the Platform is available for both customers and engineers, SLAs/SLOs are met, as well as identifying bottlenecks which might impede scaling in the future. This will include implementation of disaster recovery projects
- Management and growth of engineers – through 1:1s, performance reviews and objectives, it is important for all that we are able to deliver work of a high standard, in a sustainable manner, and engineers are able to learn, develop and grow their skills and career
- Collaborate closely with other engineering teams, product managers, and business leaders to align infrastructure capabilities with business needs and growth
- Our stack:
- AWS as our cloud compute platform
- Kubernetes (EKS) for container runtime and orchestration
- RDS (PostgreSQL, MySQL), Kafka, Redis
- Terraform for infrastructure as code
- Lambda and Step Functions
- Datadog for Observability
- Github actions for CICD
- Frontend is React
- Backend services are developed in NodeJS (TypeScript)
Salary benchmarks
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
$114.8m
SERIES C
Jul 2021
$114.8m
SERIES C
Total funding: $297.5m
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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