Software Engineer, Spendesk
Travel & Expenses
Company spend management platform
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Company spend management platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To liberate businesses and people to do their best work.
Role
Who you are
- Fluency in written and spoken English (our business language)
- 5+ years of experience in software development (+2 years for Senior Engineer positions)
- Strong backend generalist, comfortable with TypeScript / Node.js (or equivalent, with willingness to ramp up)
- Experience or solid interest in event-driven architecture (Kafka, async patterns, message queues)
- Ability to pragmatically navigate both microservices and monoliths
- Production-minded: you care about testing, observability, and reliability
- Ability to translate business and product concepts into technical solutions
- Enthusiasm for working in a fast-paced environment, with a focus on continuous growth and craft mastery
- Strong customer-centric mindset and alignment with Spendesk's core values
- Bonus: experience with payment systems, booking APIs, or travel tech
What the job involves
- We are looking for a talented Software Engineer to join our Product, Design, and Engineering organization and help shape the future of spend management
- You'll be part of the Travel & Expenses squad, a ~12-person team building two complementary product lines: Spendesk Travel (our corporate travel booking platform, currently scaling from Beta to GA) and our Expense management product (mileage, per diem, expense claims)
- Travel is a strategic company bet - you'd be joining at a pivotal moment, with real greenfield architecture decisions ahead alongside pragmatic feature delivery on a mature platform
- As a Software Engineer, you will take ownership of both functional and technical topics. You will have the opportunity to work across the entire feature lifecycle, including specification, technical design, development, testing, documentation, and maintenance
- Our stack:
- TypeScript / Node.js for backend services and banking applications
- Fastify and Prisma on our backend microservice
- PostgreSQL for data storage; Kafka, Redis, and SQS for event-driven patterns and queues
- React on the frontend; Swift (iOS) and Kotlin (Android) on mobile
- Terraform, Kubernetes, Lambdas, and Step Functions to run our infrastructure
- AWS as our cloud provider; Datadog, Sentry, and Prometheus for observability
- GitHub Actions for CI
- Build and own backend features across a modern TypeScript microservice (hexagonal architecture, event-driven patterns) and our core expense platform
- Design and implement reliable, observable systems with a production-first mindset (testing, monitoring, incident response)
- Collaborate with PM, EM, Tech Lead, and mobile/frontend engineers to ship features across Web, iOS, and Android
- Contribute to greenfield architecture decisions on the Travel platform (event sourcing, async patterns, third-party integrations)
- Navigate and incrementally improve a legacy monolith on the Expenses side with pragmatism
- Participate in the team's on-call rotation and contribute to operational excellence
- Mentor fellow engineers and contribute to the team's technical culture
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.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
53% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jan 2022
$117.1m
SERIES C
Jul 2021
$117.1m
SERIES C
Total funding: $302.4m
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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