Senior Software Engineer, Spendesk
Accounting
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)
- Significant professional experience building and operating production software, ideally in a product-focused environment
- Strong expertise in TypeScript, particularly backend development with Node.js
- A proven track record of designing and delivering reliable, scalable and maintainable systems
- Strong architectural knowledge, including experience with microservices, domain modelling, event-driven systems and data consistency
- Experience leading complex technical initiatives from discovery through production
- The ability to make sound technical decisions and communicate trade-offs clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- A high degree of autonomy, ownership and influence beyond direct implementation
- Experience mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards within a team or organisation
- A strong product mindset and the ability to understand complex business and financial workflows
What the job involves
- We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our Accounting squad, with the role open in London, Paris or Barcelona
- You will help shape the technical direction of the squad, lead complex initiatives and contribute to building reliable financial systems that support accurate bookkeeping and month-end close
- The Accounting squad is responsible for making sure that spend data is correctly prepared, enriched, coded and reconciled before it reaches accounting systems. We build the workflows and automations that turn complex financial operations into reliable, traceable and efficient processes for finance teams
- You will work closely with Product, Design, Accounting specialists and other Engineering teams to solve complex domain problems and deliver robust systems
- You will be expected to contribute beyond implementation by shaping architecture, clarifying technical trade-offs, raising engineering standards and helping the squad make sound long-term decisions
- Our stack:
- TypeScript
- Node.js for backend and banking applications
- React on the frontend
- PostgreSQL for data storage; Redis, SQS, and Kafka for jobs and queues
- Terraform to define our infrastructure
- Kubernetes, Lambdas, and Step Functions to run our applications
- AWS as our cloud provider
- GitHub Actions for CI
- Lead the design and development of reliable systems for bookkeeping preparation, payables and payment workflows
- Build rules-based automation for payable and expense coding
- Improve how spend data is enriched, classified, validated and reconciled
- Contribute to supplier and receipt management capabilities
- Build clear accounting visibility and auditability for Finance teams
- Design robust workflows that handle complex financial rules, exceptions and reconciliation scenarios
- Define and evolve scalable architectures, domain boundaries and integration patterns
- Own technical initiatives from discovery and architecture through implementation, production rollout and continuous improvement
- Make pragmatic decisions around data consistency, reliability, observability and maintainability
- Work closely with Product, Design, Accounting and Operations stakeholders to translate complex business requirements into effective solutions
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers
- Help shape engineering practices, architectural standards and the technical roadmap of the squad
- Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly and help the team adopt effective engineering workflows
- Work on a critical product area where correctness, reliability and traceability directly matter to customers
- Solve complex problems at the intersection of software engineering, finance and accounting
- Build systems that support the full journey from company spend to accurate bookkeeping and financial close
- Work on automation, reconciliation and financial data quality at scale
- Have a direct impact on how Finance teams save time, reduce manual work and trust their financial data
- Operate with a high level of autonomy and help shape the technical direction of the squad
- Contribute at a level close to Tech Lead or Staff Engineer, while remaining hands-on
- Collaborate with domain experts and influence product and architectural decisions across the organisation
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
$112.2m
SERIES C
Jul 2021
$112.2m
SERIES C
Total funding: $292.1m
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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