Engineering Manager - Authentication & Authorisation

About the role

The Engineering Manager will lead the Authentication and Authorisation team, overseeing the strategy, delivery, and outcomes for Pleo's product identity and access management. This role involves managing a team of 6-10 software engineers while driving the migration between legacy SMB services and a new Enterprise architecture. The successful candidate will ensure high security, compliance, and performance while fostering a high-performing team environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the vision, strategy and execution roadmap for identity, authentication and authorisation across SMB and Enterprise.
• Drive delivery and outcomes for the Authentication & Authorisation team, ensuring we build secure, scalable systems the whole platform can rely on.
• Successfully roll out a new identity platform across our Enterprise offerings.
• Define and execute a pragmatic migration strategy between the SMB legacy service and the Enterprise architecture.
• Update legacy auth services, reducing risk and technical debt while maintaining high security, compliance, performance and trust.
• Partner closely with Product, Security, Compliance and Core Platform teams to align priorities, unblock dependencies and keep delivery moving.
• Stay close to the technology and architecture, stepping into technical discussions to guide the team through complex trade-offs.
• Continuously improve how we build software - strengthening operational excellence, quality and ways of working.
• Hire, coach and grow a high-performing team, helping people develop while building trust and strong team dynamics.

Required skills

• Engineering Management
• People leadership
• Authentication
• Authorisation
• OAuth
• SAML
• OIDC
• Amazon Cognito
• Auth0
• Stytch
• Stakeholder management

Nice to have

• Software architecture
• Staff-level engineering
• Security-sensitive domains
• Compliance-sensitive domains
• Team scaling

Benefits

• Pleo card
• Lunch allowance
• Private healthcare
• 25 days holiday
• Mental health support
• Paid parental leave

About the Company

Pleo builds spend solutions that make managing money seamless, empowering, and effective for finance teams and employees. With over 850 people from more than 100 nationalities, the company is committed to delivering the future of business spending.