Senior Backend Engineer - Payments

About the role

Pleo is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Bank Infrastructure team. You will design, build, and maintain the payment rails that power Pleo's money movement, ensuring reliable and accurate processing of financial transactions at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain integrations with banks and payment partners across multiple payment schemes.
• Own the reliability and correctness of inbound and outbound payment flows, including reconciliation, settlement, and exception handling.
• Architect systems that are resilient to partner outages, network failures, and edge cases inherent in financial messaging.
• Lead initiatives to improve system observability, fault tolerance, and operational excellence across payment rails.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including compliance, finance operations, and product to evolve Pleo's payment capabilities.
• Participate in code reviews, post-mortems, and provide mentorship to other engineers.
• Proactively address technical debt and guide the team through technical challenges and migrations.

Required skills

• Payment integrations
• Bank APIs
• Financial messaging
• Distributed systems
• Kotlin
• Java
• Microservices
• PostgreSQL
• AWS
• Kubernetes
• Grafana

Nice to have

• AML
• Sanctions screening
• PSD2

Benefits

• Pleo card
• Lunch allowance
• Private healthcare
• 25 days of 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. The company is a driven, progressive team of 850+ people from over 100 nationalities committed to delivering the future of business spending.