People Tech Engineer
We are currently searching for a People Tech Engineer to join our team, this role is pivotal in transforming our workplace into a more efficient, engaging, and productive environment. By integrating technical solutions, you will drive the digital transformation of our People Operations, making them more agile and responsive to the needs of our employees.
Requirements
- Strong knowledge and ability to tackle problems from an automation-first approach at the low level. That means being able to handle APIs, webhooks and the business logic needed stitch them together whether that’s in no/low-code tooling or code.
- Ability and confidence to reason about processes at a high level. E.g. understanding why a process should be structured one way over another and challenging others in the business where they might be missing context you can provide on the technical angle to People problems.
- Ability to thrive in ambiguous environments with a high level of autonomy. We believe in allowing Pleoers the space and agency to shine.
- A great match with our TechOps operating principles. These are explained in the “Specialisation Details” section but for a rough outline:
- Transparency by default - Comfortable and capable with working transparently and in the open
- Humans are our most precious asset - An automation-first mindset, with an ambitious approach to reducing manual workload
- First principles first - Capable of breaking down problems and challenging presumptions before building a clear path based on well-understood reasoning
- Immediate solves, eventual growth - Adept at both working iteratively whilst also maintaining a clear focus on long-term strategic goals and best-practice approaches
Problems you’ll be solving
Technical Strategy - We’re at an inflection point in the People area where we’re consciously taking a step back and rethinking our approach to the systems and processes we maintain. We’re looking for someone capable and excited about rethinking People data and systems from the ground up, with a view to building a world-class output.
Implementation - This is not a management position and alongside guiding the strategy there’s an expectation you can also lead by example, get your hands dirty and demonstrate how best we build the better future we’re aiming to build together. That might mean all manner of things from helping write some very basic microservices to working on standing up some dashboards reporting on important data. It’s not critical you know how to do all these things but you ideally understand what they are and are confident enough to try your hand at learning alongside the rest of the team.
Integrations with third-party systems - We work with a lot of existing systems like HR systems, application tracking systems and others. The core part of the role is moving data automatically and cleanly between these systems. That means interacting with lots of APIs and reading lots of JSON plus understanding the optimal architecture to get systems that might not natively interact to talk to each other. Also understanding when to get your toolbox out vs buy someone else’s work.
Team Details
This role is part of the Platform & Services team. To give an overview on this team:
- This team operates as part of the People domain, where the focus is on the people journey and ensuring all Pleoers have the tools and processes they need to succeed throughout their time interacting with Pleo
- The Platform & Services team is the “engine” that runs the People domain. It’s where the everyday administration and automation of the people processes sit. Where other areas like Talent or People Partners might deal with the problems as they come in, P&S is where the changes happen. Think:
- Maintaining the HRIS and the People data within it
- Streamlining processes like onboarding and offboarding to make sure they’re compliant whilst being as clear and automated as possible for everyone involved
- Being the custodians and arbiters of People data across nearly all systems in the company, ensuring data integrity, security and accuracy in our distributed software stack
- The team itself consists currently of 2 people in similar Tech roles to what is advertised here. Alongside this is 5 operational teammates who handle the large volume of incoming manual requests and 1 execution lead who helps manage the team as a whole.
Show me the benefits!
- Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!)
- Lunch is on us - with catering in our Lisbon, Copenhagen and London offices or a monthly lunch allowance paid directly together with your salary in other markets 🍜
- Private health insurance to ensure you’re fit in body and mind to do your best work
- Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrifice
- Wellbeing days - fully paid days off designed for a slower pace, allowing you to take time to recharge and prioritise self-care
- We’re trialling MyndUp to give our employees access to free mental health and wellbeing support with great success so far ❤️🩹
- Access to LinkedIn Learning - acquire new skills, stay abreast of industry trends and fuel your personal and professional development continuously
- Paid parental leave - we want to make sure that we're supportive of families and help you feel that you don't have to compromise your family due to work 👶
- All of us have a stake in Pleo’s success - ask us about our equity grant scheme
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Why join us?
Working at Pleo means you're working on something very exciting: the future of work. Our mission is to help every company go beyond the books. Pleo itself means ‘more than you’d expect’, and it’s been the secret to our success over the last 8 years. So it’s only fitting that we’d pass this philosophy onto our customers to help them make the most of their finances.
We think company spending should be delegated to all employees and teams, that it should be as automated as possible, and that it should drive a culture of responsible spending. Finance teams shouldn’t be siloed from the rest of the organisation – they should work in unity with marketing, sales, IT and everyone else.
Speaking of working in unity, our values tell the story of how we work at Pleo. We have four core values, the first of which is ‘champion the customer’, which means we address real pain points that businesses face. Next up is ‘succeed as a team’, which highlights how our strength lies in our diversity and trust in each other. We also ‘make it happen’ by taking bold decisions and following through to deliver results. Last but not least, we ‘build to scale’, creating lasting solutions that address today’s challenges and anticipate tomorrow’s needs.
So, in a nutshell, that's Pleo. Today we are a 850+ team, from over 100 nations, sitting in our Copenhagen HQ, London, Stockholm, Berlin, Madrid, Montreal and Lisbon offices —and quite a few full-time remotes in 35 other countries! Being HQ'd out of Copenhagen means we're inspired by things like a good work-life balance. If you don't work in the office with us, we'll help you set up the best remote setup possible and make sure you still have time to connect with your team.
About your application
- Please submit your application in English; it’s our company language so you’ll be speaking lots of it if you join 💕
- We treat all candidates equally: If you are interested please apply through our application system - any correspondence should come from there! Our lovely support isn't able to pass on any calls/ emails our way - and this makes sure that the candidate experience is smooth and fair to everyone 😊
- We’re on a mission to make everyone feel valued at work. That’s only achievable if our team reflects the diversity of the world around us - and that starts with you, hitting apply, even if you are worried you might not tick all the boxes! We embrace and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply - regardless of race/ethnicity, colour, religion, nationality, gender, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, neurodiversity, socio-economic status, culture or beliefs.
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