Senior Data Engineer
Intro
At Pleo, we’re on a mission to revolutionise the way businesses manage company spending. No more outdated processes, clunky spreadsheets, or frustrating delays - we believe spend management should be seamless, empowering, and surprisingly effective for finance teams and employees alike. We’re creating tools that promote autonomy, foster trust, and let businesses focus on what truly matters.
Our culture is built on transparency, collaboration, and a deep commitment to innovation – which is reflected in our spending solution. At Pleo, you’ll join a passionate team shaping the future of work, all while having some fun along the way.
About the team
The Business Analytics Team is responsible for delivering and enhancing high-quality, robust data solutions that drive commercial performance, revenue operations, and financial planning across Pleo.
You'll collaborate extensively with Product, Engineering, and Business teams to ensure our data solutions directly drive product innovation and business outcomes. You’ll help shape the future of Pleo’s data landscape, supporting multiple teams, driving strategic projects, and staying hands-on with cutting-edge technology to deliver impactful solutions.
You are a trailblazer, ready to lead innovation, mentor others, and tackle strategic challenges while maintaining a strong focus on execution. You’ll partner with engineers, analysts, data scientists, and stakeholders across the company to unlock the potential of data in driving Pleo’s mission forward.
What you’ll be doing
As a Senior Data Engineer, you will:
- Partnering with product and business teams to develop data strategies that enable new features and improve user experience.
- Driving key strategic projects across the domain, dipping in and out as needed to provide leadership and hands-on support.
- Supporting multiple teams across the domain in delivering impactful data and analytics solutions.
- Building data products that directly support domain’s roadmap and business goals.
- Collaborating with the leadership team and other data leaders to set the vision for Pleo’s data strategy and ensure alignment with company objectives.
- Enhancing our data infrastructure and pipelines to improve scalability, performance, and data quality.
- Experimenting with and implementing innovative technologies to keep Pleo’s data stack at the forefront of the industry.
- Mentoring engineers, analysts, and data scientists to foster growth and build a world-class data team.
What you bring
You will thrive in this role if you have
- Are excited by the opportunity to work across diverse teams, aligning initiatives and driving domain-wide impact with a ‘data as a product’ mindset.
- Love being hands-on with modern data tools and technology while also contributing to strategic decision-making.
- Enjoy the balance of diving into challenging projects while mentoring and coaching others to succeed.
- Have a strong background in building and managing data infrastructure at scale, with expertise in Python, SQL, BigQuery, AWS, dbt and, Airflow.
- Have a strong background in data modelling and building scalable data pipelines.
- Are naturally curious and enthusiastic about experimenting with new tech to solve complex problems.
- Can effectively translate business and product requirements into technical data solutions.
- Take pride in fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and learning across an organisation.
Show me the benefits!
- Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!)
- Lunch is on us - with catering in our Lisbon, 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
- We offer 25 days of holiday + your public holidays
- Flexibility/remote working options
- Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrifice
- We’re trialing 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 👶
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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.
- When you submit an application we process your personal data as a data processor. Find out more about how your data is used in the FAQs section at the bottom of our jobs page.
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Let’s get to know each other. We want to find out more about you, your motivations, and give you more information about the role.
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The challenge
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The team interview
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The final interview
A call with someone in leadership who’ll walk you through the big picture and chat about how your role will figure into that.
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