Senior Backend Engineer - Accounting Integrations

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Drive technical direction across integration platform + delivery work, with clear trade-offs and pragmatic sequencing.
• - Define and raise engineering quality standards for integrations (testing expectations, reliability/monitoring, security, logging), including for work done by external developers/partners.
• - Lead initiatives that enable scale, like reusable patterns/tooling (e.g., IDK) and frameworks that reduce one-off implementation work.
• - Improve ways of working: planning, prioritisation, and protecting the team from constant mid-week churn.
• - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop innovative solutions across Platform, Services, SMB, and other domains.
• - 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

• - Expertise in building integrations or working on accounting systems (is an advantage, but not necessary)
• - Senior-level systems thinking, able to operate “outside the team” and influence stakeholders.
• - Expertise in server-side languages, especially Kotlin, and experience with distributed systems, microservices, and cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Kubernetes).
• - Proficiency with relational databases like PostgreSQL, testing frameworks (e.g., JUnit, Testcontainers), and observability tools like Grafana.
• - Strong problem-solving skills and a collaborative mindset to mentor and upskill your teammates.
• - A proven ability to lead large projects, manage ambiguity, and maintain high standards for code quality and reliability.
• - A passion for innovation and driving impactful solutions within a fast-paced scale-up environment.

Benefits

• - Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!)
• - Lunch is on us for your work days - enjoy catered meals or receive a lunch allowance based on your local office
• - Comprehensive private healthcare - depending on your location, coverage options include Vitality, Alan or Médis
• - We offer 25 days of holiday + your public holidays
• - For our Team, we offer both hybrid and fully remote working options
• - Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrifice
• - We use MyndUp to give our employees access to free mental health and well-being support with great success so far
• - 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