Senior Backend Engineer, Data Serving

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom, +6 more countries.

📋 Description

• Develop and manage the Data API boundary featuring clean, versioned, and efficient endpoints.

• Create APIs for internal dashboards, customer-facing functionalities, and third-party integrations like Fivetran connectors.

• Design and enhance Postgres and future OLAP read models, including indexes and caching strategies.

• Construct integrations with Kotlin-based product backend services.

• Take responsibility for monitoring, incident response, reliability, performance, and service level objectives (SLOs) for customer-facing services.

• Define contracts between ingestion/aggregation systems and the serving database in collaboration with Data Engineers.

• Implement security measures for APIs using established authentication and authorization protocols.

• Develop a near-real-time data aggregation service spanning Pleo services.

• Design capabilities for metadata, lineage, and governance.

• Manage access control and permission oversight, including row- and column-level access and audit trails.

• Establish the production version of the Reporting API, including contracts, versioning, SLOs, tenant isolation, and security model.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven backend engineering experience in building and managing reporting and analytics API services along with serving-layer infrastructure.

• Familiarity with reliability, latency, and SLOs.

• Experience in owning API boundary layers, encompassing endpoint design, versioning, contract stability, and safeguarding consumers from raw data sources.

• Proficient in read-heavy systems, relational database optimization, indexing, materialized views, caching, and API performance enhancement.

• Strong SQL querying capabilities and a solid understanding of database fundamentals across SQL and non-SQL systems.

• Extensive expertise in Kafka.

• Significant experience with a JVM-based language; Pleo's product backend utilizes Kotlin.

• Experience with AWS or GCP and Kubernetes, including the configuration, deployment, and operation of containerized applications within a Kubernetes environment.

• Background in working across data systems and product backend services.

• Ability to work swiftly and independently in a hands-on delivery capacity.

• Experience in fintech, payments, or other regulated product environments.

• Valid right to work in the specified country.

• Application in English and capability to use English as the primary company language.

• Visa sponsorship is not available.

🏝️ Benefits

• Your own Pleo card.

• Catered meals or a lunch allowance for workdays.

• Comprehensive private healthcare, with coverage options varying by location.

• 25 days of annual leave in addition to public holidays.

• Hybrid and fully remote working arrangements.

• Complimentary mental health and well-being support through MyndUp.

• Paid parental leave.