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 with clean, versioned, and high-performance endpoints for internal dashboards, customer-facing features, and third-party applications.

• Design and enhance read models, indexes, and caching strategies in PostgreSQL as well as future OLAP stores.

• Create dependable integrations with Kotlin-based product backend services.

• Take responsibility for service reliability and performance, encompassing monitoring, incident response, and SLOs.

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

• Secure APIs utilizing industry-standard authentication and authorization protocols in conjunction with the Authorization team.

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

• Design capabilities for metadata, lineage, and governance.

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

• Report to the Senior Manager of Data & AI Products and work alongside Data Engineers, Product Managers, Staff Data Platform Engineering, GenAI Platform, and Data Infrastructure teams.

• Deliver the first production version of the Reporting API while establishing access control, tenant isolation, security, performance, reliability, and SLO benchmarks.

⛳️ Requirements

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

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

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

• Solid foundation in SQL and non-SQL databases along with strong SQL querying abilities.

• Extensive expertise in Kafka.

• Significant experience with a JVM-based language; Pleo’s product backend is based on Kotlin.

• Familiarity with AWS or GCP, specifically with Kubernetes.

• Knowledge in configuring, deploying, and managing containerized applications within a Kubernetes environment.

• Experience at the intersection of data systems and product backend services.

• Capability to operate swiftly and work autonomously in a hands-on delivery role.

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

• Proficiency in English is required for the application.

• Must be located in the selected country with a valid right to work.

• Visa sponsorship is not available.

🏝️ Benefits

• Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket expenses!).

• Lunch is provided on workdays via catered meals or a local-office lunch allowance.

• Comprehensive private healthcare, with coverage options including Vitality, Alan, or Médis depending on location.

• 25 days of annual leave plus public holidays.

• Hybrid and fully remote working options available.

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

• Paid parental leave.