Senior Staff / Principal Data Engineer
About the role
We’re looking for a Senior Staff/Principal Data Engineer to join our Data Platform Group and support all data and analytics initiatives across Pleo. While embedded in the Data Platform Group, you’ll work directly with the VP of Data, contributing as a key member of the data leadership team. 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.
The Data Platform Group
Our mission is to empower every Pleo’er to take data-inspired actions by providing a scalable, robust analytics infrastructure. In this role, you’ll extend our group’s influence by enabling teams across the business to deliver on complex data and analytics projects while ensuring alignment and collaboration. In this role, you'll serve as a bridge between the Data Platform Group and other teams, ensuring our data infrastructure evolves in lockstep with product development and business needs.
You will thrive in this role if you
- Are excited by the opportunity to work across diverse teams, aligning initiatives and driving company-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, AWS, dbt, Airflow, and Kubernetes.
- 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.
Your colleagues say you
- Are an effective bridge-builder who creates strong partnerships across engineering, product, and business teams.
- Are an inspiring leader who can tackle complex challenges with creativity and clarity.
- Balance innovation and pragmatism, knowing when to go deep and when to deliver quickly.
- Are a trusted mentor who uplifts and develops those around you.
- Actively seek and share knowledge, contributing to a culture of continuous learning.
- Have a knack for bringing people together and aligning them towards shared goals.
- Are someone they’d love to have coffee with (virtual or not).
You will work on
- Partnering with product and business teams to develop data strategies that enable new features and improve user experience.
- Driving key strategic projects across the organisation, dipping in and out as needed to provide leadership and hands-on support.
- Supporting multiple teams across Pleo in delivering impactful data and analytics solutions.
- Building data products that directly support Pleo's product roadmap and business goals.
- Collaborating with the VP of Data 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.
Show me the benefits!
- A Pleo card for effortless work-related spending.
- Catered lunches in select offices or a monthly lunch allowance for remote employees.
- Comprehensive private health insurance to keep you healthy and happy.
- 25 days of annual leave, plus public holidays and the option to buy five additional days.
- Flexibility/remote work options to fit your lifestyle.
- Wellbeing days to recharge when you need it most.
- Access to LinkedIn Learning and other tools for personal and professional growth.
- Paid parental leave to support your growing family.
Why join us?
At Pleo, we’re reshaping the future of work by empowering businesses with smarter, more intuitive financial solutions. Our mission is to help every company go beyond the books, fostering a culture of responsible spending and seamless collaboration across teams.
We champion our customers, succeed as a team, and build solutions that scale. If you’re ready to make a difference in how companies think about data, finances, and collaboration, we’d love to meet you.
Our values
- Champion the customer: Address real pain points with innovative solutions.
- Succeed as a team: Leverage diversity and trust to achieve our goals.
- Make it happen: Be bold, take ownership, and follow through.
- Build to scale: Design with longevity and scalability in mind.
Join us in one of our vibrant offices across Europe or remotely from where you work best. Wherever you are, you’ll be part of a dynamic, global team shaping the future of work.
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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