Senior Frontend Platform Engineer

<p>The year was 1569, and Gerardus Mercator had just published his “<em>Nova et Aucta Orbis Terrae Descriptio ad Usum Navigantium Emendate Accommodata”</em> or if you don’t speak Latin, the “<em>New and more complete representation of the terrestrial globe properly adapted for use in navigation”.</em></p> <p>OK, basically just a map of the world 🗺</p> <p>It hadn’t been an easy task; lots of new ideas had been thrown at him or popped up in his brain along the way; a few people disagreed with him, and were set on sticking to old versions, but he persisted, because he knew it would help sailors navigate the globe and improve the lives of everyone on Earth (which he knew is totally round).</p> <p>But do you think Mercator was happy with his map? Well yes, he was quite proud of it, but he also knew it could be improved upon. He spent many years after this creating smaller, more detailed maps of more focused regional areas.</p> <p>And this is the crux of the matter: Always. Be. Improving.</p> <p>Which is where this job ad actually turns into a job ad, because we at Pleo, are looking for a Frontend Platform Engineer who likes to think of themselves as a little like Mercartor.</p> <p>As a Senior Engineer in our Frontend Platform team, you’ll be helping build a map for the Frontend at Pleo. You’ll join a small distributed team that designs, evolves, and maintains the Frontend ecosystem that enables our web application development.<br/><br/></p> <p>We’re looking for engineers with a strong interest in building and owning systems and tools, who love to be at the forefront of all things Frontend, and are not afraid to try new initiatives or to pioneer an innovative new tool.<br/><br/></p> <p>Our map adapts to the needs of the business and our Frontend engineers, and you’ll need to too, but here are a few projects that we have, are or will be working on:</p> <ul> <li>Enable incremental improvements to our Frontend tooling and technology stack (Using for example tRPC, AWS Lambdas and backend for frontend (BFF) patterns)</li> <li>Implementing a monorepo setup for our Frontend (using Turborepo)</li> <li>Test framework and setup</li> </ul> <p>We need someone to join this team of Pleo pioneers who isn’t afraid of the scope of the challenge and who always has our customers’ needs at the forefront of their minds.<br/><br/></p> <h3>What you’ll do (a few more of the specifics):</h3> <ul> <li>Advise product teams at Pleo on Frontend architecture and technologies – you may sometimes be embedded in the product teams</li> <li>Influence and evolve the long term vision of Frontend at Pleo – you’ll innovate and implement at the same time</li> <li>Improve the development experience of our engineers by enabling fast feedback loops, reliable CI infrastructure, and the promotion of best-practices</li> <li>Own core functionalities, components, and tools in our Frontend platform that let product teams focus on building great experiences for our customers</li> <li>Help build and foster a company-wide community of people interested in Frontend engineering</li> </ul> <h3>You know your way around</h3> <ul> <li>React</li> <li>GitHub</li> <li>TypeScript</li> <li>Monorepos</li> <li>Frontend testing</li> </ul> <h3>Your colleagues say you</h3> <ul> <li>Thrives in a remote first environment</li> <li>Work in English with ease (it's our company language)</li> <li>Care about quality in all aspects of your work</li> <li>Somehow manage to stay on top of the ever-changing modern Frontend ecosystem</li> <li>Are comfortable venturing <em>outside</em> of the Frontend technologies 😱</li> <li>Have experience solving complex technical challenges at scale</li> <li>Coach others to help them develop as engineers</li> <li>Are motivated by the needs of our users (internally and externally)</li> <li>Would be a person that they would actually like to have a coffee with (virtual or not)</li> <li>Find a way to debate the merits of server vs client side rendering in the aforementioned</li> <li>You can discuss pros and cons of tech and architectural choices, e.g. Monorepo vs non-monorepo setup and Micro-frontends vs monolithic frontend</li> </ul> <h3><em>But most importantly</em></h3> <p>Even if you don’t check every box here, you’re committed to investing in new skills to help you be and do your best at work.</p> <h3>Show me the benefits!</h3> <ul> <li>Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!)</li> <li>Lunch is on us - with catering in our Lisbon and Copenhagen  offices or a monthly lunch allowance paid directly together with  your salary in other markets 🍜</li> <li>Private health insurance to ensure you’re fit in body and mind to do your best work</li> <li>We offer 25 days of holiday + your public holidays (rules may differ depending on location)</li> <li>For the team you join, we offer remote/ flexible work</li> <li>Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrifice</li> <li>Wellbeing days - fully paid days off designed for a slower