Associate Software Engineer

Get ready for the adventure of a lifetime to jumpstart your engineering career! 

Our Associate engineers at Pleo get to work on exciting projects that directly impact the customer and Pleo’s overall company trajectory. No sitting around making tiny one-line of text code changes for endless months here, we empower all our engineers – including our associate engineers – with a sense of ownership and autonomy sought after in a modern tech company. 

Did we mention that you’ll learn from some of the best? Pleo is a Fintech unicorn. We didn’t get that way by accident. As an associate engineer, you’ll get to work alongside and be mentored by our talented team of engineers who are experts in high-performing, large-scale, distributed systems. 

We’re looking for someone who has done some coding before – an internship or bootcamp, for example – and who is excited to jump in and learn quickly. Pleo operates in a fast-paced, ever changing environment. 

While our industry is competitive, we aim to be collaborative within engineering so we can all rise further together. As such, we’re looking for someone who brings a customer focus to what they build and has collaboration skills in how they build it.

We’re up for it, are you?

You know your way around

• RESTful API design best practices
• Server-side languages (e.g. Kotlin)
• Relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL)
• Testing (e.g. JUnit)

Your peers would say you

• Work in English with ease (it's our company language)
• Never stop being curious and love learning about new tech
• Seek feedback so you can learn and grow
• You don’t just write code, you think about the customer and help to design the overall solution

Show me the Benefits

• Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!)
• Lunch is on us - with catering in our Lisbon, and London offices or a monthly lunch allowance paid directly together with your salary in other markets 🍜
• Private health insurance to ensure you’re fit in body and mind to do your best work
• We offer 25 days of holiday + your public holidays (Subject to location sometimes)
• Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrifice
• Wellbeing days - fully paid days off designed for a slower pace, allowing you to take time to recharge and prioritise self-care
• We’re trialling MyndUp to give our employees access to free mental health and wellbeing support with great success so far  ❤️‍🩹
• Access to LinkedIn Learning - acquire new skills, stay abreast of industry trends and fuel your personal and professional development continuously 
• 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 👶
• All of us have a stake in Pleo’s success - ask us about our equity grant scheme

Timelines and other things to know:

• Application Period: This job ad is live for only two weeks, until the 26th Feburary. Please ensure your application is submitted by this date.
• Response Time: We aim to review all applications and respond within approximately two weeks after the application deadline.
• Recruitment Process: Our recruitment process will span about 6-8 weeks in total and includes the following stages:
  Screening Test: A time-sensitive pre-screen coding test using a tool,  will be sent out during the last weekend of Feb. Please ensure you are available during this period. Detailed instructions will follow once shortlisted > Introductory Call: A brief call to discuss your background and the role >Team Interview: An interview with potential team members to assess technical fit similar to a system design interview  >  Final Interview: A bar-raiser interview to finalize our evaluation,  a deeper dive into your skills, experience, and alignment with the role 
• The salary for this role is dependent on your place of work. The roles are open in the following countries- UK: EUR 44,000 ; Spain & Portugal: EUR 40,000
• Please only apply if you are available to join us full time on the 1st of May

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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 a