Senior Frontend Platform Engineer

Pleo; England; Hybrid; GBP 86,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Frontend Platform Engineer to influence the long-term vision of frontend development and enhance engineers' experiences. The role focuses on owning core infrastructure, mentoring engineers, and building tools that empower teams. Candidates should have deep expertise in React and TypeScript and a strong passion for continuous improvement. This position offers a competitive salary range and various benefits, including hybrid working options and comprehensive healthcare.

Benefits

Your own Pleo card

Catered meals or lunch allowance

Comprehensive private healthcare

25 days of holiday + public holidays

Option to purchase additional holiday days

Free mental health support

Access to LinkedIn Learning

Paid parental leave

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in React and TypeScript.
• Experience managing monorepos and CI pipelines.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across teams.

Responsibilities

• Influence the long-term vision and strategy of frontend development.
• Improve the development experience through feedback loops and CI infrastructure.
• Mentor and support internal engineers.

Skills

React

TypeScript

CI pipelines

Testing frameworks

Strong communication skills

Job description

About the role

We're looking for a Senior Frontend Platform Engineer to join our Web Core team at Pleo. This role is perfect for an engineer who is interested in supporting other engineers and learning about their most important pain-points by working closely with them. What will you do? In this role, you will be a force multiplier, enabling other engineers to do even better. If you're excited about shaping frontend development and best practices for the engineering organisation, unleashing the potential of internal product engineers, and making your colleagues' lives better through building a strong platform and tooling, then this is the opportunity for you!

What you’ll be doing

As a Senior Frontend Platform Engineer, you will:

• Influence the long-term vision and strategy of frontend development at Pleo.
• Improve the development experience of our engineers by enabling fast feedback loops and reliable CI infrastructure.
• Own core infrastructure, components, and tooling in our frontend platform that let product teams focus on building great experiences for our customers.
• Help build a community of people interested in frontend engineering across the company.
• Mentor, pair with, and support internal engineers.

What you bring

• Deep expertise in React and TypeScript, with experience managing monorepos and CI pipelines and working with testing frameworks such as Vitest.
• Have a pulse on the latest tools and trends in frontend engineering.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams.
• Bring a strong problem-solving mindset and thrive on tackling complex challenges at scale.
• Enjoy coaching others and helping them grow as engineers.
• Are motivated by a strong passion to learn and continuously improve.

Who you’ll be working with and reporting to

You’ll report to our Engineering Manager and work closely with product and platform teams across Pleo. Our team of 5 is highly collaborative and dedicated to influencing the long-term vision of frontend at Pleo and improving the developer experience. You’ll also have the chance to partner with other engineers and departments to ensure success and continuous improvement in our processes and solutions.

How you’ll develop in this role

In your first six months at Pleo, you’ll:

• Lead initiatives to improve internal developer experience, observability and frontend scalability.
• Collaborate with product and platform teams to improve processes and systems.
• Grow your expertise in distributed systems, taking on leadership opportunities and mentoring others.
• Contribute to Pleo’s mission by building tools that empower teams.

We’re committed to helping you develop your career, whether that means taking on bigger projects, stepping into leadership, or acquiring new skills in platform engineering.

Please note: We are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role in any of the listed locations you find in the job info.

Salary Range

The annual salary for this position varies based on your location:

• United Kingdom: £86,900 - £89,600
• Spain/Portugal: €87,100 - €92,500

We’re happy to share more about our approach to pay and this range during your first call with us!

Show me the benefits!

• Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!)
• Lunch is on us for your work days - enjoy catered meals or receive a lunch allowance based on your local office 🍜
• Comprehensive private healthcare - depending on your location, coverage options include Vitality, Alan or Médis
• We offer 25 days of holiday + your public holidays
• For our Team, we offer both hybrid and fully remote working options
• Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrifice
• We use MyndUp to give our employees access to free mental health and well-being 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 👶