Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure at Spendesk

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

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Not SpecifiedCompensation
Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
N/AIndustries

Requirements

  • 7+ years of engineering experience, with a strong track record in DevOps, infrastructure, or platform roles supporting multiple engineering teams
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production environments, including designing and debugging containerized services at scale
  • Fluency in Go (Golang) OR Typescript, having built tooling, services, or operators that run reliably in production
  • Proficiency with AWS and a solid understanding of Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform or a similar tool
  • Experience building internal tooling or platforms used across multiple teams (bonus if owned adoption, documentation, or support)
  • A bias for automation, replacing playbooks with code and eliminating toil wherever possible
  • A product mindset, empathizing with users (other developers), gathering feedback, and treating internal systems like customer-facing products
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with clear documentation and async updates as second nature
  • A love for clean abstractions, scalable systems, and improving

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain core infrastructure services including provisioning workflows, service orchestration, and deployment automation using Kubernetes, Go, and cloud-native tools
  • Own and evolve the CI/CD platform, improving performance, reliability, and usability, with a focus on fast feedback, secure secrets handling, and smooth rollback support
  • Develop service scaffolding and templates that allow product teams to spin up production-ready services in minutes with consistent tooling, observability, and security baked in
  • Lead the technical rollout of the Service Orchestrator, a new internal product aimed at simplifying infrastructure provisioning across squads
  • Improve observability tooling and incident response workflows, building custom dashboards and refining alerting systems to reduce noise and improve reliability
  • Partner closely with product engineers and EMs to identify recurring friction in development workflows and turn those into reusable, documented platform solutions
  • Take technical ownership of key platform domains, such as secrets management, infrastructure as code, monitoring pipelines, or cost visibility tooling
  • Champion internal adoption of platform capabilities by writing excellent documentation, creating onboarding guides, and supporting team usage through async support and office hours
  • Participate in on-call rotation, using that insight to continuously reduce toil through automation, self-healing systems, and smarter alert routing

Skills

Kubernetes
Go
AWS
ArgoCD
GitHub Actions

Spendesk

Financial technology for expense management

About Spendesk

Spendesk offers a financial technology platform that helps businesses manage their spending more effectively. The platform provides finance teams with a clear overview of all company expenses, including both virtual and physical transactions. It allows users to track expenses, validate them, and maintain a traceable workflow, which helps automate the expense management process while ensuring control over spending. Spendesk is designed to be user-friendly, with a high satisfaction rate among its clients, who find it easy to transition to the platform. Unlike many competitors, Spendesk captures over 95% of receipts on time, giving businesses real-time visibility into their expenditures. The company operates on a subscription model with no hidden fees, making it accessible for businesses of various sizes. The main goal of Spendesk is to streamline financial processes for companies, enabling them to make faster and smarter spending decisions.

Paris, FranceHeadquarters
2016Year Founded
$279.6MTotal Funding
SERIES_CCompany Stage
Fintech, Financial ServicesIndustries
201-500Employees

Benefits

Transport reimbursements - Monthly contribution to your transportation card (metro, bus or train).
Offsite and events - Regular team events to exchange with other Spendeskers and get to know each other better
Personal Day - 3 personal days per year to rest and enjoy life
€50 on your Spendesk card - To buy anything you need for work
For Spendeskers with kids - Generous parental leave & a lot of flexibility for working parents
Great offices - In the hearts of Berlin, London, Paris, and San Francisco.

Risks

Increased competition from fintech companies may erode Spendesk's market share.
Regulatory risks arise from operating a payment institution with Spendesk Financial Services.
Geopolitical risks may impact expansion into new markets with Adyen's banking licenses.

Differentiation

Spendesk offers a comprehensive spend management solution with real-time expense visibility.
The platform integrates seamlessly with existing accounting and financial software via APIs.
Spendesk Financial Services provides end-to-end control over payment services infrastructure.

Upsides

ISO 27001:2022 certification enhances Spendesk's reputation for information security.
Partnership with Adyen supports global expansion and compliance across key markets.
Procure-to-pay solution expands product offerings for European SMBs.

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