The Role
The Infrastructure team is responsible for operating, maintaining and continuously improving our scalable, robust, secure and performant platform to support both our growing customer base and our engineering organization. Our aim is to enable and empower engineers to self-serve and deliver value to our customers in a fast, safe, and autonomous manner. This role leads the team of infrastructure engineers, to drive innovation in infrastructure processes, focused on operational excellence. This is a role that should lead how we can use AI technology to improve speed and the developer experience.
What you'll do
- Technical Delivery:
- Develop and implement infrastructure strategies and solutions, including networks, cloud services, databases, and storage systems, ensuring systems are scalable, secure and compliant, efficient, and performant.
- From planning and discovery, through to delivery and support - utilizing agile processes and practices. The Infrastructure team has its own ambitious roadmap, but we also collaborate closely with Engineering squads to deliver complex transversal initiatives, and look at how we can constantly improve the developer experience.
- Operational Excellence:
- Lead incident response efforts, overseeing the investigation and resolution of infrastructure-related issues, including following up of post-mortem actions and championing this across the business. This person is the lead for our engineering on-call process we have in place across our company.
- Manage budget and resources for infrastructure projects and operational environments, ensuring efficient utilization while staying within budget constraints and leading our cloud cost optimization strategy.
- Ensuring the Platform is available for both customers and engineers, SLAs/SLOs are met, as well as identifying bottlenecks which might impede scaling in the future. This will include implementation of disaster recovery projects.
- People:
- Management and growth of engineers – through 1:1s, performance reviews and objectives, it is important for all that we are able to deliver work of a high standard, in a sustainable manner, and engineers are able to learn, develop and grow their skills and career.
- Collaborate closely with other engineering teams, product managers, and business leaders to align infrastructure capabilities with business needs and growth.
What we're looking for
- Technical Experience
- An expert in modern infrastructure technology with experience in high-availability cloud platforms for SAAS companies.
- Experience with our specific tech stack is preferred.
- Understanding of regulatory frameworks like GDPR, ISO27k etc.
- An advocate for AI technologies and constantly stays up to date with modern technologies.
- Solid understanding of networking, storage, security, containerization and orchestration
- Experience with DevOps practices and tools (CI/CD, automation), and creation of developer golden paths.
- Leadership Experience
- Track record resource planning and roadmap creating experience
- Experience managing and growing a distributed engineering team
- Professional Attributes
- Strategic thinking and execution ability, with a strong work ethic and attention to detail.
- Strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Pragmatic mindset; able to balance technical correctness with business priorities
- Takes initiative, identifies problems, and proactively proposes solutions, and is comfortable making key decisions.
- Powerful collaborator who works well across departments.
Our stack
- AWS as our cloud compute platform
- Kubernetes (EKS) for container runtime and orchestration
- RDS (PostgreSQL, MySQL), Kafka, Redis
- Terraform for infrastructure as code
- Lambda and Step Functions
- Datadog for Observability
- Github actions for CICD
- Frontend is React
- Backend services are developed in NodeJS (TypeScript)
As we are an international team, please submit your application and CV in English.
About Spendesk
Spendesk is the AI-powered spend management and procurement platform that transforms company spending. By simplifying procurement, payment cards, expense management, invoice processing, and accounting automation, Spendesk sets the new standard for spending at work. Its single, intelligent solution makes efficient spending easy for employees and gives finance leaders the full visibility and control they need across all company spend, even in multi-entity structures. Trusted by thousands of companies, Spendesk supports over 200,000 users across brands such as SoundCloud, Gousto, SumUp, and Bloom & Wild. With offices in the United Kingdom, France, Spain and Germany, Spendesk also puts community at the heart of its mission.
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About our people & culture
We believe that people do their best work when they’re given the freedom to thrive and grow. That’s why liberation is at the core of everything we do. We empower Spendeskers to take ownership of their work, to navigate ambiguity, and seize every opportunity. Spendeskers come from all over the world (35+ countries and counting!) but we have plenty in common: we're bold, ever-curious, committed to kindness, and tackle every challenge with a positive mindset.
About our benefits
Our culture is built on trust, empowerment, and growth — with benefits to match!
- 4 days per month remote (non-accumulative) and 3 full weeks remote per year (non-consecutive)-
-Fully covered Oyster card for traveling to and from our new office (up to £250 monthly depending on location)
-£45 monthly wellness allowance, accruable, to be used on whatever wellness means to you - through the Ben platform
- Access to Moka.care for emotional and mental health wellbeing
- Pension scheme (on salary sacrifice): 5% employee / 5% employer (by Aviva)
- 28 days of holidays
- Latest Apple Mac equipment
- Company virtual events
- Visit our other offices: Paris, Berlin & Hamburg
- Great office snacks to fuel your day
- A positive team to work with daily!
- Vitality private health insurance (for you and your family/partner)
- Bupa private dental care
Diversity & Inclusion
At Spendesk, we're committed to fostering an environment where all differences are encouraged, supported and celebrated. We're building our culture for everyone, with everyone. Our goal is to attract and build a diverse, equal and inclusive team, where everyone feels welcome and we truly embrace and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.
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The Company
What We Do
Spendesk is the complete spend management platform that gives 100% visibility into company spend. With Spendesk, you get a 7-in-1 solution with corporate cards, invoice payments, expense reimbursements, budgets, approval, reporting, compliance, and pre-accounting in one simple, scalable solution. Trusted by thousands of businesses from start-ups to established brands, Spendesk is designed to save time and money across the entire spending process with 100% visibility, built-in automation, and an easily adopted approval process. Ultimately businesses that use Spendesk empower every employee to be accountable for the financial fitness of the company.
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