Staff Front End Engineer (Web Core)

Overview

As Staff Engineer in Web Core, you will shape the core web platform used by product engineers to deliver fast, reliable web experiences. You drive technical direction, scale systems, and improve developer productivity across teams. You’ll build shared foundations, tooling, and patterns while mentoring engineers and contributing hands-on code. This role offers influence across the frontend stack and a chance to raise the bar for quality and delivery at Pleo.

Pay / Benefits

• Your own Pleo card
• Lunch provided in Lisbon, Copenhagen, and London or monthly lunch allowance
• Private health insurance
• Wellbeing days
• Access to MyndUp mental health support
• LinkedIn Learning access

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for parts of the web platform and align across teams
• Identify leverage opportunities to improve quality, delivery speed, and reliability
• Design solutions with product engineers within the wider ecosystem
• Build and evolve internal tooling, frameworks, and golden paths
• Improve CI reliability and developer workflows
• Coach and mentor engineers to grow technical leadership
• Contribute hands-on in code; balance strategy with execution
• Maintain and scale complex web applications

Key requirements

• Experience building and maintaining complex web applications at scale
• Proficiency with TypeScript and modern frontend engineering; React a plus
• Designing maintainable frontend-facing systems and API boundaries
• Strong testing practices (unit, integration, E2E) and quality mindset
• CI/CD and developer productivity improvements
• Observability and monitoring for web systems (metrics, logging, tracing, alerting)
• Effective cross-team collaboration and clear communication of tradeoffs

• Lead by example with pragmatism and care
• Clear communication and active listening
• Problem-solving with input from others and collaborative decision-making
• Building and maintaining web platforms at scale
• TypeScript and frontend engineering (React a plus)
• Designing maintainable frontend-facing systems and APIs

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