Engineering Manager Spendesk

About the job

As a Software Engineering Manager, Travel & Expense, you will lead the engineering squad building Spendesk's travel and out-of-pocket expense experiences. You will work closely with a Product Manager, Product Designer, technical leadership, and partner teams.

You will own team objectives and delivery against clear KPIs and SLOs across trips, hotel and travel booking, budgets and approvals, expense claims, mileage, per diems, compliance, and connected spend workflows.

You will grow and engage a cross-functional team of fullstack and mobile engineers, while providing technical leadership on architecture, reliability, security, production issues, code quality, and integrations with travel suppliers and Spendesk's financial platform.

The Engineering Manager is expected to demonstrate leadership, initiative, customer obsession, operational excellence, and commitment to Spendesk's values and objectives. As we are an international team, please submit your application and CV in English.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of around 10 software engineers, including feedback, performance management, progression, recruitment, and onboarding.

• Set objectives and deliver the Travel & Expense roadmap with the Product Manager, Product Designer, and Tech Leader on a quarterly basis planning divided in 2 weeks sprints

• Improve customer experiences across trips, hotel booking, travel approvals, expense claims, mileage, per diems, reimbursement, and compliance.

• Guide architecture and integrations across travel suppliers, cards, payments, invoices, accounting, identity, and security services.

• Maintain high standards for code quality, testing, security, observability, SLOs, incident response, and production ownership.

• Build an autonomous, customer-focused team that delivers measurable outcomes and continuously improves its ways of working.

• Participate to the migration of the platform in our service-based architecture designed with hexagonal pattern

Travel & Expense Context

Travel & Expense is part of Spend Management. The product area focuses on two connected customer needs: helping employees manage business travel and helping employees submit and receive reimbursement for out-of-pocket, policy-based spend.

The squad works across:

• Travel management: trips, hotel booking, travel budgets, approvals, travel policies, booking, and post-booking experiences.

• Expense management: expense claims, mileage, per diems, reimbursement status, and local compliance requirements.

• Spend connectivity: links between trips, cards, expense claims, invoices, accounting, and financial reporting.

• Platform and integrations: external travel suppliers and internal payment, identity, security, and financial services.

• Customer outcomes: adoption, activation, repeat usage, CSAT, reliability, operational cost, and spend captured through Spendesk.

The squad operates with strong ownership. Engineers participate in quality assurance, production support, documentation, and continuous improvement. The team works in short iterations, uses customer and product data to guide decisions, and maintains a focus on reliability, security, compliance, and measurable business impact.

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 Payfit, Accor, Welcome to the Jungle, Swile, Big Mamma, Malt and Yousign. 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!

• Flexible on-site and remote policy

• Latest Apple equipment — the tools you need to excel

• Access to Moka.care — for emotional and mental health wellbeing

• Great office snacks — to fuel your day

• A positive team to work with daily!

We also offer location-specific benefits tailored to each market, including health insurance, wellness allowances, commuter support, meal vouchers, and gym memberships — ensuring you're well supported wherever you're based.

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.