Pleo - Staff People Systems Engineer

• This role is a good fit for you if: • You find it easy to translate technical concepts into language that non-technical stakeholders (from junior to Executive level) can understand. A key part of this role is about explaining systems capabilities, limitations and requirements to scope and implement working solutions for People colleagues. • You enjoy communicating and collaborating with business stakeholders as much as you enjoy spending time writing scripts, code or configuring systems integrations. • You are very organised and can plan, manage, coordinate yours and your team’s workload. You can autonomously divide and assign tasks, and you excel at documenting. In other words, you can act as a Project Manager for your team. • You’re always nerding out about technology and constantly thinking about how you can automate tasks. In other words, writing scripts, building agents or custom services (with the help of Claude!) are things you’ve had previous experience doing. • This role is not a good fit for you if: • Your experience has been focused a lot more on People Operations than technical configuration. You will be expected to read technical documentation to understand and assess API capabilities while also configuring webhooks feeds. • Most of your experience has been with legacy HR systems in very big corporate settings. We’re working with a modern People tech stack. This is not a role for an SAP/Workday specialist. • You require very specific and structured instructions to organise your workload. You will have a lot of autonomy in this role and will be expected to plan work for rather big workstreams, balancing day-to-day operations with project work. • You aren’t able to juggle “getting things done” with “designing for scale”. This role requires you to find the right balance between ensuring delivery and configuring/documenting for long-term efficiency. • The location • Please note: We can hire on a remote, hybrid or in-person set-up in any of the locations listed on the job advert but you will need to be physically based in the country of your choice with a valid right to work. We are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role in any of the listed locations. • 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  ❤️‍🩹 • The interview process • We want to ensure you are set-up for success and understand what will be expected of you. If your application is successful, our interview process is as follows: • Intro call: a 30-minute chat with our Talent Partner to discuss the role and your background. • Hiring Manager interview: a 45-60mins experience-based conversation to assess your background and experience fit. • Pleo challenge interview: a 60mins live case study interview with two colleagues to deep dive into job specific skills. • Final interview: a 30-45mins interview with a senior leader covering values and behavioural skills. • Transparency is important to us so we also wanted to share some insights about what we’re looking for in applications to ensure you can set yourself up for success! • We receive a lot of CVs, and many of them are AI-generated. We love seeing people leverage AI—it’s a big focus for us internally too—but without human intervention, these CVs can sometimes become generic and fail to show a candidate in the best light. What we're really looking for is the specific details of real impact that only you—not AI—know from your previous experience. A top tip from us is to use the “Achieved X, as measured by Y, by doing Z” formula (credit: Laszlo Bock, ~2014) to give a really clear picture of what you’ve worked on. A final note: including links to your previous companies' websites is a huge help and allows us to truly understand your background. • Every single application we receive is reviewed by a human (yes, hundreds of them) because we believe that candidates' efforts should be matched by an equal level of human care. This means that we expect a similar level of attention put into your application. Read and answer the application questions carefully, they make a huge difference in our decision-making process. • We are not looking to hire a software engineer for this role, just as much as we're not looking to hire a project manager or consultant. This is a really unique and very senior role requiring the ability to pick up technical tasks as much as the ability to manage ambiguous business context and stakeholders alignment. We’ve taken great care in writing this role description to reflect the reality of the job as best as possible, please ensure you read it carefully and highlight on your CV the experience relevant to what we are looking for. • English first. • A fair look for everyone. • Diversity drives us. • Interview at your best. • Your data is safe. • Reapplying.