The GenAI Platform is Pleo's internal AI infrastructure team – the platform on which every customer-facing AI feature is built. The team owns LLM serving (LiteLLM), the MCP gateway and tool registry, the agentic runtime, evaluation tooling and the observability layer. This is a technical engineering management role for a builder-leader who will lead a team of staff and senior engineers through the transition from a Kotlin-first SDK to a hybrid architecture that makes Python a first-class citizen for agentic development. The role reports to the VP of Data.
Responsibilities
- ▹Lead the GenAI Platform team day-to-day as a builder-leader: delivery, quality, team development and ways of working
- ▹Own execution of the platform roadmap: LLM gateway, agentic runtime, MCP layer, data retrieval, eval tooling and the hybrid architecture transition
- ▹Manage the stakeholder relationship with Data & AI Products as the primary internal customer, ensuring the roadmap is shaped by product demand
- ▹Drive active hiring to build a team that delivers on the technical vision
- ▹Partner with SRE on reliability standards, incident management and production readiness
- ▹Represent the team in leadership and cross-functional discussions, translating progress and blockers into decisions
- ▹Own the team's cost and resourcing decisions: LLM spend, infrastructure costs and headcount
Requirements
- ▹Significant engineering management experience in platform or infrastructure teams, balancing technical delivery, hands-on judgment and people leadership
- ▹Deep technical expertise in AI infrastructure, enough to take part in architectural discussions and hands-on work
- ▹Experience managing senior, highly autonomous engineers
- ▹Demonstrated experience leading engineering teams through significant change
- ▹AI-assisted engineering experience with tools such as Claude Code (the team's tool of choice), Codex or Cursor
- ▹Deep knowledge of data/ML-heavy ecosystems
- ▹Enough familiarity with the tech stack (AWS, Kotlin, Python, Kubernetes, LiteLLM, BrainTrust, Temporal, LLM APIs) to make good trade-off decisions
Soft skills
What we offer
- ▹Own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending)
- ▹Lunch covered on work days (catered meals or a lunch allowance)
- ▹Comprehensive private healthcare (Vitality, Alan or Médis depending on location)
- ▹25–28 days of holiday (depending on location) plus public holidays
- ▹Hybrid and fully remote working options
- ▹Option to purchase 5 additional holiday days via salary sacrifice
- ▹Free mental health and wellbeing support via MyndUp
- ▹Paid parental leave
About the company
Pleo builds spend management solutions that make managing company money seamless and effective for finance teams and employees alike, with a vision to help all businesses 'go beyond'. Over its 10-year history the company has grown to a team of 850+ people from over 100 nationalities, serving more than 40,000 customers.