Staff Engineer

Meet the Team 👥

Here at Cleo, we have ~200 Engineers organised into Pillars. ✨ Our stack spans a Ruby on Rails monolith, a single React Native (TypeScript) app frontend, Python for machine learning services, and PostgreSQL, all hosted on AWS and shipped through Kubernetes - backend goes out multiple times a week, app releases to Google and Apple at least weekly. To thrive here, our engineers proactively use our Engineering Principles to guide daily decisions, take ownership of problems beyond their own squad to drive broader impact, and actively drive their own learning, development, and growth.

About the Role ✍️

We're hiring a Staff Backend Engineer for our Financial Assistant Pillar. You'll shape technical direction and drive delivery across multiple functional product squads.

Key responsibilities for this role include

• Partnering with senior peers to define architecture and lead complex, high-impact initiatives

• Bringing teams together to ship ambitious product work that improves users’ financial health

• Building shared systems, patterns, and tooling that raise the bar across engineering

• Staying hands-on in our Ruby on Rails monolith -- designing APIs, data models, and scalable services

• Anticipating risks and opportunities early, influencing plans and technical strategy

• Mentoring engineers and TLs, growing the next generation of technical leaders

What We're Looking For 🕵️

• You’re excited by the opportunity to own and influence technical direction at a pillar level

• You’ve operated at senior/staff level across multiple teams or complex domains

• You bring strong technical judgment and think in long-term, scalable solutions

• You’re comfortable leading without authority and aligning teams around a shared direction

• You have a track record of building systems and practices used beyond your immediate team

• You enjoy mentoring and raising the bar for others

• You have strong, hands-on experience with Ruby on Rails (essential)

What we offer

We offer benefits package built to support you in and out of work. Benefits vary by country 🌍 and include meaningful equity, comprehensive health insurance, mental health support, a paid one-month sabbatical after four years, a learning & development platform, pension or retirement contributions, and location-specific leave entitlements.

For the full breakdown on what's available in your location, visit our Candidate Hub 👈