About Pleo Messy spend management is tricky business. And tedious processes are a lose-lose situation for all involved, not just finance. We build spend solutions that make managing money seamless, empowering, and surprisingly effective for finance teams and employees alike - with a vision to help all businesses 'go beyond'. With great ambitions driving us forward, we can't say we've got this whole thing figured out. We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Decision Intelligence team at Pleo. It's some of the highest-stakes engineering at Pleo.
Our ambition is to build a best-in-class fraud and risk capability: fast, accurate, explainable, and powered by clean data and machine learning at scale. This is a senior leadership role built to grow. As Senior Engineering Manager for Decision Intelligence, you will:
Own the delivery, quality, and technical direction of the fraud and risk decisioning platform, and the health and velocity of the team (or teams) that build it.
Set the technical vision for how Pleo detects and prevents fraud:



a data and ML-driven decisioning capability that is fast, accurate, and explainable at scale.
Build a focused, high-performing team with clear ownership, sharp priorities, and a strong engineering culture.
Drive AI-native ways of working: set the standards for how AI tools are used, and stay accountable for the quality and safety of AI-assisted work in a fintech context (verification, audit trails, explainability).
A track record of leading and growing engineering teams as an Engineering Manager or Senior Engineering Manager, with clear ownership of delivery health and people development.
Domain judgment in fraud, risk, financial crime, trust & safety, or another real-time, high-stakes decisioning domain, and an understanding of what makes it hard: latency budgets, false-positive/false-negative trade-offs, adversarial change, and regulatory weight. Enough technical depth to set direction credibly and challenge it well, in

📌 Senior Engineering Manager (Madrid)
🏢 Pleo
📍 Madrid