Senior Backend Engineer

Requirements Millions of people want to grow their money but don't know where to start. More than 90% of adults don’t access traditional financial advice. That's the gap Plum was built to close.

We're building the proactive money platform that makes it easy for people to smartly and sustainably grow their money. Whether you're stashing the cash for tea and toast in your first home or catching some rays during retirement, we've got your back.

Since 2016, millions of people across 10 European markets have set aside more than 10 billion with Plum. But what we're most excited about is what comes next and the opportunity for our people to help shape it.

We're now going after something even bigger: the 2 trillion+ advised market in the UK and beyond, currently locked behind high fees and complexity. By combining AI-driven financial guidance with the products people actually need, we're building a solution for everyone, not just the wealthy few.

At Plum, you'll be part of a team that's ambitious, curious and driven. We move fast, learn from what doesn't work, challenge the status quo and, most importantly, build something that makes people's lives better. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere, and that the best work happens when people feel trusted to take ownership, collaborate openly and bring their whole selves to work.

Join nearly 300 Plumsters and be part of a team shaping the future of money

The Role At Plum we’re looking for engineers who are passionate about both technology but also about bringing the best product to our customers.

To achieve this mission we’re looking for engineers who not only have a strong technical background but who also understand the product and are able to make an impact on all the steps of the product development lifecycle.

We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer and these are the main qualities you should ideally possess if you want to be part of the team:

Qualifications:

At least 5+ years of working experience as a Software Engineer High level of pragmatism

Strong planning and prioritization skills

Promote Continuous Improvement by identifying process efficiencies and quality improvements

Provide guidance to and mentor more junior team members

Being able to share product insight with stakeholders and challenge product decisions

Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational challenges and propose thorough iterative solutions

Experience in working within a cross functional team, collaborative environment, ability to partake in and contribute to technical, design and retrospective dialog

Self-motivated and self-managing, with excellent organizational skills

Comfortable working with both strongly and dynamically typed languages, we believe you can bring valuable insights and perspectives to the team, even if Python is not your primary language. We care more about your overall programming skills and approach to problem-solving!

Key Responsibilities:

Being able to create and design modular, scalable, testable, tested, performant systems which interface via well defined endpoints using software engineering best practices

Being able to identify root cause of system issues and determine short and long term resolutions

Adaptability and flexibility, we are building new and novel products and believe that we can provide our users the best products by shipping fast and getting feedback to improve on later iterations

Able to work and intervene on the whole life cycle of the software

Our Tech Stack:

Tech Stack:
Kotlin with Spring Boot & Python with FastAPIDatastores:
Postgres, Big Query,

Infrastructure: GCP (kubernetes, docker), RabbitMQ, Terraform Monitoring:
Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, Incident.io, Sentry What to Expect from Our Hiring Process At Plum, we value a lot the time you devote to the hiring process, this is why we are always trying to make the process as fast and smooth as possible. 30 min. Call with our Talent Acquisition Team. So we understand better your career plan, tell you more about Plum and the role ️45 min.

Call with our Engineering Lead. Brief technical discussion about the role and your…