At a Glance
- Tasks: Join us to develop scalable and efficient backend systems for our innovative saving app.
- Company: Plum, a leading smart saving and investing app with a vibrant team culture.
- Benefits: Enjoy stock options, private health insurance, flexible remote work, and 25 days holiday.
- Other info: Dynamic environment with opportunities for growth and a fun, inclusive culture.
- Why this job: Be part of a mission-driven team making a real impact on people's financial futures.
- Qualifications: 5+ years in software engineering with strong problem-solving and programming skills.
The predicted salary is between 54000 - 66000 £ per year.
We’re Plum, your smart saving and investing app on a mission to help grow money for life. Whether you’re stashing the cash for tea and toast in your first home or catching some rays during retirement, Plum’s got your back. Since 2016, over 2 million people in 10 European markets have set aside more than £2 billion with our clever automation and AI – that’s the magic of Plum! That’s all down to our passionate team of 200+ Plumsters, who work around Europe to help us achieve our mission.
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:
- At least 5+ years of working experience as a Software Engineer
- Strong planning and prioritization skills
- Promote Continuous Improvement by identifying process efficiencies and quality improvements
- 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!
- 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
Tech Stack: Kotlin with Spring Boot & Python with FastAPI
Monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, Incident.Live
Benefits include:
- Own part of the company you're helping grow through stock options
- Private health insurance
- Annual training budget
- Competitive referral scheme
- Flexible approach to remote working: we encourage at least 2 days a week in one of our beautiful offices in London, Athens or Cyprus
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- 2 weeks sabbatical after 4 years to take the break you deserve
- Enhanced parental leave
- A fun, inclusive company culture
Plum does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin or any other basis covered by appropriate law.
Back End Developer Engineer employer: Plum Fintech
Plum Fintech is an exceptional employer that fosters a collaborative and innovative work culture in the heart of Westminster. With a strong focus on employee growth, the company offers mentorship opportunities for junior engineers and a comprehensive benefits package including stock options and private health insurance, making it an attractive place for those seeking meaningful and rewarding employment.
