Senior Backend Engineer

Plum Inc; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health insurance

Annual training budget

Plum Premium

Referral scheme

Remote-friendly with 2 days in office

Job summary

Plum is building the proactive money platform that helps people grow their money, combining AI guidance with the products they need. We value ownership, collaboration, and trust as we ship fast and learn from feedback. Join a team of nearly 300 Plumsters shaping the future of money.

We’re hiring engineers who care about product and technology and who can impact all stages of the product development lifecycle. Hybrid work with offices in London, Athens and Cyprus.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer.
• Strong planning and prioritization skills.
• Mentor junior team members and share product insights with stakeholders.
• Experience in cross-functional teams and delivering end-to-end features.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly.

Responsibilities

• Design modular, scalable, testable systems with well-defined endpoints.
• Identify root causes and implement short and long-term fixes.
• Ship fast and use feedback to improve iterations.
• Contribute to the full software lifecycle from design to deployment.

Skills

Software Engineer

Cross-functional

Mentoring

Product insight

System design

Strong communication

Python & Kotlin

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Spring Boot

FastAPI

Postgres

BigQuery

Terraform

Grafana

Prometheus

Datadog

Job description

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.

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 FastAPI
• Datastores: Postgres, BigQuery,
• 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 ourTalent 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 skills
• 120 min. Live Coding Call with our Engineers, including System Design exercise and an Implementation phase
• 30 min. TeamCall with a Product Manager and a Senior Manager from Engineering, for you to understand the business and envision yourself as part of Plum
• Offer

Plum’s Perks

• Own part of the company you’re helping grow through stock options
• Private health insurance
• Annual training budget
• Plum Premium for free
• 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
• Team breakfasts and team lunches
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• 45 work-from-anywhere days to give you flexibility to work your way
• 2 weeks sabbatical after 4 years to take the break you deserve
• Enhanced parental leave
• 1 paid volunteering day annually
• Annual team trip to a surprise destination!
• A fun, inclusive company culture (think)

If you think this sounds like you, don’t hesitate to get in touch!

Thanks,

Plum Team

*Plum is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need