Backend Engineer

Plum Fintech; Ohio; Hybrid; USD 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Private health insurance

Annual training budget

Work-from-anywhere days

Office presence 2 days/week (London/Ah

Office presence 2 days/week (London,-

Job summary

Plum Fintech is seeking a Backend Engineer to join the Engineering team and help deliver the best product to customers. You will contribute to pragmatic, product-minded engineering and work with a collaborative team to continuously improve how we build software.

You will work with Kotlin with Spring Boot and Python with FastAPI, across Postgres and BigQuery, on GCP infrastructure (Kubernetes, Docker). The role offers a base salary with equity and a hybrid work model, with 2 in-office days per

Qualifications

• Proficient backend development with modern languages and frameworks.
• Ability to design modular, scalable architectures.
• Experience with testable, high-quality code.

Responsibilities

• Apply pragmatic problem-solving to complex challenges.
• Plan and prioritize to deliver high-impact work.
• Drive continuous improvement of processes and quality.
• Mentor more junior team members.
• Share product insights and challenge decisions when needed.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners on design and retrospectives.
• Work with Python and Kotlin across microservices.

Skills

Kotlin

Python

Spring Boot

FastAPI

PostgreSQL

BigQuery

Kubernetes

Docker

GCP

Distributed systems

Tools

Jenkins

Job description

The Team & The Role

We’re looking for a Backend Engineer to join our Engineering team and play a key role in bringing the best product to our customers. You’ll work closely with Product team, bringing your expertise to help us achieve this mission.

This role is perfect for someone who combines pragmatism with strong product thinking, enjoys solving complex problems, and thrives in a collaborative environment where they can challenge ideas, share insights, and continuously improve how we build.

What You Will Do

• Apply a pragmatic approach to solving problems and making decisions
• Plan and prioritize effectively to deliver high-impact work
• Drive continuous improvement by identifying process efficiencies and quality improvements
• Guide and mentor more junior team members
• Share product insights with stakeholders and challenge product decisions when needed
• Collaborate within a cross-functional team and contribute to technical, design, and retrospective discussions
• Work comfortably with both strongly and dynamically typed languages, bringing your programming skills and problem-solving approach to the team regardless of whether Python is your primary language

What We Look For

• 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

We offer a compensation package consisting of base salary and equity, with compensation reviewed twice a year as part of our performance and growth framework.

The salary range (annually gross) for this position is:

• 30,000-50,000

Final compensation will be confirmed at the end of the hiring process and will be based on the level at which the candidate is assessed, taking into account their experience, expertise, and alignment with our internal competencies and leveling framework.

Plum Perks

• We’re all in this together! Own part of the company through stock options
• Private health insurance
• Annual training budget
• Plum Max subscription for yourself and Boost for 2 friends or family members
• Referral scheme: earn competitive rewards up to 4k
• 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: giving you the flexibility to work your way
• 2 weeks & 6 weeks sabbatical after 4 years and 8 years respectively to take the break you deserve
• Enhanced parental leave
• Wedding allowance
• 1 paid volunteering day annually
• Annual team trip: to a surprise destination!
• A fun, inclusive company culture (think )

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!

Thanks,

Team Plum

* 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.