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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Backend Engineer - **Company:** Plum Fintech - **Location:** UK (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** BigQuery, Computer Programming, Data Stores, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Prometheus, Software Construction, Datadog, Grafana, Spring-boot, Backend, Fastapi, Kotlin, Kubernetes, Sentry, Terraform, Docker - **Published:** September 5, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-backend-engineer-plum-fintech-7735506 ## About the Role * 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! ## Description 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., * 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. 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