Senior Backend Engineer

Plum Fintech
London, UK
4 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Compensation
£50,000.0 - £90,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence BigQuery Cloud Computing Python (Programming Language) RabbitMQ Prometheus Datadog Grafana Spring-boot Backend Kotlin Kubernetes
+1 more
Docker

Job description

  • Create and design modular, scalable, testable, tested, performant systems that interface via well-defined endpoints using software engineering best practices
  • Identify the root cause of system issues and determine short- and long-term resolutions
  • Adapt to building new and novel products, shipping quickly, and iterating based on feedback
  • Work across the full lifecycle of the software

Technologies:

  • AI
  • Python
  • BigQuery
  • Backend
  • Cloud
  • Datadog
  • Docker
  • EAM
  • GCP
  • Grafana
  • Kotlin
  • Kubernetes
  • Prometheus
  • Product Manager
  • RabbitMQ
  • Spring
  • Spring Boot

Requirements

  • At least 5+ years of working experience as a Software Engineer
  • High level of pragmatism
  • Strong planning and prioritization skills
  • Ability to promote continuous improvement by identifying process efficiencies and quality improvements
  • Ability to guide and mentor more junior team members
  • Ability 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 working within a cross-functional, collaborative team environment and contributing to technical, design, and retrospective discussions
  • Self-motivated and self-managing, with excellent organizational skills
  • Comfortable working with both strongly and dynamically typed languages; Python does not need to be your primary language

About the company

We are Plum, building the proactive money platform that helps people smartly and sustainably grow their money. Since 2016, millions of people across 10 European markets have set aside more than 10 billion with us. We are now focused on the UK and beyond, combining AI-driven financial guidance with the products people actually need. You will join nearly 300 Plumsters in an ambitious, curious, and driven team that values ownership, collaboration, and trust. We offer stock options, private health insurance, an annual training budget, Plum Premium for free, a competitive referral scheme, a flexible remote-working approach with at least 2 days a week in our London, Athens, or Cyprus offices, team breakfasts and lunches, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, 45 work-from-anywhere days, a 2-week sabbatical after 4 years, enhanced parental leave, 1 paid volunteering day annually, and an annual team trip to a surprise destination. We are an equal opportunity employer with a fun, inclusive

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