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# Senior Backend Engineer

- **Company:** Plum Fintech
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £50,000.0 - £90,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, BigQuery, Cloud Computing, Python (Programming Language), RabbitMQ, Prometheus, Datadog, Grafana, Spring-boot, Backend, Kotlin, Kubernetes, Docker
- **Published:** September 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5878316022

## About the Role

* 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

## 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


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