Backend Engineer

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. #J-18808-Ljbffr Plum Fintech