Senior Backend Engineer

Plum is a smart saving and investing app on a mission to help grow money for life. We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team and help us achieve our mission.

Requirements

• 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
• 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

Benefits

• Own part of the company you're helping grow through stock options
• Private health insurance
• Annual training budget
• Plum Premium for free
• Competitive referral scheme
• Flexible approach to remote working
• Team breakfasts and team lunches
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• 45 work-from-anywhere days
• 2 weeks sabbatical after 4 years
• Enhanced parental leave
• 1 paid volunteering day annually
• Annual team trip to a surprise destination