Senior Backend Engineer

We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team at Plum, a smart saving and investing app. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for creating and designing modular, scalable, testable, tested, performant systems and working with a cross-functional team to develop and maintain our software.

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

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