Senior Backend Engineer

We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team at Plum, a smart saving and investing app. You'll be working on creating and designing modular, scalable systems using software engineering best practices, and will be responsible for guiding and mentoring junior team members. Our tech stack includes Kotlin, Spring Boot, Python, and more.

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: 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 to give you flexibility to work your way
• 2 weeks sabbatical after 4 years to take the break you deserve
• Enhanced parental leave
• 1 paid volunteering day annually
• Annual team trip to a surprise destination!