Plum
201-500 employees
Financial Services
Fintech
Personal Finance
Software Development
About Plum
Plum is a UK-based fintech company that provides an AI-powered personal finance assistant designed to help users save money, invest, and manage their finances more effectively. Founded in 2016, Plum uses machine learning to analyze users' spending habits and automatically set aside money, offering features such as savings automation, investment options, and bill negotiation. The company aims to simplify personal finance management and empower users to make smarter financial decisions. Plum operates primarily in the UK market and has grown rapidly, serving hundreds of thousands of customers with its mobile app and web platform.
5 months ago
Senior Backend Engineer
Athens - Hybrid
Full-time
Senior
Senior Backend Engineer
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Description
- Hey! We’re Plum, your smart saving and investing app on a mission to help grow money for life. Whether you’re stashing the cash for tea and toast in your first home or catching some rays during retirement, Plum’s got your back.
- Since 2016, over 2 million people in 10 European markets have set aside more than £2 billion with our clever automation and AI – that’s the magic of Plum! As recognition for our work, we’ve received awards from the likes of Deloitte, Finder, and more.
- That’s all down to our passionate team of 200+ Plumsters, who work around Europe to help us achieve our mission. And now we’re looking for more brilliant people to join us on our journey.
- The Role
- At Plum we’re looking for engineers who are passionate about both technology but also about bringing the best product to our customers.
- To achieve this mission we’re looking for engineers who not only have a strong technical background but who also understand the product and are able to make an impact on all the steps of the product development lifecycle.
- We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer and these are the main qualities you should ideally possess if you want to be part of the team:
- Qualifications:
- 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
- Share product insight with stakeholders and challenge product decisions
- Capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and organizational challenges and propose 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, with a focus on overall programming skills and problem-solving!
- Key Responsibilities:
- Create and design modular, scalable, testable, performant systems with well-defined endpoints using best practices
- Identify root causes of system issues and determine resolutions
- Build and ship new products quickly, iterating based on feedback
- Work across the entire software lifecycle
- Our Tech Stack:
- Languages: Python
- Libraries: FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Flask
- Datastores: Postgres, BigQuery, DBT, Redis, MongoDB
- Infrastructure: GCP (kubernetes, docker), RabbitMQ, Amazon S3, Terraform
- Monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, Incident.io, Sentry
- What to Expect from Our Hiring Process
- 30 min. Call with Talent Acquisition
- 45 min. Call with Engineering Lead
- 120 min. Live Coding Session
- 30 min. Team Call with Product and Senior Managers
- Offer
- Plum's Perks:
- Stock options
- Private health insurance
- Annual training budget
- Free Plum Premium
- Referral scheme
- Flexible remote work (at least 2 days in London, Athens, or Cyprus)
- Team breakfasts and lunches
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- 45 work-from-anywhere days
- 2 weeks sabbatical after 4 years
- Parental leave
- 1 paid volunteering day annually
- Annual team trip
- Inclusive culture
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Benefits
- Stock options
- Private health insurance
- Annual training budget
- Free Plum Premium
- Referral scheme
- Flexible approach to remote working (at least 2 days a week in London, Athens or Cyprus)
- 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