Job Opportunities API

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 230+ 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 projects. Please note we are following a hybrid work model, in which we visit our office 2 times per week. We’re looking for a Backend Engineer and these are the main qualities you should ideally possess if you want to be part of the team: Qualifications: 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 Comfortable working within a cross functional team, collaborative environment, ability to partake in and contribute to technical, design and retrospective dialog Comfortable working with both strongly and dynamically typed languages, we believe you can bring valuable insights and perspectives to the team, even if Python is not your primary language. We care more about your overall programming skills and approach to problem-solving! Key Responsibilities: 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 What to Expect from Our Hiring Process At Plum, we value a lot the time you devote to the hiring process, this is why we are always trying to make the process as fast and smooth as possible.  30 min. Call with ourTalent Acquisition Team. So we understand better your career plan, tell you more about Plum and the role ⚙️ 45 min. Call with our Engineering Lead. Brief technical discussion about the role and your skills 🏄 120 min. Live Coding Call with our Engineers, including System Design exercise and an Implementation phase🧑‍💻 30 min. TeamCall with a Product Manager and a Senior Manager from Engineering, for you to understand the business and envision yourself as part of Plum 🧬  Offer 💵 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 t