Backend Engineer
Plum Fintech, Cyprus
Job Description
At Plum, we're on a mission to maximise wealth for all. We’re making saving money effortless and turning investing into something everyone can do. Our journey began back in 2017, when we became one of the first to use artificial intelligence and automation to simplify personal finance. Fast forward to today, and we've already helped people save 2 billion across 10 European markets.
Named the UK's fastest-growing fintech in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50, our success is down to the passion and dedication of our diverse team. Based in our London, Athens and Nicosia offices, 170 talented people work together to empower people to do more with their money. And now, the team is growing!
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
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:
- 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
Plum's Perks
- We're all in this together! Own part of the company through stock options
- Annual training budget
- Private Life Insurance - Ethniki Asfalistiki
- Provident Fund - Ancoria Bank
- Free Plum Premium subscription (normally 9.99 a month).
- Free parking slots
- 22 days holiday a year, excluding public holidays (34 in total)
- Employee referral scheme up to 4000
- Flexible approach to remote working, though we encourage at least 2-3 days a week in our beautiful office in Nicosia for optimal collaboration.
- 45 days work from anywhere
- Team lunch on Thursdays in the office, as well as a plentiful supply of fruit, snacks and coffee.
- 1 day paid leave for volunteering, supporting you giving back to society.
- 2 weeks paid sabbatical after four years of service.
- Team trip to secret destinations once a year
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If you think this sounds like a bit of you then don’t hesitate to get in touch!
Thanks,
Plum eam
* Plum is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Plum does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.