As a Software Engineer III - Backend at Plum, you will design and implement high-performance APIs, write reusable code, collaborate with product management, and advocate for product quality and security improvements. You will have a significant role overseeing projects from conception to production.
About Plum
Plum is an employee insurance and health benefits platform focused on making health insurance simple, accessible and inclusive for modern organizations.
Healthcare in India is seeing a phenomenal shift with inflation in healthcare costs 3x that of general inflation. A majority of Indians are unable to afford health insurance on their own; and so as many as 600mn Indians will likely have to depend on employer-sponsored insurance.
Plum is on a mission to provide the highest quality insurance and healthcare to 10 million lives by FY2030, through companies that care. Plum is backed by Tiger Global and Peak XV Partners.
Roles and Responsibilities:-
- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant APIs.
- Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code to build features and improvements to the Plum product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.
- Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering (Frontend, UX, etc.) to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
- Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance.
Experience and Qualifications:-
- 5+ years of experience in shipping backend applications with expertise in one or more technologies such as Node.js, Java, Ruby on Rails, Python, Go, or similar.
- Experience with frameworks like Express (Node.js), Spring Boot (Java), Rails (Ruby on Rails), Django (Python), or equivalent.
- Experience with NextJS and TypeScript is a plus.
- Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system.
- Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable API infrastructure.
- Shows the drive for owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
- Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills.
- Having experience maintaining a production-grade open-source project is a plus.
Top Skills
Go
Java
Node.js
Python
Ruby
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