Software Engineer II (Backend)

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.

• 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

• 3+ years of experience in shipping backend applications with expertise in one or more backend technologies such as Node.js, Java, Python, Go, or similar.

• Experience with frameworks like Express (Node.js), Spring Boot (Java), Django (Python), or equivalent.

• 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.