Software Engineer III (Backend)

Job description

**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. **Role 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 **Role Requirements** • 5-7 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.