Remote Backend Developer

Remote
Roles:
Backend
One of skills:
KotlinRustJavaGoScala
Nice-to-have skills:
KubernetesAzureSwiftAWSGraphQLSQL
Considering candidates from:
Estonia
Work arrangement: Remote
Industry: Financial Services
Language: English
Level: Senior
Required experience: 5+ years
Size: 11 - 50 employees
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Remote Backend Developer

Remote
Pluto is the finance workflow automation & spend management platform of choice for businesses with 100-5,000+ employees.

Pluto combines the power of getting access to instant issuance unlimited corporate cards, full end-to-end reimbursements, petty cash & account payables management all within one platform.

No more chasing for receipts, manually approving invoices on long e-mail threads or sharing one corporate card with several people. Pluto's enterprise platform brings control back to complex finance and accounting business processes and creates a streamlined approach to controlling your company's spending.

The best part? One-click sync all of your Pluto transactions to all major ERPs including Oracle Netsuite, Microsoft Dynamics, Xero, Zoho & more.

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Pluto is also proud to be one of the few platforms to be independently PCI DSS Level 1 Certified – the highest level of bank card compliance security.
What You'll Do

  • Design and develop Pluto's flagship products and build complex, resilient payments infrastructure
  • Play a pivotal role in architecting and building critical payment processing, ledgering, and financial reconciliation systems
  • Architect and implement robust integrations with various payment rails and financial APIs
  • Lead the development lifecycle of features and work streams from design to deployment
  • Become a voracious problem solver who can tackle difficult issues on tight timelines, manage cross-functional dependencies and set an exemplary bar for engineering within the organization
  • Write and maintain clean, maintainable and testable code, leveraging design patterns and architecture where appropriate
  • Participate in code reviews, pair-programming sessions and provide constructive feedback to peers
  • Develop a strong understanding of the domain and bring a deep product and design mindset while building solutions

Bonus Points

  • Previous work experience in the banking or fintech
  • Familiarity with financial industry frameworks and technologies such as payment gateways, transaction processing systems, or financial messaging protocols (e.g ISO 20022, ISO8583, SWIFT, SEPA, or Open Banking APIs)
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure and experienced in deploying and managing applications in a cloud environment
  • Experience with Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms
  • Experience with JVM tuning, configuration & metrics

Our Tech Stack

  •  Frontend: React, TypeScript
  •  Backend: Kotlin, GraphQL, Temporal
  •  Database: Postgres, AWS Aurora
  •  Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform
  •  Observability: Datadog, Cloudwatch, Lightstep

Requirements

Who We're Looking For

  • 5+ years of professional experience as a software engineer (with a focus on payments/fintech)
  • Extensive experience in developing and integrating with banking and card scheme protocols
  • Experience in working with third-party APIs and integrating external financial services into backend systems
  • Mastery in at least one programming language (e.g Kotlin, Java, Go, Scala, Rust)
  • Deep understanding of relational and non-relational databases and distributed systems
  • Strong grasp of SQL and relational data modelling
  • Experienced with API design and development (e.g GraphQL, REST, RPC)
  • Experience in designing and developing scalable, secure and reliable backend systems
  • Strong understanding of SDLC, software design principles, architectural and integration patterns
  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to analyze and debug complex software systems
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams. 

Our Values

At Pluto, we live by the following core values:

  •  Directly Responsible Individuals (DRI): We empower team members with autonomy to own their projects and outcomes fully, fostering a culture of accountability, clarity and outsized impact. As the DRI you are the driver of success for your projects — proactively identifying, communicating and mitigating risks and resolving blockers to ensure success
  •  Clear Communication: At Pluto, we emphasize clear, transparent communication as fundamental to our success. We strive for clarity, succinctness and transparency in all interactions, ensuring that every message is articulated clearly and understood universally across our teams. This commitment to clarity reduces misunderstandings and fosters a more productive environment especially for distributed teams
  •  Systems Thinking & First Principles Reasoning: We love to deconstruct problems and innovate from the ground up. By understanding complex systems and questioning assumptions, we are able to develop creative solutions to difficult problems
  •  Fact-centric: We are intentional about questioning our assumptions, and bringing the facts to focus by diving into the data, quick-fire experimentation & swift prototyping. We make room for varied perspectives & calibrate our goals with metrics that track our progress, and accurately reflect reality

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation & stock options so you have skin in the game
  • Remote-first work environment
  • We'll ship you a new MacBook
  • Monthly fitness benefit up to $100 USD
  • Home-office budget up to $1000 USD
  • Discretionary learning budget