Senior Backend Engineer

Join Plooto, a fast-growing fintech company, as a Senior Backend Engineer. In this role, you will have real ownership and impact as you design and build high-throughput, cloud-native systems that move money and deliver real-time financial insights. You will lead complex technical initiatives, make pragmatic architecture decisions, and partner closely with Product and Design. You will also have the opportunity to improve performance, reliability, and system resilience as we scale, and raise the engineering bar through thoughtful code reviews, design discussions, and mentorship.

Responsibilities

• Conception et livraison de services backend évolutifs en utilisant .NET et Azure.
• Architecture et évolution de systèmes distribués et orientés événements traitant des volumes élevés de transactions financières.
• Direction d'initiatives techniques complexes depuis la conception jusqu'au déploiement en production.

Requirements

• Ability to effectively use AI tools towards increasing velocity, efficiency and quality of deliverables
• Strong understanding of data storage patterns across RDBMS and NoSQL systems
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures (Kubernetes, serverless, managed services), ideally in Azure
• Experience implementing automated testing strategies (unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end testing)
• Experience with event-driven architectures and streaming systems (Kafka or similar)
• Previous track record working successfully in a cross-functional team environment
• 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience (preferably in high-growth or product-led environments)
• Computer Science degree or equivalent
• Proven track record of writing production-grade, testable, maintainable code

A bias toward ownership, action, and accountability

• Deep experience designing and building RESTful APIs in production
• Strong expertise in C# (or another strongly typed language) and modern backend design principles
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive clarity in fast-moving environments
• Experience building or operating distributed, high-throughput systems

Preferred

• Experience in fintech, payments, or regulated domains
• Prior startup experience where you helped scale systems and teams