Help set product direction. You’ll contribute to both the technical architecture and the roadmap, balancing customer feedback with long-term product health.
Ship features end to end. You’ll scope, build, and launch product features that directly solve customer problems.
Shape our backend architecture. You’ll tackle some of our most complex challenges, from data modeling to high-performance reporting, and help set the standard for how we build across the company.
Create a stellar developer experience. From data pipelines to APIs, you’ll make sure Plain is not only great to use but also great to build on.

Thrive in early ideation stages, love sharing work-in-progress, and enjoy the balance of making trade-offs in order to ship high impact products.
Are impact driven and motivated by seeing customers succeed. You measure the quality of your work by the end-experience of users, not the abstractions or cleanliness of the code.
Have a proven track record working for product-led companies, ideally in B2B SaaS.
You’re autonomous and able to prioritise your workload. You know when to take a shortcut and when to invest in long-term infrastructure.
Have experience working with distributed, serverless systems, and have worked on similar web applications with a high quality and performance bar before
Are equally at home in architectural conversations as you are in customer conversations.
Can learn new technologies and paradigms quickly and independently.

Senior Product Engineer, Backend

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