Plum

 

We are making health insurance - simple, accessible and affordable. Hundreds of businesses of all sizes from startups to large corporates trust Plum for their employee's health protection.

 

Healthcare in India is seeing a phenomenal shift. Healthcare cost is seeing an inflation that is three times the general inflation. Treatments of diseases including Covid-19 can wipe out entire household savings. Majority of Indians won't be able to afford a health insurance on their own. As many as 600mn Indians would depend on employer-sponsored insurance.

 

Enter Plum. Plum is re-imagining the health insurance stack, and accelerating the penetration of health insurance in India to 100%. Plum has forged new underwriting and fraud detection algorithms to enable companies as small as 2 to benefit from a group insurance. The platform enables realtime insurance design & pricing to enable companies to buy insurance in 3-clicks. And offers employees a hassle-free claims experience through an integrated digital process.

 

Plum is backed by leading global investors including Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, Tanglin Ventures and Incubate Fund (read more https://www.plumhq.com/blog/plum-series-a-funding">here)


Roles and 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

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in shipping backend applications in NodeJs, with knowledge of Express. 
• Experience with NextJS and Typescript is a plus. 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.