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Plain

SaaS platform unifying multi-channel customer support

Product Engineer - Full Stack

Full-Time
£75k - £105k/yr
Mid
London, UK
HybridThree days on-site per week required.
Software EngineeringFull-Stack Engineering

About the job

Requirements
  • Have shipped features end-to-end in fast-paced environments.
  • Take initiative and demonstrate strong agency by identifying priorities, driving momentum, and improving outcomes.
  • Be impact-driven and motivated by customer success, evaluating work by the end-user experience.
  • Want to work closely with customers and shape product decisions.
  • Care about craft and building simple, powerful, and polished products.
  • Be comfortable with ambiguity in an early-stage company that is constantly trying new things.
  • Prefer established, productive technologies over experimental and novel options; Postgres is cited as an established option.
  • Want to remain an individual contributor rather than manage others.
Responsibilities
  • Build across the stack, including frontend interfaces, backend logic, and related components.
  • Ship high-impact features that are fast, reliable, and delightful.
  • Contribute to product and technical direction in close collaboration with design, engineering, and founders.
  • Collaborate closely with customers to understand their problems and solve them elegantly.
  • Help shape a fast-moving, product-centric engineering culture.

About the company

Plain provides a SaaS B2B customer support platform that unifies Slack, Teams, Discord, email, and chat into a single inbox via an API-first interface, enabling collaboration among support, engineering, and customer success teams. It uses AI-powered workflows to automate tasks, draft responses, and extract product insights. Key features include issue tracking, a themeable chat UI, and a configurable data model for custom customer data such as early access, bug reports, and product feedback. Pricing is subscription-based based on active customers (not seats), with a free tier for up to 50 monthly active customers and plans that scale with usage; the company also aims to expand to San Francisco to better serve U.S. customers.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$22M

Headquarters

London, United Kingdom

Founded

2020

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What believers are saying

  • Plain raised $15 million in February 2025, funding San Francisco expansion and hiring.
  • 2026 product updates added Ari, Sidekick, BYOA, and a native MCP server.
  • Public customer logos and use cases keep expanding across Vercel, Clerk, and Fly.io.

What critics are saying

  • Zendesk's May 2026 Autonomous Service Workforce directly attacks Plain's AI support wedge.
  • Pylon's 2025 Series B and 750-plus customers intensify competition for B2B support.
  • Plain depends on developer-tool customers; churn from one platform shift hits revenue quickly.

What makes Plain unique

  • API-first inbox unifies Slack, Teams, Discord, email, and chat for B2B support.
  • Plain targets engineering-adjacent teams with GraphQL APIs and composable infrastructure.
  • Customers like Vercel, Sourcegraph, n8n, Sanity, and Raycast validate product-market fit.

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Benefits

  • Hybrid Work Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

1%

1 year growth

5%

2 year growth

-1%
Startbase
Feb 14th, 2025
Startupnews KW 7 - 25

Plain is developing a support platform for B2B companies that enables seamless, AI-powered customer communication via real-time channels such as Slack, Microsoft Teams and Discord.

EU-Startups
Feb 10th, 2025
Plain raises €14.5 million to develop their collaborative B2B support platform | EU-Startups

London-based Plain, a platform innovating B2B customer support, today announced it has raised €14.5 million in Series A funding to develop their

Department of Product
Nov 2nd, 2023
Product Briefing - November 16, 2023

To prove that, Plain integrates with other product favorites like Linear and Slack and some of its most powerful features include the ability to embed bug report forms directly into your product along with a feature that integrates real customer data into specific support issues.

TechCrunch
Nov 9th, 2022
Plain is a new customer support tool with a focus on API integrations

Plain focuses on API integrations to make your company’s product and your support platform work hand in hand.