Software Engineer

ABOUT US Pliant is a European fintech specializing in B2B payment solutions. Our modular, API-first platform helps businesses streamline spending, improve cash flow, and integrate payments into their financial workflows. Designed for industries with complex payment needs, such as travel and fleet, Pliant enables greater efficiency, control, and profitability. We serve two primary customer segments: - Companies looking to optimize operational processes through intuitive apps and APIs, gaining control, automation, and financial flexibility through extended credit lines. - Businesses such as financial software platforms, ERP providers, and banks that want to launch or enhance their credit card offerings using Pliants embedded finance and white-label solutions. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Berlin, Pliant supports over 4,000 businesses and more than 20 partners globally. As a licensed e-money institution (EMI), we issue credit cards in 11 currencies across more than 30 countries, helping companies streamline and simplify payments. Learn more at www.getpliant.com About The Team We build partner and developer experience, ranging from white label to API and MCP. We provide platform, governance, tooling and documentation to enable self service for our external partners and customers, as well as for our internal teams. Were a distributed team with a strong focus on delivery and a shared drive to advance our domain and streamline user experience. ABOUT THE ROLE We are hiring a Software Engineer - Backend - Partner Experience. As part of the Engineering department, you will join one of our cross-functional teams of frontend and backend engineers, product managers, and designers. You will be playing a key role in delivering innovative features paired with a great user experience to our business customers and internal teams. For this purpose, you have good attention to detail and dont just work on code but bring a product to life! WHAT YOU'LL DO - Conceptualize, define and develop our partner and developer experience platform - Ensure a scalable, maintainable, and secure microservice architecture - Design and evolve RESTful API, MCP tools and customizable components that power both our own products and partner integrations - Contribute to architectural decisions and technical RFCs across the engineering group - Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers in a cross-functional team - Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve the performance and reliability of production services - Implement unit, integration and E2E tests - Participate in our compensated on-call rotation to support production systems (optional) - Contribute to our hiring process as an interviewer (optional) WHAT YOU'LL BRING - Expertise in building testable, maintainable, scalable and extendable architecture - Passion for, and discipline with, the best engineering practices - Knowledge of distributed architecture patterns and anti-patterns - 5+ years of relevant experience with Java/Kotlin and Spring Boot - Proficiency with REST API, including exposure to authentication and authorization topics - Proficiency with relational databases (preferably PostgreSQL) - Experience with MCP server development - Experience using agentic AI in all phases of software development - Great automation testing skills - Strong cross-functional collaboration skills BONUS POINTS - Experience with Terraform - Proficiency with Event Driven Architecture systems and patterns - Experience in building scalable distributed systems, with a preference for financial vertical - Exposure to, and understanding of, frontend development with React WHAT WE OFFER - The opportunity to work in a growing team with challenging responsibilities, owning partner and developer experience - Attractive remuneration - Your choice of preferred OS, Windows or Mac - Flat hierarchy and transparent communication in a relaxed, professional atmosphere - Opportunity to develop your talent in a dynamic team with ambitious goals - Flexibility and possibility to work remotely - Monthly mobility benefit - Wellhub Membership - Pliant Card with monthly credit to explore the product and enjoy food with colleagues We also know that great candidates don't always tick every box on a job description. If this role excites you but your experience doesn't perfectly match every requirement listed, we still encourage you to apply. You might bring strengths, perspectives, or potential we hadn't even thought to ask for—and we'd rather hear from you than miss the chance to meet you. Pliant is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and abilities, and are committed to an inclusive hiring process. If you need any accommodations during the interview process, please let us know