[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer @Pliant

Role Description

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Backend, Workflows & Policies (m/f/d) to join one of our cross-functional teams of frontend and backend engineers, product managers, and designers. The team builds and maintains the solutions that put customers in control of their company spending:

• Configurable approval policies for card requests and bank transfers
• AI-assisted transaction review
• Automated reimbursement of personal spend by employees
• Task-driven workflows across the Pliant platform

This is high-impact, high-scale engineering at the core of a fast-growing fintech, where precision, resilience, and smart execution directly shape how money moves for thousands of organisations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience with Java and Spring Boot
• Expertise in building testable, maintainable, and extendable architecture
• Knowledge of distributed architecture patterns and antipatterns
• Proficiency with REST APIs
• Solid working knowledge of relational databases (we use PostgreSQL)
• Experience with agentic programming
• Experience with AWS and Docker
• Bonus: experience with Terraform

Requirements

• Conceptualise, define, and develop our banking platform
• Ensure a scalable, maintainable, and secure microservice architecture
• Design and evolve RESTful APIs 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

Benefits

• The opportunity to work in a growing team with big responsibilities that thrives on a strong exchange of knowledge and excellence
• 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