[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer - Backend - Card & Transaction Platform @Pliant

Role Description

The Card & Transaction Platform team keeps Pliant's most critical backend flows running: card issuance and transaction processing. The team holds itself to a high availability bar, getting there through solid engineering and a no-blame culture rather than heroics. With a fast-growing customer base and rising request volumes, this role is for an experienced backend engineer who anticipates problems and prevents them, building and shipping new product features on Java/Spring Boot microservices just as much as keeping them fast and reliable.

What You'll Do

• Define, measure, and improve SLOs/SLAs and error budgets for critical services.
• Help evolve and scale the platform to keep pace with a growing customer base and rising request volumes.
• Stay ahead of problems: spot weak points, risky patterns, and capacity limits early and address them before they affect customers.
• Share in a fair, well-compensated 24/7 on-call rotation and help lead incident response, from mitigation to blameless postmortem and follow-through.
• Own observability across dashboards, alerting, tracing, and logging (we use Datadog), and drive performance improvements across latency-sensitive paths.
• Design, build, and ship new product features end-to-end across Java/Spring Boot microservices, from API design through to rollout.
• Balance feature delivery with continuous improvement, collaborating with product and other engineering teams to turn requirements into reliable, well-tested services.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and operating modern distributed backend services on a Java/Spring Boot stack, with AWS cloud services, Kafka, and PostgreSQL.
• A track record with high-availability systems where reliability genuinely matters, including experience scaling systems under growing load.
• Fluency with a modern observability stack and solid SLO/SLA thinking.
• A proactive, ownership mindset: you look for the next problem before it happens rather than waiting for the alert.
• Comfortable owning features end-to-end, from design and implementation through testing and delivery.
• Hands-on, proven experience using AI effectively as an engineering tool, not a substitute for engineering judgment.

Requirements

• Payments, card issuing, or transaction processing domain experience (nice to have).
• Experience with PCI DSS certification or operating in a PCI DSS environment (nice to have).
• Exposure to fraud detection or prevention (nice to have).
• Experience with chaos/resilience testing, capacity planning, or load testing (nice to have).
• Hands-on experience implementing safe deployment practices such as canary deployments, blue/green, or progressive rollouts (nice to have).

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.
• Pliant Card with monthly credit to explore the product and enjoy food with colleagues.