ABOUT US

Pliant is a modular B2B payments platform that combines commercial card issuing, payment accounts, FX, and spend management in one system — adapting to existing setups rather than requiring customers to replace them.

Businesses across industries such as travel, e-commerce, and insurance use Pliant to manage complex payment workflows with cards, backed by credit lines Pliant underwrites itself.

Fintechs and software platforms embed Pliant's payment infrastructure into their own products, from API-based Cards-as-a-Service to fully white-label solutions. Banks use Pliant's Card & Spend OS, the customer-facing interface, on their own infrastructure to run card programs.

Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Berlin, Pliant serves 5,000+ businesses and 40+ partners across Europe and the United States. A principal member of Visa and Mastercard, Pliant issues commercial cards in 13 currencies across 32 countries — under its own European e-money license and with licensed partners in the UK and US.

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. We’re 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 (m/f/d). 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 don’t 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

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.

At Pliant we use the Ashby AI Criteria to assist with looking over resumes against our job qualifications for this role. All final decisions are made by our Talent Team and Hiring Team.

A human is behind these processes. Ashby does not automatically reject candidates or make final hiring decisions. Our teams review all results and make the final hiring decision with every candidate that applies.