Software Engineer - Backend - Partner and Developer Experience EU/UK remote (m/f/d)

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 Pliant’s 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

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.

We are hiring a Software Engineer - Backend - Partner and Developer Experience EU/UK remote (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!

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)

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

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