Senior Software Engineer - Backend - Workflows & Policies *EU/UK remote* (m/f/d)

The role

You will join a cross-functional team to build and maintain solutions for company spending control. This includes configurable approval policies, AI-assisted transaction review, and automated reimbursement through task-driven workflows.

What you will do

• Conceptualise, define, and develop our banking platform.
• Ensure a scalable, maintainable, and secure microservice architecture.
• Design and evolve RESTful APIs for products and partner integrations.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and technical RFCs.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve production services performance and reliability.
• Implement unit, integration, and E2E tests.

Required 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 (PostgreSQL).
• Experience with agentic programming.
• Experience with AWS and Docker.

Nice to have

• experience with Terraform

Benefits

• Attractive remuneration
• Your choice of preferred OS, Windows or Mac
• Flat hierarchy and transparent communication
• Flexibility and possibility to work remotely
• Monthly mobility benefit
• Wellhub Membership
• Pliant Card with monthly credit

About the company

Pliant is a modular B2B payments platform combining commercial card issuing, payment accounts, FX and spend management for businesses and AI agents. Headquartered in Berlin, it serves businesses and partners across Europe and North America.