Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Pliant is a European fintech specializing in B2B payment solutions through a modular, API-first platform for spending management, embedded finance, and payment workflows. The Senior Software Engineer will build and operate highly available backend services for card issuance and transaction processing, while scaling the platform, improving observability and reliability, leading incident response, and delivering features across Java/Spring Boot microservices.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- 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
- Payments, card issuing, or transaction processing domain experience
- Experience with PCI DSS certification or operating in a PCI DSS environment
- Exposure to fraud detection or prevention
- Experience with chaos/resilience testing, capacity planning, or load testing
- Hands-on experience implementing safe deployment practices such as canary deployments, blue/green, or progressive rollouts
Benefits
- Share in a fair, well-compensated 24/7 on-call rotation
- 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
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