Software Engineer - Backend

Remotedxb; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 480,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flat hierarchy

Wellhub Membership

Pliant Card with monthly credit

Monthly mobility benefit

Attractive remuneration

Job summary

Pliant is seeking an experienced backend engineer to conceptualize and develop our partner and developer experience platform. You will help design a scalable, secure microservice architecture and evolve RESTful APIs and MCP tools, while collaborating with product, design and frontend teams to deliver high-quality software.

The role emphasizes performance monitoring, troubleshooting and rigorous automated testing across unit, integration and end-to-end layers, ensuring robust production services

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience with Java/Kotlin and Spring Boot.
• Expertise in building testable, maintainable, scalable and extendable architecture.
• Proficiency with REST API, including authentication and authorization.
• Proficiency with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL.
• Experience with MCP server development.
• Experience using agentic AI in software development phases.
• Great automation testing skills.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and technical RFCs.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve the performance and reliability of production services.
• Implement unit, integration and E2E tests.

Skills

Java/Kotlin

Spring Boot

RESTful API design

Testing automation

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

PostgreSQL

MCP server development

Terraform

Event-Driven Architecture

React (frontend exposure)

Job description

About the Company

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. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Berlin, Pliant supports over 4,000 businesses and more than 20 partners globally.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Contribute to architectural decisions and technical RFCs
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve the performance and reliability of production services
• Implement unit, integration and E2E tests

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant experience with Java/Kotlin and Spring Boot
• Expertise in building testable, maintainable, scalable and extendable architecture
• Proficiency with REST API, including authentication and authorization
• Proficiency with relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL
• Experience with MCP server development
• Experience using agentic AI in software development phases
• Great automation testing skills
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Terraform
• Proficiency with Event Driven Architecture systems and patterns
• Experience in building scalable distributed systems in the financial vertical
• Exposure to frontend development with React

Benefits

• Attractive remuneration
• Choice of preferred OS (Windows or Mac)
• Flat hierarchy and transparent communication
• Monthly mobility benefit
• Wellhub Membership
• Pliant Card with monthly credit