Senior Backend Engineer - Payments Platform (Remote)

Pliant; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Monthly mobility benefit

Wellhub Membership

Pliant Card with monthly credit to use

Job summary

Pliant is a modular B2B payments platform enabling cards, accounts, FX, and spend management across multiple currencies. The role focuses on designing a scalable banking platform and secure microservices, collaborating with product, design, and frontend teams to deliver robust APIs and reliable services.

Join a growing team with opportunities to influence architecture, analytics, and testing strategies while enjoying flexible remote work options, and access to Wellhub and Pliant Card benefits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience with Java and Spring Boot.
• Experience with building testable, maintainable architecture.
• Knowledge of distributed architecture patterns and antipatterns.
• Proficiency with REST APIs and PostgreSQL.
• Experience with agentic programming.
• Experience with AWS and Docker.
• Bonus: Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Conceptualise, define, and develop our banking platform.
• Ensure scalable, maintainable, and secure microservice architecture.
• Design and evolve RESTful APIs powering products and partner integrations.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and RFCs across engineering.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and frontend engineers in cross-functional teams.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve production services.
• Implement unit, integration, and E2E tests.

Skills

Java & Spring Boot

REST APIs

Distributed architecture patterns

Relational databases (PostgreSQL)

Testing (unit/integration/E2E)

Agentic programming

AWS

Docker

Tools

AWS

Docker

Terraform

Job description

Pliant is a modular B2B payments platform enabling cards, accounts, FX, and spend management across multiple currencies. The role focuses on designing a scalable banking platform and secure microservices, collaborating with product, design, and frontend teams to deliver robust APIs and reliable services.

Join a growing team with opportunities to influence architecture, analytics, and testing strategies while enjoying flexible remote work options, and access to Wellhub and Pliant Card benefits.