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# Software Engineer

- **Company:** Pliant
- **Location:** Germany (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Microsoft Windows, Automation of Tests, Relational Databases, Distributed Systems, PostgreSQL, Software Engineering, ReactJS, Spring-boot, Kotlin, Event Driven Architecture, Front End Software Development, Virtual Agents, Restful APIs, Terraform, Microservices
- **Published:** September 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/software-engineer-backend-partner-experience-eu-uk-remote-m-f-d-pliant-8646888

## About the Role

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!, * 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

BONUS POINTS

 * 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

## Description

We are hiring a Software Engineer - Backend - Partner Experience. As part of the Engineering department, you will join one of our cross-functional teams of frontend and backend engineers, product managers, and designers., * 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)


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