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# Senior Software Engineer - Backend - Workflows & Policies *EU/UK remote*

- **Company:** Pliant
- **Location:** Germany (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Computer Programming, Relational Databases, Distributed Systems, PostgreSQL, Spring-boot, Backend, Agentic-AI, Front End Software Development, Restful APIs, Terraform, Docker, Microservices
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-software-engineer-backend-workflows-policies-eu-uk-remote-m-f-d-pliant-10707479

## About the Role

* 5+ years of relevant experience with Java and Spring Boot.
 * Expertise in building testable, maintainable, and extendable architecture, with care for engineering craft and the trade-offs behind technical decisions.
 * Knowledge of distributed architecture patterns and antipatterns.
 * Proficiency with REST APIs and solid working knowledge of relational databases (we use PostgreSQL).
 * Experience with agentic programming.
 * Experience with AWS and Docker.
 * Bonus: experience with Terraform.

## Description

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Backend, Workflows & Policies (m/f/d) to join one of our cross-functional teams of frontend and backend engineers, product managers, and designers. The team builds and maintains the solutions that put customers in control of their company spending: configurable approval policies for card requests and bank transfers, AI-assisted transaction review, and automated reimbursement of personal spend by employees, all supported by task-driven workflows across the Pliant platform. This is high-impact, high-scale engineering at the core of a fast-growing fintech, where precision, resilience, and smart execution directly shape how money moves for thousands of organisations.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

 * Conceptualise, define, and develop our banking platform.
 * Ensure a scalable, maintainable, and secure microservice architecture.
 * Design and evolve RESTful APIs 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.