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Pliant

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2020

💳 Fintech

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

💰 $40M Series B - Pliant on 2025-04

Fintech • SaaS • B2B

Pliant is a credit card platform that enables businesses, banks, and fintechs to issue and manage credit cards, automate payments, and optimize spend and accounting workflows. Pliant offers Payment Apps, a Pro API for card issuance and automation, Cards-as-a-Service (CaaS) and Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) to embed or white-label card programs, plus global accounts, FX and transfers, credit & financing, and compliance and enablement services. It serves corporations, e-commerce, resellers, SaaS companies, travel and marketing agencies, and banks with features like real-time monitoring, spend controls, receipt management, integrations with accounting and expense systems, single-use virtual cards, and API-driven automation. Pliant holds e-money licensing in the EU, issues cards in the UK, is PCI DSS and ISO/IEC 27001 certified, and focuses on B2B payment optimization and embedded finance solutions.

📋 Description

• Own the roadmap for Platform Core's Terraform infrastructure, multi-account AWS setup, and IAM/networking foundations • Run Platform Core as an internal product, ensuring Spacelift guardrails, sensitive-resource checks, and mandatory tagging policies help engineering teams • Collaborate with Security Engineering to embed access controls and compliance requirements into the platform • Steer the compute migration from ECS/Fargate to Kubernetes through completion • Manage and grow the team through 1:1s, hiring, and performance development • Coordinate with the future SRE team and other platform functions as the organization scales • Meet the existing team and understand current systems before making changes • Establish a trusted roadmap and advance the ECS-to-Kubernetes migration

🎯 Requirements

• 7–10 years in software or infrastructure engineering • At least 3 years managing engineers directly • Hands-on depth with Terraform, multi-account AWS, and container or serverless compute • Production experience running these systems at scale • Experience operating infrastructure as an internal platform depended on daily by other teams • High standards for incident and change management • Demonstrated track record of hiring and developing engineers, including leveling or promoting people • Datadog or equivalent observability experience at scale • Clear, confident communication for a technical, cross-team audience • Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools such as Copilot, Claude Code, or Cursor • Equal rigor reviewing AI-generated pull requests as any other pull request

🏖️ Benefits

• Attractive remuneration • 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