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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

• Lead and Develop the Team: Manage a high-performing, interdisciplinary engineering team, while supporting the team with up to 50% hands-on development in the beginning. • Mentor and Grow Talent: Foster open communication, career development, and engineering excellence by championing best practices like test-driven bug fixing, automated testing, continuous integration and daily deployments to production. • Collaborate with Stakeholders: Work closely with product managers, backend and frontend engineers, and non-technical teams to align on business goals, deliver high-quality features, and manage changes, bug fixes, and new initiatives. • Drive Technical Direction: Guide the team in technical discussions to find innovative solutions, steer timelines for releases, and ensure automation and operational excellence are front and center in scaling the Pliant platform for rapid growth. • Manage OKRs and Continuous Improvement: Set and track quarterly team OKRs together with the product manager. Promote innovation, knowledge sharing, and ongoing enhancements to maintain a culture of excellence. • Champion Pliant Values: Embrace and live Pliant’s core values - Push It, Own It, Open Up, Be Kind, Have Fun, Be Pliant - while collaborating with peers on company-wide initiatives and fostering a positive team and department culture.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of software development experience with Java/Kotlin and Spring Boot, including 2+ years in leadership/management. • Strong background in distributed, testable, and maintainable backend systems. • Prior experience on authentication and authorization topics. • Deep understanding of REST APIs, relational databases (PostgreSQL), and microservices. • Experience leading teams, mentoring engineers, and driving best practices. • Passion for people management and developing engineering teams. • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to drive projects from concept to completion by leveraging your team’s skills. • Having worked on security related infrastructure or with third party vendors is a plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• Attractive remuneration • Your choice of preferred hardware: Windows-based laptop or MacBook Pro • 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 • Company card with a monthly allowance for lunches, coffee, etc. with co-workers