2 months ago
Base Salary
$191k - $263k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate internal tools and platform capabilities for high-leverage non-engineering workflows.
- Translate ambiguous internal pain points into simple, durable software products.
- Define safe and maintainable platform constraints for authentication, runtimes, storage, deployment, and maintenance.
- Use product judgment to determine appropriate boundaries between Retool, Scaffold, and new AI-native internal tooling.
- Partner with Security, Infrastructure, and internal stakeholders to ship reliable production systems.
- Own systems end-to-end through implementation, rollout, support, and iterative improvement.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong experience building and operating production systems.
- Experience building internal tools, platforms, or workflow software.
- Strong product judgment and communication in ambiguous environments.
- Hands-on experience using AI-powered development tools, agents, or automation.
- Comfort creating the first version of a product surface without a clear industry template.
- Preferred experience with developer tooling, internal platforms, or infrastructure-adjacent systems.
- Preferred experience with authentication, service accounts, constrained runtimes, or internal security boundaries.
- Preferred experience building products for non-engineering users.
- Preferred exposure to agentic workflows, automation, or AI-enabled internal applications.
Benefits
- Plaid provides a comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits plan.
- Additional compensation may include equity and/or commission depending on the position offered.
About Plaid
Plaid is a data network that powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. Plaid works with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, and Betterment, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers more than 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company was founded in 2013 by Zach Perret and William Hockey.