6 months ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction across Europe’s product surface area and translate product strategy into engineering roadmaps.
- Remain hands-on by owning high-leverage projects, prototyping, and addressing difficult technical problems.
- Own technical excellence through design reviews, architectural decisions, and code quality standards.
- Partner with the Engineering Manager and Product Manager on prioritization, tradeoffs, and execution.
- Coordinate with US engineering and platform teams to align European requirements and leverage shared infrastructure.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including experience serving as a technical lead on a product engineering team.
- Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or similar backend languages.
- Experience operating and scaling highly available production systems to a four-nines reliability standard.
- Demonstrated delegation skills and the ability to enable senior engineers to own technical direction.
- Strong product engineering judgment and the ability to translate product strategy into clear engineering roadmaps.
- Preferred: payments infrastructure or processing experience.
- Preferred: experience working across time zones with distributed engineering teams.
- Preferred: fintech or financial infrastructure experience in areas such as credit, lending, or identity.
- Preferred: familiarity with open banking APIs and bank connectivity patterns.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefit plan.
- Additional compensation may include equity and/or commission.
- Pay and benefits are subject to change according to applicable compensation or benefit plans.
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.