6 months ago
Base Salary
$191k - $263k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build scalable backend services, APIs, and high-quality frontend applications across the stack.
- Partner with product managers, designers, and engineers to define requirements and deliver customer-focused features.
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code and participate in code reviews and technical design discussions.
- Build automated tests, monitor system performance, and troubleshoot issues in production environments.
- Contribute hands-on to system design and architectural decisions supporting reliability, security, and scalability.
- Mentor engineers and support a strong engineering culture through guidance, reviews, and shared technical ownership.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of software engineering experience shipping production systems or features.
- Experience building backend services with relational databases such as MySQL and using microservices or service-oriented architectures.
- Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern frontend frameworks or libraries.
- Solid system design, coding, and testing skills across frontend and backend development.
- Ability to collaborate with product, design, engineering, operations, and data teams.
- Experience mentoring or supporting the growth of other engineers through reviews, guidance, or leadership.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits are provided.
- Additional compensation may include equity and/or commission depending on the position offered.
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About Plaid
Plaid builds APIs and SDKs that let developers and financial institutions connect consumer bank and investment accounts, verify ownership, retrieve transactions, assess income/liabilities, fight fraud, and move money (e.g., ACH/transfer). It sells usage-based access to products like Link, Auth, Transactions, Identity, Income, Liabilities, and Payments. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, Plaid’s network spans 12,000+ financial institutions across the US, Canada, the UK, and Europe, with customers including Venmo, SoFi, and Betterment.