2 months ago
Base Salary
$191k - $263k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services, APIs, and frontend applications across the stack.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to define requirements and deliver customer-focused features.
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code; participate in code reviews and technical design discussions.
- Build automated tests, monitor system performance, and troubleshoot production issues.
- Contribute to system architecture and hands-on decisions supporting reliability, security, and scalability.
- Mentor and support other engineers while contributing to engineering culture and technical standards.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of shipping production systems or features.
- Experience building backend services with relational databases such as MySQL and working with microservices or service-oriented architectures.
- Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern frontend frameworks or libraries, with experience building user-facing experiences.
- Solid system design, coding, and testing skills across frontend and backend development.
- Ability to collaborate with product, design, engineering, operations, and data teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
- Experience mentoring or supporting the growth of other engineers through reviews, guidance, or leadership.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits.
- Equity and/or commission may be provided depending on the position offered.
- Plaid is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and reasonable accommodations.
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.