Plaid

Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack

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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.
Plaid

About Plaid

501-1,000 employees

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.

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