6 months ago
Base Salary
$191k - $263k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services, APIs, and high-quality frontend applications.
- Collaborate 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 production issues.
- Contribute to system architecture and hands-on coding decisions supporting reliability, security, and scalability.
- Mentor and support other engineers through reviews, guidance, and shared technical standards.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience shipping production systems or features.
- Experience building backend services with relational databases such as MySQL and microservices or service-oriented architectures.
- Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern frontend frameworks or libraries, with experience building user-facing experiences.
- Strong system design, coding, and testing skills across frontend and backend development.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with product, design, operations, data, and engineering teams.
- Experience mentoring or supporting the growth of other engineers through reviews, guidance, or leadership.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits are provided.
- 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.