Plaid

Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack

Plaid
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4 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.
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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