Plaid

Implementation Engineer

Plaid
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2 hours ago
London, United KingdomMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Own customer integrations from contract signature through production launch, including plans, milestones, and exit criteria.
  • Provide scheduled implementation support and targeted debugging engagements.
  • Lead technical onboarding for existing customers adopting new products, use cases, or markets.
  • Debug integration issues with customer engineers across APIs, SDKs, OAuth redirects, and webhooks.
  • Validate sandbox implementations and conduct go-live readiness checks.
  • Use Plaid data to diagnose integration and conversion problems proactively.
  • Produce written handovers for Account Management and maintain reusable implementation resources.
  • Escalate recurring integration failures to Product and Engineering with evidence-based patterns.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience in a customer-facing technical role such as implementation, integration, solutions, or technical account management, ideally at an API platform.
  • Hands-on experience with REST APIs, OAuth, webhooks, JSON, and web and mobile SDKs.
  • Experience with Postman or curl and the ability to critically read API documentation.
  • Experience with SQL or other data-querying tools.
  • Track record of owning technical projects end to end with deadlines and direct relationships with customer engineers.
  • Clear written communication skills for plans, handovers, and customer updates.
  • Ability to work independently in a small regional team alongside a globally distributed function.
  • Preferred knowledge of UK Open Banking, PSD2/PSD3, AIS/PIS, and VRP.
  • Preferred domain experience in payments, identity verification, credit, or underwriting.
  • A formal technical background, prior software engineering experience, mobile integration experience, or fluency in a second European language is preferred.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits are provided.
  • Additional compensation may include equity and/or commission, depending on the position offered.

Tech Stack

PostmanSQL

Categories

Solutions Engineering
Plaid

About Plaid

5,001-10,000 employees

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.

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