Software Engineer, Plaid
Web
$114.5-157.7k
Infrastructure and APIs for FinTech
Open for applications
Infrastructure and APIs for FinTech
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$114.5-157.7k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Plaid's mission is to unlock financial freedom for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of experience as a front-end engineer or web developer on highly interactive experiences
- High attention to detail and strong design sense
- Experience in both static and server-side websites
- Experience with Javascript, React, or other modern UI frameworks/libraries
- Proficiency with cloud infrastructure, such as AWS or similar
- Familiarity with design systems and component-based web design
What the job involves
- The Web team at Plaid is a highly cross-functional group across Engineering, Product, Design, and Marketing that is responsible for developing and maintaining our website, which is central to our brand and Growth strategies
- We are embarking on an exciting journey to reimagine our site and transform how we connect with customers, showcase our products, and communicate our story
- The transformation is happening at all levels as we re-evaluate both the technical platform and customer experience we’ve built
- As an engineer on our Web team, you’ll play a central role in reshaping our brand with deeply engaging, interactive and impactful web pages
- You’ll have the opportunity to lead development on full pages and contribute to more templatized pages that are published via our CMS
- You’ll achieve this alongside a team of engineers who value impact, user delight, and quality
- Contribute to component and page development for plaid.com; championing performance, availability, reliability, accessibility and user delight
- Refine our internal publishing workflows for pages built within a CMS
- Collaborate closely with Marketing, Design, and Product to take web experience from design to production
Our take
Plaid builds infrastructure that allows a consumer to interact with their bank account on the web through a number of third-party applications, like Venmo, Robinhood, Coinbase, Acorns and LendingClub.
Plaid has integrated with 12,000 financial institutions in the US, Canada, the UK and Europe. About a quarter of people living in North America with bank accounts have linked with Plaid through at least one of the hundreds of apps that leverage Plaid’s application program interfaces (APIs). The platform allows companies to create financial services applications without having to hire their own team of engineers to build out a tool that connects apps to its users’ bank accounts.
This is very valuable in a world where there are increasing number of fintechs, so the demand for Plaid's services are only going to grow. Despite its strong position, it has not been immune to the difficult global economic situtation and was forced to restructure at the end of 2022, laying off some of its workforce. However it is still experiencing growth and is well-positioned to weather the current economic uncertainty.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2021
$425m
SERIES D
Dec 2018
$250m
SERIES C
Total funding: $734.3m
Company benefits
- Monthly wellness stipend (gym on us)
- We offer breakfast, lunch, and dinner to keep you well-fed and healthy (when working from the office)
- From medical, life, dental and pension schemes, we’re here to support your physical, mental, and financial wellbeing
- We want everyone to feel ownership over their work - literally, which is why we offer equity to full-time Plaids
- Every Plaid is in control of their career development with our learning stipends, tools, and trainings
- We give Plaids the freedom and flexibility to choose where they work - whether that is in a Plaid office, at home in any supported location, or a mix of both!
- Two weeks of synchronous, company-wide vacation
- We want to make sure you have time to meet your personal needs with unlimited PTO
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Zach Perret
(CEO)He was a Consultant at Bain and previously a Research Fellow and Trustee at Duke before co-founding Plaid
William Hockey
(Board Director)He was previously an associate at Bain and has since moved on from Plaid to become Co-CEO at Column
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