Senior Software Engineer, Plaid
ML Infrastructure
$180-270k
2 days a week in office
Infrastructure and APIs for FinTech
Open for applications
Infrastructure and APIs for FinTech
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$180-270k
2 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Plaid's mission is to unlock financial freedom for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of industry experience as a software engineer, with strong focus on ML/AI infrastructure or large-scale distributed systems
- Hands-on expertise in building and operating ML platforms (e.g., feature stores, data pipelines, training/inference frameworks)
- Proven experience delivering reliable and scalable infrastructure in production
- Solid understanding of ML Ops concepts and tooling, as well as best practices for observability, security, and reliability
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams
- [Nice to have] Experience with ML Ops tools such as MLFlow, SageMaker, or model registries
- [Nice to have] Exposure to modern AI infrastructure environments (LLMs, real-time inference, agentic models)
- [Nice to have] Background in scaling ML infrastructure in fast-paced product environments
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer on the Machine Learning Infrastructure team, you will design, build, and operate the systems that power machine learning across Plaid
- You will apply your deep technical expertise to create scalable, reliable, and secure ML platforms, and collaborate closely with ML product teams to accelerate the delivery of ML & AI-powered products
- This is a highly technical, hands-on role where you’ll contribute to core infrastructure, influence architectural direction, and mentor peers while helping to define the “golden path” for ML development and deployment at Plaid
- Design and implement large-scale ML infrastructure, including feature stores, pipelines, deployment tooling, and inference systems
- Drive the rollout of Plaid’s next-generation feature store to improve reliability and velocity of model development
- Help define and evangelize an ML Ops “golden path” for secure, scalable model training, deployment, and monitoring
- Ensure operational excellence of ML pipelines and services, including reliability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency
- Collaborate with ML product teams to understand requirements and deliver solutions that accelerate experimentation and iteration
- Contribute to technical strategy and architecture discussions within the team
- Mentor and support other engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and technical guidance
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.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2025
$575m
LATE VC
Apr 2021
$425m
SERIES D
Total funding: $1.3bn
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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