Experienced Software Engineer, Plaid
Credit
$202.8-330k
1-5 days a week in office
Infrastructure and APIs for FinTech
Open for applications
Infrastructure and APIs for FinTech
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$202.8-330k
1-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Plaid's mission is to unlock financial freedom for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Excellent coding and testing skills
- Experience designing and implementing large scale backend systems
- Experience as a project lead, owning work end-to-end for 2+ quarters
- [Very-nice-to-have] strong communication skills
- [Nice-to-have] Experience working in the Credit/Lending space
- [Nice-to-have] Experience with Python, Golang, SQL, and/or AWS
What the job involves
- The CRA Foundations Team (CRAFT) is responsible for architecting the platform for Plaid’s CRA entity. This team works closely with cross-functional partners (e.g. Product, Legal) to think through future CRA product requirements and compliance constraints, translating those inputs into the scalable platform from which CRA products can be launched
- You will be responsible for working full-stack to plan, design, and build the next generation of Credit products.
- You’ll work closely with cross-functional partners from Product, Legal, and Design to deliver new solutions for our Clients
- You’ll have opportunities to learn new technologies and languages, and to be a project owner as we explore ambiguous problem spaces
- You will work closely with a highly iterative, cross-functional team to understand product requirements and legal constraints to build next-generation Credit products
- You will deeply understand Client needs and architect solutions tailored to their use cases
- You’ll partner with other teams within the Credit group, working closely with other engineering teams as well as Design, Data Science, and more to iterate on and productionize new products
- You’ll have the opportunity to architect efficient, scalable services paired with well-designed UI as we work closely with our Clients
- You’ll own and lead projects, step up as a trusted member of the team’s oncall rotation, advocate for technical and process changes, and follow best practices to increase overall system reliability
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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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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