Senior Software Engineer, Plaid
Python Tooling & Developer Infrastructure
$180-270k
1-5 days a week in office
Infrastructure and APIs for FinTech
Be an early applicant
Infrastructure and APIs for FinTech
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$180-270k
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
- 3+ years in platform or infrastructure engineering focused on Python
- Hands-on experience maintaining Python at scale, especially in multi-tenant monorepos
- Strong understanding of Python packaging, dependency management, and best practices for shared library development
- Experience designing developer tooling and standardised developer workflows
- Strong cross-functional communication skills
Desirable
- Familiarity with Go and infrastructure tooling (Docker, Terraform, AWS)
- Contributions to the Python open-source ecosystem (PyPA, packaging, PEPs, etc.)
- Familiarity with ML/AI development workflows and the tooling that supports them
- Experience with monorepo management tools such as Bazel or Pants
What the job involves
- We build and maintain the foundational tools and infrastructure that power Plaid’s engineering velocity. Our mission is to eliminate developer friction, ensure system reliability, and empower product and ML engineers to ship faster with confidence
- As a Python Infrastructure engineer on the Developer Efficiency team, you will drive critical improvements to the tools and workflows that power Plaid’s Python development ecosystem. You will lead initiatives to simplify, standardize, and scale how Python code is authored, built, tested, and released
- Improve Plaid’s Python monorepo by contributing to workflows and best practices that boost developer velocity and code quality
- Build and maintain developer tools that standardize how Python code is authored, tested, and released
- Improve and operate a fast and reliable CI pipeline that scales with the monorepo
- Create zero-setup, on-demand development environments to accelerate onboarding and streamline engineers’ day-to-day workflows
- Work with product, infrastructure, and ML engineers to identify friction points and deliver pragmatic, reusable improvements to the developer experience
- Collaborate with the broader Platform team to deliver secure, maintainable, and intuitive infrastructure that supports Plaid’s growth
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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