Experienced Software Engineer, Plaid
Network Platform
$182.5-297k
Data network powering the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life
Job no longer available
Data network powering the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$182.5-297k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unlock financial freedom for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience as backend engineer, having experience leading large initiatives
- 2+ years experience as a TL / major contributor on data-heavy backend teams
- Experience coaching mid and senior level engineers
- 2+ years experience leading multi-person, multi-quarter projects, experience working on platform teams and/or focusing on reliability, observability, and cost initiatives (*nice to have for this role)
- Deep knowledge and experience in AWS and K8s configuration, troubleshooting, orchestration, and monitoring (*nice to have for this role)
- Expert coding ability in Go / NodeJS / TypeScript (*nice to have for this role)
What the job involves
- The Network Platform team is responsible for business critical systems related to managing and optimizing network traffic and data extraction to ensure efficient and reliable data access for all of Plaid's products and customers
- We are responsible for developing and maintaining traffic controlling systems that handle rate limiting and traffic allocation across Plaid's APIs and services, as well as high volume data extraction systems that power the foundational data layer of Plaid’s business
- Building platform as your product: your work will impact the experience of nearly all product teams at Plaid, tens of millions of end-users, the best applications in FinTech, and major financial institutions
- Driving multi-quarter, cross-team, cross-service projects to dramatically improve the observability, reliability, cost profile, and performance of large data-heavy distributed systems
- Working with product and engineering leads to define our team's multi-year technical roadmap
- Engaging in hands-on coding and architectural design, setting and maintaining high technical standards for a high performing team
- Debugging, troubleshooting, and hardening complex distributed cloud systems
- Working with high performing and talented senior engineers on business critical systems
- Growing the team via mentorship and leadership, reviewing technical documents and code changes
Our take
Plaid builds infrastructure that allows consumers 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 over 12,000 financial institutions in the US, Canada, the UK and Europe. And 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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2025
$575m
LATE VC
Apr 2021
$425m
SERIES D
Total funding: $1.3bn
Company benefits
- Vibrant offices in SF, NYC, and Raleigh-Durham—with catered meals, happy hours, and clubs to keep you connected
- Competitive pay, comprehensive health benefits, and support for fertility, mental health, and parental leave
- Lifestyle perks including home office stipends, daycare support, and commuting benefits like CitiBike and Lyft
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Zach Perret
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously, Zach was a Consultant at Bain and a Research Fellow and Trustee at Duke before co-founding Plaid ion 2012.
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