Experienced Software Engineering, Plaid
Identity Verification, Fullstack
$162-243k
Infrastructure and APIs for FinTech
Job no longer available
Infrastructure and APIs for FinTech
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$162-243k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Plaid's mission is to unlock financial freedom for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of backend development experience
- Proven track record of leading, designing, and shipping projects with ambiguous requirements end to end
- Strong generalist excited to work with a variety of tools and across the entire stack
- High ownership. Must be able to step up and own their own success
- Impact driven. You understand that building the right tools and systems can impact millions of users
- Pragmatism. Someone who actively considers the fine balance between shipping speed and perfection
- Nice to have: Experience with Heroku, AWS, Elasticsearch, Ruby, or Typescript
What the job involves
- At Plaid, our Identity Verification (IDV) team is at the forefront of building innovative solutions that enhance user onboarding processes for our customers
- We're responsible for a suite of products including tools for KYC checks, AML screening, and fraud prevention
- As an engineer on the team, you will deliver highly impactful changes to our core identity verification systems and infrastructure by collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to design, plan, develop, and launch scalable solutions to grow the Identity Verification products at Plaid
- You’d be joining a team of fullstack engineers who are distributed across the US
- The team values engineers who exhibit high ownership of their work, constantly strive to make things better, sweat the details, and genuinely love the craft
- Build systems with impact: your work will touch tens of millions of end-users, the best applications in FinTech, and major financial institutions
- Lead projects to improve the reliability and system stability of our identity verification solutions as we scale
- Collaborate across teams and functions to deliver key initiatives
- Focus primarily on backend development while also addressing full stack needs when necessary
- Uphold high standards of technical craft, contributing to continuous improvement and operational excellence
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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