Experienced Software Engineer, Plaid
Online Storage
$182.5-297k
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
$182.5-297k
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
- 4 + years of dedicated backend or platform experience
- 4+ years of specialization in storage technologies
- 8+ years of experience total
- Deployment and orchestration of DBs at scale
- Deep technical background in performance optimization for DBs (preferably SQL DBs)
- Background in storage platform design
- Infrastructure background (Terraform, AWS)
- Database background (TiDB, MySQL, MongoDB)
- Experience building custom CLI tooling and dynamic runbooks to automate your procedures
- [Nice to have] Interest in future developments and optimizations in data storage technology
- [Nice to have] Golang and Typescript proficiency
- [Nice to have] Background with security best practices
What the job involves
- We build the storage layer backing Plaid’s Core Data Models used by all of engineering
- The goal is to improve Plaid’s storage systems to be more reliable, scalable, performant, and efficient
- As an engineer on the storage team, you will have the opportunity to influence the strategy of the team and design, deploy, and scale the online storage platform at Plaid
- You will build tools to improve operation automations. You will optimize query performance and infrastructure cost
- You will wield terraform and cloud resources with confidence and certainty
- You will partner with our stakeholder teams to understand their current storage and future storage requirements
- You will improve the user experience that partner teams have interacting with the storage platform
- Large dataset and high throughput scalability
- Designing resilient, distributed systems
- Handling ambiguity of challenging open world problems
- Fixing difficult issues in storage engines by understanding their inner workings, potentially diving into source code
- Meticulous and reliability-focused migrations
- Saving product engineers days and weeks of effort through our storage foundation’s capabilities
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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