Plaid - Senior Software Engineer, Backend
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Requirements
• 5+ years of experience with extensive experience in software engineering with a proven track record of shipping successful projects. • Experience with MySQL or other relational databases. • Excellent coding, testing, and system design skills. • Prior experience with cross functional collaboration, communication and project management skills. • Demonstrated leadership skills and the ability to mentor and guide junior engineers. • Ability to work with operations, product, design, and data science. • Our mission at Plaid is to unlock financial freedom for everyone. To support that mission, we seek to build a diverse team of driven individuals who care deeply about making the financial ecosystem more equitable. We recognize that strong qualifications can come from both prior work experiences and lived experiences. We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesn't fully match the job description. We are always looking for team members that will bring something unique to Plaid!
Responsibilities
• Design & Development: Build and maintain backend services with a focus on performance, reliability and scalability. • Collaboration: Work closely with product managers and other stakeholders to define and implement new features that meet product and customer needs. • Code Quality: Write clean, maintainable and efficient code. • Testing & Debugging: Develop automated tests to ensure the quality and reliability of the codebase. Troubleshoot and resolve issues. • Engage in hands-on coding and architectural design, setting and maintaining high technical standards for a high performing team. • Grow the team via mentorship and leadership, reviewing technical documents and code changes.
Benefits
• Zone 1Estimated Base Salary $190.8K – $286.8K • Offers Equity • The base salary range listed for this full-time position excludes commission (if applicable), equity and benefits. The pay range shown on each job posting is the minimum and maximum target for new-hire salaries. Actual pay may be higher or lower depending on factors like skills, experience, and relevant education or training. • We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. • Plaid’s mission is to unlock financial freedom for everyone by making money movement and access to financial data simple and secure. As a Software Engineer, you will design and build the systems that power how millions of people connect to their finances. You will work across the stack, from reliable backend services and APIs to intuitive applications that bring those systems to life. You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to ship products that make financial services more accessible and transparent. At Plaid, engineers take ownership early, grow quickly, and see their work reach millions of users.
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