Senior Software Engineer Full Stack
Plaid is a financial data network and fintech infrastructure company that helps people securely connect financial accounts to digital financial services.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
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About Plaid Inc.
Plaid provides developer infrastructure and financial tools for account connectivity, financial data access, bank payments, identity verification, AML monitoring, credit and underwriting, and fraud prevention. Its network supports thousands of fintech companies and more than 12,000 financial institutions across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Europe.
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About the Role
You will design and build scalable backend services APIs and high quality frontend applications. You will collaborate with product managers designers and engineers to define requirements deliver features maintain code quality write automated tests monitor performance troubleshoot production issues and contribute to architectural decisions. You will also mentor engineers and support shared technical standards.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience shipping production systems or features
- Experience building backend services with MySQL or other relational databases
- Experience with microservices or service oriented architectures
- Strong knowledge of HTML CSS JavaScript and modern frontend frameworks or libraries
- Strong system design coding and testing skills across frontend and backend
- Ability to collaborate with product design operations and data teams
- Experience mentoring or supporting other engineers
Responsibilities
- Design develop and maintain scalable backend services APIs and frontend applications
- Collaborate with product managers and designers to define requirements and deliver features
- Write clean maintainable and well tested code
- Build automated tests monitor performance and troubleshoot production issues
- Contribute to system design and architectural decisions
- Mentor engineers and support technical standards
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)