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
Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services, APIs, and frontend applications while collaborating with product managers, designers, and engineers. Write tested code, monitor performance, troubleshoot production issues, contribute to architecture, and mentor engineers.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Production systems or feature delivery experience
- Backend services experience with relational databases such as MySQL
- Microservices or service-oriented architecture experience
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern frontend framework experience
- Frontend and backend system design, coding, and testing skills
- Cross-functional collaboration experience
- Engineering mentorship experience
Responsibilities
- Build scalable backend services and APIs
- Develop high-quality frontend applications
- Collaborate with product managers and designers
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
- Participate in code reviews and technical design discussions
- Build automated tests
- Monitor system performance
- Troubleshoot production issues
- Contribute to architectural decisions
- Mentor engineers
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)