Senior Software Engineer Full Stack
Plaid is a financial technology company providing APIs and network connectivity for businesses to build financial products. Its platform supports bank-account linking, financial data access, identity verification, fraud and risk tools, credit underwriting, and bank payments.
Maintainer signals as of 8/12/2026
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About Plaid
Plaid operates a financial data network and API platform that lets businesses connect to financial institutions and build financial experiences. Its products support account and identity verification, real-time balance and transaction data, investment and liability data, income and underwriting workflows, fraud and AML risk checks, and multi-rail bank payments. It serves developers, businesses, financial institutions, platforms, lenders, banks, and consumer-facing financial-product providers.
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About the Role
You design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services, APIs, and high-quality frontend applications. You collaborate with product managers and designers, write tested code, monitor performance, troubleshoot production issues, contribute to system 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)