Staff Software Engineer Credit Insights
Plaid is a financial technology company providing APIs and network connectivity for businesses to build financial products.
Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026
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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 will define the architecture for credit insights products and execute the product roadmap. You will build systems for data fetching online feature serving offline pipelines and model training while partnering with product data science and machine learning specialists to scale production insights.
Requirements
- Strong experience building and scaling backend products
- Strong technical leadership including mentoring and project leadership
- Experience maintaining production systems that serve ML models online and offline
- Experience collaborating with cross functional stakeholders
- Experience in credit or lending is desirable
Responsibilities
- Lead technical architecture and execution for credit insights products
- Build data fetching and online feature serving systems
- Develop offline production pipelines and model training tools
- Scale architecture for increased load
- Collaborate with product data science and machine learning partners
- Mentor engineers
Benefits
- Equity compensation
- Commission compensation
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)
