Staff Software Engineer Europe
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 will serve as the technical leader for the Europe engineering team, setting direction across its product surface while remaining hands-on. You will translate product strategy into engineering roadmaps, lead high-leverage projects, uphold architectural and code quality standards, partner with engineering and product leaders, and connect with platform teams.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Technical leadership experience on a product engineering team
- Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or similar backend languages
- Experience operating and scaling high-availability production systems
- Experience with delegation
- Product engineering experience
- Payments domain experience
- Experience working across time zones
- Fintech or financial infrastructure experience
- Familiarity with open banking APIs and bank connectivity patterns
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction across Europe's product surface area
- Translate product strategy into engineering roadmaps
- Own high-leverage technical projects
- Prototype to reduce project risk
- Set standards through design reviews and architectural decisions
- Maintain code quality
- Partner with the Engineering Manager and Product Manager
- Connect with US engineering and platform teams
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)