Staff Software Engineer Protect
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 set technical direction for real time fraud scoring and fraud attributes. You will lead complex initiatives while writing production code investigating data debugging systems building prototypes and developing product integrations that turn validated fraud insights into reliable customer solutions.
Requirements
- Typically 8+ years of experience building and operating backend or distributed systems at scale
- Comfort working hands on in a codebase
- Strong product judgment and ability to translate ambiguous problems into deliverables
- Ability to balance rapid validation with durable architecture
- Experience building data or API products is desirable
- Fraud domain experience is desirable
- Interest in agentic systems is desirable
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction for real time fraud systems
- Lead ambiguous multi quarter initiatives
- Build prototypes and production systems for fraud detection
- Investigate data and debug production systems
- Collaborate with data science machine learning product and fraud researchers
- Develop APIs integrations and product modules
- Provide hands on technical mentorship
- Automate engineering workflows
Benefits
- Equity compensation
- Commission compensation
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)
