Experienced Software Engineer, Plaid
Classic Access
$162-243k
+ Equity
Infrastructure and APIs for FinTech
Job no longer available
Infrastructure and APIs for FinTech
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$162-243k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
Plaid's mission is to unlock financial freedom for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 5 to 8 years of production experience, core fundamentals, and a strong command of at least one language
- Someone who actively considers the fine balance between shipping speed and perfection
- Background in computer science, engineering, or another related field and a track record of building interesting projects
- Impact driven. You understand that building the right tools and systems can impact millions of users
- Adaptability. Most of our engineers work across the entire stack, touching everything from the front-end, mobile, and our core infrastructure
- Developer tooling. You have experience building automation and tooling to eliminate classes of issues and enable other developers to move faster
What the job involves
- The Classic Access team at Plaid is responsible for preserving data access and improving integration uptime, coverage, and product data quality with 10k+ financial institutions across North America
- We build automation and developer tooling to enable our operations engineers (partner team) to build and maintain data integrations at scale, monitor and manage the health of these integrations, and improve product data quality
- We also directly support high profile integrations ourselves as part of our oncall rotations
- As a software engineer on the team, you are responsible for the core integrations with our financial institution partners, automation and tooling to build and maintain these integrations, and the framework on which they run
- This is the most mission-critical component of our infrastructure as it connects many-millions of bank accounts and billions of transactions to Plaid
- Work with stakeholders, product, and across teams to contribute to the technical+product strategy and roadmap. Ideate opportunities, identify challenges, and advocate for high impact projects. Ensure the roadmap aligns with org and company-wide strategies
- Support or lead projects to build automation or scalable tooling to improve the uptime and product data quality (transactions & liabilities) of existing integrations and increase the coverage of financial institutions supported
- Build new and maintain existing integrations with financial institutions so that end users can connect their accounts with Plaid customers
- Grow and mentor other engineers. Provide consistent, high quality peer feedback. Work with your manager to identify opportunities for peer growth
- Provide consistent, high quality feedback on technical and product design documents and code reviews that incorporates industry best practices and fosters a high bar of engineering maturity
- Be a trusted member of the oncall rotation. Ideate and advocate for technical and process changes, following operational best practices, to increase system reliability
- We're guided by our principles, including impact, know your customer, grow together, HEART (humility, energy, ambition, resilience, teamwork). We are looking for leaders who are motivated by those same principles
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Plaid builds infrastructure that allows a consumer to interact with their bank account on the web through a number of third-party applications, like Venmo, Robinhood, Coinbase, Acorns and LendingClub.
Plaid has integrated with 12,000 financial institutions in the US, Canada, the UK and Europe. About a quarter of people living in North America with bank accounts have linked with Plaid through at least one of the hundreds of apps that leverage Plaid’s application program interfaces (APIs). The platform allows companies to create financial services applications without having to hire their own team of engineers to build out a tool that connects apps to its users’ bank accounts.
This is very valuable in a world where there are increasing number of fintechs, so the demand for Plaid's services are only going to grow. Despite its strong position, it has not been immune to the difficult global economic situtation and was forced to restructure at the end of 2022, laying off some of its workforce. However it is still experiencing growth and is well-positioned to weather the current economic uncertainty.
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
40% female employees
-15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"Lots of opportunities to grow within your space, the teams in Plaid Europe are small which means you are getting exposure to areas you may not in..."
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2021
$425m
SERIES D
Dec 2018
$250m
SERIES C
Total funding: $734.3m
Company benefits
- Monthly wellness stipend (gym on us)
- We offer breakfast, lunch, and dinner to keep you well-fed and healthy (when working from the office)
- From medical, life, dental and pension schemes, we’re here to support your physical, mental, and financial wellbeing
- We want everyone to feel ownership over their work - literally, which is why we offer equity to full-time Plaids
- Every Plaid is in control of their career development with our learning stipends, tools, and trainings
- We give Plaids the freedom and flexibility to choose where they work - whether that is in a Plaid office, at home in any supported location, or a mix of both!
- Two weeks of synchronous, company-wide vacation
- We want to make sure you have time to meet your personal needs with unlimited PTO
Company values
- Impact - We are building a company in order to create outcomes for consumers, and for our customers. The work we do is focused on creating extraordinary results for both. We choose what we work on and measure ourselves by the lasting impact created.
- Grow, together - We constantly strive to learn and improve — as individuals, as a team, and as a company. We foster a culture of feedback, delivered frequently and empathetically. We are each responsible for our own growth, and for the growth of those around us.
- Embrace openness and positivity - These characteristics play an important role in how we interact with each other, and how we represent ourselves to the world. We are intentional with our openness (or clear when we cannot be), and we approach our relationships and challenges with optimism.
- Think rigorously; act with urgency - We work diligently to make sound decisions — but we also recognise that speed matters. We move with urgency to bring our work to the world.
- Make it better - Each of us is an owner of Plaid. We are committed to continuous improvement and leaving things better than we found them. It is not perfection we seek, but valuable, pragmatic improvements to our products, our company, and our craft.
- Consumer outcomes via customer love - Plaid exists to improve outcomes for consumers. The primary way we achieve this is through the love and loyalty of our customers. We work with and through our customers, always with the best interest of the consumer in mind
- Invent tomorrow - We think big and take responsibility for creating the financial ecosystem we want to exist. We don’t wait to see what the future will bring; we create it ourselves
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Founders
Zach Perret
(CEO)He was a Consultant at Bain and previously a Research Fellow and Trustee at Duke before co-founding Plaid
William Hockey
(Board Director)He was previously an associate at Bain and has since moved on from Plaid to become Co-CEO at Column
Diversity & Inclusion at Plaid
Andrea Cruz (DEIB Program Manager)
- We are promoting equity by continuing to build employee programs to attract and keep talent growing and thriving at Plaid.
- We foster inclusion by offering annual DEIB education.
- We are building belonging with our four Plaid Community Groups: Plaids of Colour, Plaids of Faith, PLGBTQ+ and Women+.
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