Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack

The role

You will design and build systems and experiences that power how millions of people connect to their finances. You will work across the stack, building scalable backend services and APIs and crafting frontend experiences.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs and intuitive frontend applications.
• Partner with product managers and designers to define requirements and deliver features.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• Participate in code reviews and technical design discussions.
• Build automated tests, monitor system performance, and troubleshoot issues in production.
• Engage in hands-on coding and architectural decisions.
• Support engineering culture through mentorship, reviews, and shared ownership of technical standards.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of shipping production systems or features
• Experience building backend services using relational databases such as MySQL
• Experience working with microservices or service-oriented architectures
• Strong working knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern frontend frameworks or libraries
• Solid system design, coding, and testing skills across both frontend and backend
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with product, design, and other engineering partners
• Experience mentoring or supporting the growth of other engineers through reviews, guidance, or leadership
• Comfortable working across product, operations, and data teams to deliver end-to-end solutions

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401(k)

About the company

Plaid builds tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create products. The company's network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe.