Plaid · 3 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer - Product Foundations
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$203K/yr - $330K/yr
8+ years expPlaid is a company focused on powering user recognition and financial data insights for major companies like Google and Meta. The Staff Software Engineer will design and build backend data systems to enhance user financial data querying, lead impactful projects, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to support feature development and analytics.
BankingFinancial ServicesFinTech
Responsibilities
Design and build backend data systems that make it possible to query a user’s complete financial life (Plaid users, accounts, and transactions, identity) at scale. You will develop and maintain graph-based infrastructure for identity resolution and entity mapping
Lead high-impact projects from design through execution: your work will touch tens of millions of end-users, the best applications in fintech, and major financial institutions. You will deliver APs and datasets that power fraud detection, credit decisioning, and personal finance insights
Work on both the 0 to 1 stage and the 1 to n stage of problems
Collaborate with data science, machine learning, legal and product teams to support feature development and analytics
Establish best practices for data quality, performance, reliability and explainability
Contribute to the team’s technical roadmap and strategy, mentor engineers, and help grow a culture of excellence
Qualification
Required
8+ years of software engineering experience, including backend system design and data infrastructure
Proven experience designing and maintaining distributed systems at scale
Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or similar backend languages
Experience working with data platforms (e.g., Redshift, Kafka, Airflow, DBT, or equivalent)
Familiarity with data modeling and lifecycle challenges
Strong communication and collaboration skills with cross-functional partners
Preferred
Experience with graph databases or graph-based data modeling
Exposure to ML infrastructure or support systems (e.g., feature stores, batch/stream data)
Understanding of data privacy, data access restrictions, or legal compliance in data systems
Prior experience mentoring or leading technical direction for other engineers
Experience defining the roadmap of an ambiguous technical area
Benefits
Medical
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401(k)
Company
Plaid
Plaid develops financial technology infrastructure that enables applications to connect with users' bank accounts and financial data.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.31BKey Investors
Franklin TempletonAltimeter CapitalGoldman Sachs Investment Partners
2025-04-03Series Unknown· $575M
2025-04-03Secondary Market
2023-10-19Series Unknown
Leadership Team
Zachary Perret
Co-Founder & CEO
Eric Sager
COO
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