Software Engineer - Backend at Plaid
San francisco, CA
Full-time
3+ years
About Plaid

Plaid empowers developers and consumers to control their financial data. That mission still motivates us as we work to lower the barrier to entry into financial services.

Plaid has helped tens of thousands of applications—like Stripe, Coinbase, Venmo, Capital One, and charity: we build secure and user-friendly experiences that empower consumers to use their financial data in new ways. In the last year alone, we connected more than 20 million accounts—and we’re just getting started.

At Plaid, we have diverse backgrounds and skills, but we're all passionate about building a more efficient and inclusive financial infrastructure—together.

About the role

We believe that the way consumers and businesses interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. Plaid's goal is to enable this shift by building the tools and infrastructure that allow developers to create the next generation of financial services applications. As a software engineer at Plaid, you'll be essential in building and scaling the APIs that help us all achieve this vision.

We’re architected around decoupled services. You could be working on our internal distributed systems framework that holds them all together, or building out the newest version of our API. Most of our back-end core systems are written in Go, but that's not a prerequisite. We pick the right tool for the job and have systems in Go, Node.js, Python, and Scala.

What excites us Production experience, core fundamentals, and a mastery 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 strong track record of building interesting projects Product mindset. You understand that building the right tools and systems can impact millions of users Hacker mentality. Many of our projects are truly full-stack, and you might have to move from front-end to sysadmin at a moment's notice Experience writing test-driven software for a startup or large tech company is a plus

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Technology

We believe that the key to solving finance’s biggest problems lies in meeting modern user expectations. As the gateway for thousands of applications like Robinhood, Stripe, or Venmo, Plaid’s platform calls for innovative problem solvers interested in tackling the complex challenges that exist in the financial ecosystem and scaling developer and user-facing systems to millions of users.

Most of our back-end core systems are written in Go, but that's not a prerequisite. We pick the right tool for the job and have systems in Go, Node.js, Python, Javascript, and Scala.

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