Senior Backend Engineer – Scale APIs & Lead Team

Plaid Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Plaid Inc. is hiring a Software Engineer to design and build backend services, APIs, and tools empowering millions of users to connect their financial data.

You will own features, collaborate across product, design, and data science, and help scale systems for reliability and performance. We value mentorship, cross-functional collaboration, and hands-on coding as Plaid continues to grow across the US and internationally.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with extensive experience in software engineering with a proven track record of shipping successful projects.
• Experience with MySQL or other relational databases.
• Experience working with microservices.
• Excellent coding, testing, and system design skills.
• Prior experience with cross functional collaboration, communication and project management skills.
• Demonstrated leadership skills and the ability to mentor and guide junior engineers.
• Ability to work with operations, product, design, and data science.

Responsibilities

• Design & Development: Build and maintain backend services with a focus on performance, reliability and scalability.
• Collaboration: Work closely with product managers and other stakeholders to define and implement new features that meet product and customer needs.
• Code Quality: Write clean, maintainable and efficient code.
• Testing & Debugging: Develop automated tests to ensure the quality and reliability of the codebase. Troubleshoot and resolve issues.
• Engage in hands‑on coding and architectural design, setting and maintaining high technical standards for a high performing team.
• Grow the team via mentorship and leadership, reviewing technical documents and code changes.

Skills

Backend development

MySQL

Microservices

Code quality

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

MySQL

Job description

Plaid Inc. is hiring a Software Engineer to design and build backend services, APIs, and tools empowering millions of users to connect their financial data.

You will own features, collaborate across product, design, and data science, and help scale systems for reliability and performance. We value mentorship, cross-functional collaboration, and hands-on coding as Plaid continues to grow across the US and internationally.