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Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack

Plaid· Engineering
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New York City$190.8k - $262.8kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Senior full‑stack engineer at Plaid responsible for building scalable backend services and APIs along with intuitive frontend experiences, collaborating with product, design, and other engineers to ship reliable and secure products used by millions of users.

Responsibilities

  • Build across the stack. Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs, as well as intuitive, high-quality frontend applications that bring those systems to life.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally. Partner closely with product managers and designers to define requirements and deliver features that solve real customer problems.
  • Maintain high code quality. Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, and participate in code reviews and technical design discussions.
  • Test and debug. Build automated tests, monitor system performance, and troubleshoot issues in production environments.
  • Contribute to system design. Engage in hands-on coding and architectural decisions to ensure reliability, security, and scalability.
  • Grow the team. Support a strong engineering culture through mentorship, thoughtful reviews, and shared ownership of technical standards.

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, and working with microservices or service-oriented architectures
  • Strong working knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern frontend frameworks or libraries, with comfort building user-facing experiences
  • 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

Skills

Required:Software engineeringBackend servicesFrontend developmentSystem designCollaborationCross-functional delivery
Nice to have:Mentoring

Benefits

  • Plaid provides a comprehensive benefit plan, including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).
  • Additional compensation in the form(s) of equity and/or commission are dependent on the position offered.
  • Pay is based on factors such as scope and responsibilities, candidate's work experience and skillset, and location.
  • Pay and benefits are subject to change at any time, consistent with applicable compensation or benefit plans.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Plaid

Enabling all companies to build fintech solutions

Plaid helps all companies build fintech solutions by making it easy, safe and reliable for people to connect their financial data to apps and services.

fintechbankingpaymentsfraudcreditopen financefinancial data
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