Software Engineer, Full Stack

You will work across the stack, building scalable backend services and APIs while also crafting intuitive, high-quality frontend experiences that bring those systems to life. This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy switching between backend problem-solving and frontend user experience work, and who are excited to grow their impact across both.

You will collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to ship products that are reliable, secure, and delightful to use. At Plaid, engineers take ownership early, contribute to architectural decisions, and see their work reach millions of users.

Responsibilities:

• Design & Development: Design, develop and maintain both frontend and backend components
• Majority Backend Focus (60-70%): Develop APIs and services, focusing on scalability, security and performance.
• Frontend Focus (30-40%): Build delightful experiences using modern JavaScript frameworks and libraries.
• Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, product designers 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.

• 2-4 years of experience in full-stack development.
• Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, Javascript and modern frameworks and libraries.
• Working knowledge of one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, Go, or Node.js.
• Experience MySQL or other relational databases.
• Experience working with microservices
• Experience with API design.
• Excellent coding and testing skills.
• High ownership. You are excited to roll up your sleeves and figure things out that don’t have precedent at Plaid.
• Customer empathy. You want to be face to face with customers to understand their needs and design Investments products together.

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam.