Staff Software Engineer - Network Platform

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.

The Network Platform team is responsible for business critical systems related to managing and optimizing network traffic and data extraction to ensure efficient and reliable data access for all of Plaid's products and customers. We are responsible for developing and maintaining traffic controlling systems that handle rate limiting and traffic allocation across Plaid's APIs and services, as well as high volume data extraction systems that power the foundational data layer of Plaid’s business.

Responsibilities

• Building platform as your product: your work will impact the experience of nearly all product teams at Plaid, tens of millions of end-users, the best applications in FinTech, and major financial institutions
• Driving multi-quarter, cross-team, cross-service projects to dramatically improve the observability, reliability, cost profile, and performance of large data-heavy distributed systems
• Working with product and engineering leads to define our team's multi-year technical roadmap
• Engaging in hands-on coding and architectural design, setting and maintaining high technical standards for a high performing team
• Debugging, troubleshooting, and hardening complex distributed cloud systems
• Working with high performing and talented senior engineers on business critical systems
• Growing the team via mentorship and leadership, reviewing technical documents and code changes
  
  

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as backend engineer, having experience leading large initiatives
• 2+ years experience as a TL / major contributor on data-heavy backend teams
• Experience coaching mid and senior level engineers
• 2+ years experience leading multi-person, multi-quarter projects, experience working on platform teams and/or focusing on reliability, observability, and cost initiatives (*nice to have for this role)
• Deep knowledge and experience in AWS and K8s configuration, troubleshooting, orchestration, and monitoring (*nice to have for this role)
• Expert coding ability in Go / NodeJS / TypeScript (*nice to have for this role)
  
  

$182,520 - $297,000 a year

Target base salary for this role is between $182,520 and $297,000 per year. Additional compensation in the form(s) of equity and/or commission are dependent on the position offered. Plaid provides a comprehensive benefit plan, including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k). Pay is based on factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience and skillset, and location. Pay and benefits are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefit plans.

Our mission at Plaid is to unlock financial freedom for everyone. To support that mission, we seek to build a diverse team of driven individuals who care deeply about making the financial ecosystem more equitable. We recognize that strong qualifications can come from both prior work experiences and lived experiences. We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesn't fully match the job description. We are always looking for team members that will bring something unique to Plaid!

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