Software Engineer, Backend

The role

This role sits on Plaid's engineering team, focused on the infrastructure that lets people connect their financial accounts to third-party products. The engineer works across backend services, APIs, and some user-facing application code, partnering closely with product and design to ship features.

What you would do

• Build and maintain scalable, dependable backend or full-stack services and APIs
• Partner with product, design, and engineering peers to scope and deliver customer-driven features
• Produce well-tested, readable code and take part in peer code review
• Create automated tests, watch production performance, and diagnose live issues
• Join technical design discussions and help refine team engineering practices

What they asked for

• Two to four years of professional software engineering experience after internships
• Track record of shipping dependable systems or features at meaningful scale
• Strong analytical skills for turning open-ended problems into workable designs
• Comfortable taking full ownership and working through unfamiliar, unprecedented problems
• Thrives in a quick-moving setting and collaborates well across functions
• Actively seeks feedback and continuously sharpens technical skills