Responsibilities
- Support the entirety of Plaid’s engineering team to scalably enable every engineer at Plaid to make high-quality changes to the Plaid API. Doing this through: developing systems, principles, and design patterns for the evolution of Plaid’s API, including API versioning.
- Lead the development of the next-generation Plaid API platform.
- Collaborate across most customer-facing Engineering teams, Product, and Design, to ship intuitive, high-quality experiences.
- Support the growth of other engineers at Plaid through mentorship, especially on APIs.
- Serve as the technical lead for the Developer Experience area, supporting other engineers in supporting workflows like our Sandbox environment, and initiatives that help AI-first customers build agents with Plaid.
Qualifications
- 6-10+ years of engineering experience, preferably in a role where you owned an API before.
- Experience working with developer platforms, API products, or technical ecosystems.
- A passion for APIs — you care deeply about developer experience and designing for longevity, functionality, and simplicity.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills — you can clearly articulate design principles and customer understanding to other engineers, product managers, and executives.
- Empathy for developers and a track record of shipping lovable experiences.
Plaid Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Plaid and has not been reviewed or approved by Plaid.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is described as competitive to strong for many roles, with total compensation often positioned toward the high end for tech. The biggest determinants of satisfaction are framed as level, team, and the cash-versus-equity mix.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is positioned as comprehensive, with explicit support for fertility and mental health. This breadth is repeatedly emphasized as a standout part of the overall package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off is presented as flexible or “unlimited,” alongside an expectation that people take time away. Additional structures like company-wide breaks and potential sabbatical offerings are also referenced as part of time-away support.
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Plaid is used by thousands of digital financial apps and services like Betterment, Expensify, Microsoft and Venmo, and by many of the largest banks to make it easy for consumers to connect their financial accounts with the apps and services they want to use. Plaid connects with over 11,000 financial institutions across the U.S, Canada and Europe. At Plaid, we have diverse backgrounds and skills, but we're all passionate about building a more efficient and inclusive financial infrastructure—together.
