Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Plaid Plaid · Fintech · San Francisco, CA · All Cost Centers

Senior Software Engineer, Backend at Plaid, a fintech company focused on empowering financial transformation through developer tools and services. The role involves designing and building backend services, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring code quality and reliability. Requires extensive software engineering experience, microservices knowledge, and leadership/mentorship skills.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design & Development: Build and maintain backend services with a focus on performance, reliability and scalability.
  2. Collaboration: Work closely with product managers and other stakeholders to define and implement new features that meet product and customer needs.
  3. Code Quality: Write clean, maintainable and efficient code.
  4. Testing & Debugging: Develop automated tests to ensure the quality and reliability of the codebase. Troubleshoot and resolve issues.
  5. Engage in hands-on coding and architectural design, setting and maintaining high technical standards for a high performing team.

Skills

Required

  • software engineering
  • MySQL or other relational databases
  • microservices
  • coding
  • testing
  • system design
  • cross functional collaboration
  • communication
  • project management
  • leadership
  • mentorship

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years of experience with extensive experience in software engineering with a proven track record of shipping successful projects.