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We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few yearsWe’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own productsPlaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial lifeWe work with thousands of companies like venmo and 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 usePlaid’s network covers 11,000 financial institutions across the us, canada, uk and europeFounded in 2013, the company is headquartered in san francisco with offices in new york, salt lake city, washington d.c., london and amsterdam.
We are looking for a backend engineer to join our developer efficiency teamWe empower the plaid engineering teams with tools and processes, spanning from local development, testing, and deployment.
We`re guided by our principles, including impact, growing together, embracing openness and positivity, and inventing tomorrow; we`re looking for people motivated by those same principles.
Apply if you enjoy cross-collaboration and want to be part of building new tools and processes to work more efficiently.
What excites you
Empowering engineering by building libraries, tools, and processes
Creating high quality shared abstractionsYou`re not just building to solve today`s problem, but building a foundation for the next 6~24 months of the company
Building tools that you’ll be your own user
Building tools that you’ll be your own userFor example the team is responsible for the local development environment that all of the engineering (including us) uses
You like efficiency; and you are willing to invest time and effort to have repeatable efficient process rather than doing an one-off work
What excites us
2-5 years of production experience
Strong core fundamentals and a command of at least one language among python/typescript/goWe are building language-idiomatic libraries for all three of the plaid`s supported language runtimes
Running and maintaining ci/cd systems, such as jenkins, circleciWe`re reaching scalability and usability limits with our current system and is planning to build the next-generation of the systems to power the next years of plaid`s growth
Experience with product development
Grpc or other service-to-service communication protocol
Nice to have: experience with product development
Plaid is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our companyWe do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, ethnicity, religion or religious belief, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, military or veteran status, disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristicsWe also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local lawsPlaid is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting processIf you need any assistance with your application or interviews due to a disability, please let us know at accommodations@plaid.com.
