Plaid
Senior Software Engineer, Backend
$191K–$263K
Seattle Office · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 19, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of experience.
About the job
Designs and builds backend systems and services that help people connect to their financial accounts, with responsibility for reliability, scalability, and technical quality.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain reliable, performant, scalable backend services; contribute to hands-on coding and architectural design.
- Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to define and deliver features; develop automated tests and troubleshoot issues.
- Mentor engineers, review technical documents and code, and uphold high technical standards.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of software engineering experience and a proven track record of shipping successful projects.
- Experience with MySQL or other relational databases and with microservices.
- Strong coding, testing, and system design skills.
- Cross-functional collaboration and communication skills, plus leadership and mentoring ability.
Pay
$190.8K – $262.8K (base salary); Offers Equity
Tools
MySQL
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