Plaid
Senior Software Engineer, Backend
$191K–$263K
San Francisco HQ · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted May 4, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of software engineering experience.
About the job
Designs and builds backend systems and services that help people connect to financial accounts, with responsibility for reliability, scalability, and technical quality.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain backend services; contribute to hands-on coding and architectural design.
- Collaborate with product and other stakeholders to define and deliver features; test, debug, and resolve issues.
- Mentor engineers, review technical documents and code, and uphold technical standards.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of software engineering experience and a track record of shipping successful projects.
- Experience with MySQL or other relational databases.
- Experience working with microservices.
- Strong coding, testing, and system design skills; leadership and mentoring ability.
Pay
$190.8K – $262.8K (base salary)
Tools
MySQL
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