Plaid
Senior Software Engineer, Backend
$191K–$263K
New York City Office · 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 and use financial products.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain backend services focused on performance, reliability, and scalability; contribute to architecture and hands-on coding.
- Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to define and deliver features; write and maintain automated tests and resolve issues.
- Mentor engineers, review technical documents and code changes, 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, system design, collaboration, communication, project management, and mentoring skills.
Pay
$190.8K – $262.8K (base salary)
Tools
MySQL
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