Plaid
Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack
$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 scalable backend services, APIs, and frontend experiences that help users connect to and manage their finances.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain backend services, APIs, and frontend applications.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to deliver reliable, secure features; contribute to system design, testing, and production troubleshooting.
- Maintain code quality and support engineering growth through reviews, mentorship, and shared technical standards.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of software engineering experience shipping production systems or features.
- Experience building backend services with relational databases such as MySQL and working with microservices or service-oriented architectures.
- Strong working knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern frontend frameworks or libraries.
- Solid system design, coding, and testing skills across frontend and backend; ability to collaborate cross-functionally and mentor engineers.
Pay
$190.8K – $262.8K USD base salary
Tools
MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
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