Plaid

Senior Software Engineer – Fullstack

Plaid

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: SeattleWashingtonUnited States

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Salary

💰 $165,600 - $248,400 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Build across the stack. Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs, as well as intuitive, high-quality frontend applications that bring those systems to life.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally. Partner closely with product managers and designers to define requirements and deliver features that solve real customer problems.
  • Maintain high code quality. Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, and participate in code reviews and technical design discussions.
  • Test and debug. Build automated tests, monitor system performance, and troubleshoot issues in production environments.
  • Contribute to system design. Engage in hands-on coding and architectural decisions to ensure reliability, security, and scalability.
  • Grow the team. Support a strong engineering culture through mentorship, thoughtful reviews, and shared ownership of technical standards.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of shipping production systems or features
  • Experience building backend services using 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, with comfort building user-facing experiences
  • Solid system design, coding, and testing skills across both frontend and backend
  • Proven ability to collaborate effectively with product, design, and other engineering partners
  • Experience mentoring or supporting the growth of other engineers through reviews, guidance, or leadership
  • Comfortable working across product, operations, and data teams to deliver end-to-end solutions
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
backend servicesAPIsrelational databasesMySQLmicroservicesHTMLCSSJavaScriptfrontend frameworkssystem design
Soft Skills
collaborationmentorshipcode reviewsproblem-solvingcommunicationleadershipteamworkguidanceownershipengineering culture