Software Engineer Intelligent Tooling
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Job Location:
New York City, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Plaid is evolving into an AI-first company and Intelligent Tooling sits at the center of that transformation. The Intelligent Tooling team is being built from the ground up and our mission is to establish the technical foundations operating model and internal platforms that embed AI deeply into Plaids coding tools internal systems and the entire software development we are successful engineers across Plaid will delegate lower-leverage work to AI agents move faster with confidence and spend more of their time designing and inventing for customers. Intelligent Tooling owns the platforms and systems that make this possible - from AI coding integrations and SDLC agents to the internal tools that power Plaids operations.
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Intelligent Tooling team you will build and operate internal systems that directly impact how engineers across Plaid do their work. This is a hands-on role with significant ownership where success is measured by real adoption reliability and improvements to developer experience.
You will work on AI-powered tooling internal platforms and developer workflows collaborating closely with other engineers and cross-functional partners to ship durable high-leverage systems.
Responsibilities
- Design build and operate internal tools and services used by Plaids engineers.
- Integrate AI-powered tools and workflows into core engineering processes.
- Improve reliability usability and performance of existing internal platforms.
- Own systems end-to-end including production support and iterative improvement.
- Collaborate with teammates and stakeholders to deliver practical high-impact solutions.
Qualifications
- 5 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Experience building and operating production systems.
- Hands-on experience using AI-powered developer tools.
- Strong problem-solving and collaboration skills.
- Nice to have Experience with developer tooling internal platforms or infrastructure.
- Nice to have Exposure developing AI systems automation or agentic workflows.
- Nice to have Familiarity with CI/CD cloud infrastructure or observability tooling.
- Nice to have Strong interest and excitement in leveraging AI to meaningfully improve developer productivity and engineering velocity for a broader engineering organization.
$180000 - $270000 a year
The target base salary for this position ranges from $180000/year to $270000/year in Zone 1. The target base salary will vary based on the jobs location.
Our geographic zones are as follows:
Zone 1 - New York City and San Francisco Bay Area
Zone 2 - Los Angeles Seattle Washington D.C.
Zone 3 - Austin Boston Denver Houston Portland Sacramento San Diego
Zone 4 - Raleigh-Durham and all other US cities
Additional compensation in the form(s) of equity and/or commission are dependent on the position offered. Plaid provides a comprehensive benefit plan including medical dental vision and 401(k). Pay is based on factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position candidates work experience and skillset and location. Pay and benefits are subject to change at any time consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefit plans.
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Spring
- .NET
- C/C++
- Go
- React
- OOP
- C#
- Data Structures
- JavaScript
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Plaid helps all companies build fintech solutions by making it easy, safe and reliable for people to connect their financial data to apps and services.
