Staff Software Engineer Europe
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Job Summary
We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. Were dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo SoFi several of the Fortune 500 and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaids network covers 12000 financial institutions across the US Canada UK and Europe. Founded in 2013 the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York Washington D.C. London and Amsterdam.
Plaid Europe is building Plaid in Europethe open banking platform that makes international expansion one click away for fintechs who want to scale globally.
We are the only transatlantic open banking provider uniquely positioned to help fintechs scale globally with a single Plaid integration. Our team localises scales and operates the bank connectivity layer that powers payments underwriting onboarding and identityabstracting fragmented European rails and regulations into a single reliable platform.
The team owns four core pillars:
- Account-to-Account Payments
- Cash Flow & Income Insights for Credit
- Bank Connectivity Across Europe
- Consumer Experience
This team operates at the intersection of distributed systems financial infrastructure and consumer UX. We solve hard problems in payments reliability data quality regulatory complexity and cross-market expansionenabling fintechs to launch in new countries with minimal additional engineering effort.
We are a high-impact cross-functional engineering team working closely with US platform teams GTM compliance and operations to make Plaid the default open banking layer for global fintechs operating in Europe.
You will serve as the technical leader for Plaids Europe engineering team setting direction across a broad product surface area while staying hands-on in the codebase. Youll partner closely with the Engineering Manager and PM to turn product strategy into executable roadmaps and maintain a strong connection to US platform teams to keep Europe aligned with company-wide engineering investments.
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction across Europes product surface area translating product strategy into clear engineering roadmaps with crisp scoping sequencing and tradeoffs.
- Stay hands-onowning high-leverage projects spiking and prototyping to de-risk or going deep on the hardest parts of projects others own depending on the quarter.
- Own technical excellence for the teamsetting and holding a high bar through design reviews architectural decisions and code quality.
- Partner closely with the EM and PM to identify opportunities make tradeoffs and keep the team focused on the highest-leverage work.
- Maintain a strong connection to US engineering and platform teams ensuring Europes requirements shape platform decisions and the team leverages shared infrastructure rather than building in isolation.
Qualifications
- Strong programming skills in Go Python or similar backend languages.
- Experience operating and scaling high-availability systems (four 9s) in productionunderstands the reliability and correctness bar required for critical infrastructure.
- Demonstrated track record of effective delegationhas scaled their impact by enabling senior engineers to own technical direction not by doing everything themselves.
- Strong product engineering instinctcan take a product strategy and translate it into a crisp engineering roadmap with clear scoping sequencing and tradeoffs.
- Experience operating and scaling high-availability systems in production.
- Nice to have Payments domain experiencehas worked in payments infrastructure processing or a related domain.
- Nice to have Experience working across time zones with distributed engineering teams.
- Nice to have Fintech or financial infrastructure experience beyond payments (e.g. credit lending identity).
- Nice to have Familiarity with open banking APIs and bank connectivity patterns.
Our mission at Plaid is to unlock financial freedom for everyone. To support that mission we seek to build a diverse team of driven individuals who care deeply about making the financial ecosystem more equitable. We recognize that strong qualifications can come from both prior work experiences and lived experiences. We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesnt fully match the job description. We are always looking for team members that will bring something unique to Plaid!
Plaid is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race color national origin ethnicity religion or religious belief sex (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender gender identity gender expression transgender status sexual stereotypes age military or veteran status disability or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable federal state and local laws. Plaid is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance with your application or interviews due to a disability please let us know at emailprotected.
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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.
