Plaid

Staff Software Engineer - Credit Insights

Plaid$150K — $180K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong experience building and scaling backend products
  • Strong technical leadership skills, including mentoring and driving architectural decisions
  • Demonstrated success in building and maintaining production systems for ML models
  • Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams
  • Nice-to-have: Experience in credit or lending space

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical architecture and execution of credit insights products
  • Scale architecture to handle expected ~100x increase in load
  • Collaborate with Product, Data Science, and ML teams to develop insights products
  • Mentor engineers and foster an inclusive team culture

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Additional compensation options like equity or commission
Full Job Description
The Credit Decisioning platform team is responsible for building best-in-class cashflow based insights products that enable lenders to make more holistic lending decisions and empower broader access to Credit products for prospective borrowers. We own the systems and tooling that form the platform to build and serve these insights at huge scale, partnering with our Data partners to release new products yearly.

You will be defining the future architecture of Credit insights products and executing against an ambitious product roadmap. You will partner with our Product, Data Science, and Machine Learning team to iterate on and productionize new insights that enable our customers to make more holistic lending decisions.

Responsibilities:
  • Leading technical architecture and execution across credit insights products: everything from data fetching and online feature serving for API requests, to offline production pipelines and tooling for model training.
  • Scaling and evolving the architecture through an expected ~100x increase in load from deterministic factors
  • Collaborating closely with Product, Data Science, and Machine Learning partners to develop and scale insights products that enable Credit underwriting use cases
  • Mentoring engineers and contributing to a strong, inclusive team culture.

Qualifications:
  • Strong experience building and scaling backend products
  • Strong technical leadership skills, including mentoring peers, leading projects and driving architectural decisions
  • Demonstrated success in building and maintaining production systems that serve and support ML models, both in online and offline settings - as well as working closely with data science or ML teams
  • Experience collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders and with teams and leaders across the engineering function
  • [nice-to-have] Experience working in the credit or lending space

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, candidate's 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.

About Plaid

Plaid is a financial services company based in New York City. The company builds a technology platform, which enables applications to connect with users' bank accounts. Plaid focuses on enabling consumers and businesses to interact with their bank accounts, check balances, and make payments through financial technology applications. The company was founded in 2013 by Zach Perret and William Hockey. In January 2020, Visa announced that it would acquire Plaid for $5.3 billion. The acquisition was completed in January 2021.
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Size
600 employees
Industry
Founded
2011

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